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Facebook chat worm continues to spread

05

Dec

2011

Last week Naked Security warned of a Facebook worm that was spreading on the social network, tricking users into believing that they were clicking on a link to an image. The bad news is that the attack appears to still appears to be spreading via Facebook’s chat system, exploiting compromised users’ accounts. An analysis by […]

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Starbucks Survey Scam Targets Both Facebook and Twitter Users

17

Nov

2011

Late last month we reported about survey scams, and how such threats go across platforms from social networks to mobile. Back then we reported a scam deployed through Facebook, which enticed users into clicking links by offering free Starbucks coffee.We saw a scam very similar to the one we reported before, except for some differences. […]

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Websense 2011 predictions score A-, 2012 predictions coming soon.

15

Nov

2011

About a year ago we predicted what the biggest security risks would be in 2011 and as we’re coming up towards the end of the year we wanted to see how accurate these predictions were. We have rated our 2011 predictions on a scale of A-F. Here we go!1. The Stuxnet sequels are comingWhile there […]

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