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Turn Facebook pink, red or black? Don’t fall for online scams

11

Jan

2012

Have your Facebook friends invited you to switch your boring blue Facebook profile to an attractive shade of red, black or shocking pink? Judging by the number of messages the Naked Security team has received from Facebook users struck by the scam in the last few days, many social networking users must have seen similar […]

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Beware of scams related to Facebook Timeline!

06

Jan

2012

First it was the Cheesecake Factory; now, it’s Timeline. Facebook, like many other social networking companies, is experiencing some user dissatisfaction, and scammers are taking advantage of anti-Timeline sentiment. According to Insidefacebook, scammers are creating pages that assure the public that by “liking” the page, watching the linked video, downloading a certain browser application, or inviting their […]

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“Curious Who’s Stalking You?” – Yes, we’ve heard it before

21

Dec

2011

This social media “stalking” thing, to the best of my knowledge, all began on MySpace. We’ve seen them emerge on Twitter, too: our friends at Sophos wrote a so-called “app” that Twitter purportedly released to track a user’s stalker. Only this time, no such app is ever involved. click to enlarge We’ve seen the tweet […]

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