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How to make your email address as hard to guess as your password

03

Sep

2014

The attack vectors were seeing most often involve figuring out some public piece of data about you and then parlaying that into some social engineering (or clever password recovery) to get to your data. Unfortunately, the same trick doesnt work if you use Outlook or Yahoo, but you can go through a more convoluted process […]

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Hackers Trick Facebook Users into Self Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Scam

28

Jul

2014

Under the pretext of providing a method to hack into any Facebook account, cybercriminals incite unsuspecting users into pasting malicious code into their web browser. This scam is relied on social engineering, because all the scammer has to do is convince the user to follow a short list of steps that ends with pasting a […]

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Facebook Scam Redirects to Fake YouTube Page

22

Jul

2014

A dangerous scam has been found to circulate on Facebook, using more complex social engineering tactics to compel victims into installing malicious software.The scam uses a video lure, which is recommended by one of the victims Facebook friends through a regular post.In most cases this is enough of an incentive to click on the message, […]

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