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Facebook and Websense Partner up to Combat Malware

04

Oct

2011

Facebook, the world’s largest social networking site, has enjoyed unparalleled growth in the past few years. The site can boast of a user base consisting of more than 800 million people – an incredibly impressive achievement, all things considered. Unfortunately, as the social networking site’s population grew, so too did the number of opportunist scams. […]

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Facebook Money & Romance Scams: An Intricate Web of Deceit

30

Sep

2011

Using Facebook as a means for communication is becoming more and more treacherous as scams running through the site have become more intricate and much harder to detect. One woman named Edythe Schumacher has just recently fallen victim to one of these scams. The scammer successfully impersonated her sister, Susan Palmer, and convinced her to […]

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Facebook agrees to follow Germany’s Voluntary Privacy Code

09

Sep

2011

Germany is one of the most stringent countries when it comes to online security and data protection. As such, the country’s government has been pressing Facebook to improve its policy and its security measures or face a hefty fine. Facebook’s refusal to partake in the country’s self-regulatory policies for social networking services already placed it […]

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