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Undercover Facebook investigator highlights dilemmas in keeping children safe online

08

Aug

2011

Australian Murdoch-owned tabloid the Herald Sun, published in Melbourne, Victoria, today reports on a thought-provoking war of words between two Victorian cybersecurity consultants. Nathalie Brown, who runs a child behaviour consultancy called Easy Peasy Kids, claims in the Herald Sun that she created a fake 14-year-old Faceook persona and quickly stumbled into sexually-explicit rants about […]

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Facebook Scam Leverages Lady Gaga’s ‘Death,’ Bypasses HTTPS

06

Aug

2011

We’ve recently analyzed a Facebook spam that purportedly comes from the media organization British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), similar to how cybercriminals used the social networking site LinkedIn early last month.The attack starts with a wall post containing the subject BREAKING: Lady Gaga Found Dead in Hotel Room together with the legitimate site www.bbc.co.uk and a […]

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Counting Down to Another Half-Year of Threats

04

Aug

2011

The first half of the 2011 was marred by a spate of data breaches, vulnerability exploit attacks, the proliferation of more and more Android malware, improved social networking scams, and notable developments in traditional system infections. As our security experts predicted, enterprises suffered from a slew of data breaches of never-before-seen magnitude. This spelled disaster […]

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