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Just 14 years Old drunk girl did this infront of all Public – Facebook Scam

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Jul

2013

Spam Message: Just 14 years Old #drunk girl did this #infront of all Public Scam Type: Rogue #browser extension Trending: July 2013 Why it’s a Scam: Clicking the wall post link takes you to the following page: #scammers often use tricks like this to make #unsuspecting users think they need to update their #flash plugin, […]

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BET VIP Concert Ticket Scam Spreading on Twitter

19

Jul

2013

This weekend one of my favorite bands won free concert tickets on Twitter. They tweeted about the message they received from another Twitter user. Figure 1. Sarcastic tweet about free concert tickets This type of scam looked familiar from a security standpoint. Upon further investigation, we at Symantec Security Response confirmed these suspicions. Figure 2. Spam account replies […]

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Rise of the social bots

12

Jun

2013

?Malware authors and distributors follow the money. When you consider the growing popularity of social networking websites, it should come as no surprise that malware continues to maintain its presence in this area. Every year we are spending a growing proportion of our time online using social media like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. What does this […]

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