Posts Tagged ‘status messages’

Facebook birthday T-shirt scam steals secret mobile email addresses

Sep

2011

Facebook scams are getting sneakier and sneakier – with the latest attack using the lure of a free T-shirt celebrating Facebook’s birthday in an attempt to steal the secret backdoor key to your account. The offer seems attractive enough – a webpage claiming to celebrate Facebook’s 7th birthday, saying that it has over 1.9 million […]

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Is Al Gore asking permission to spam from your social networking account?

Sep

2011

Is this spam or not? I’m finding it hard to decide. But there’s certainly something about it which makes me feel uncomfortable with my security hat on. Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project is encouraging social networking users to “donate” their online accounts for what they call “24 hours of Reality”. During that time, the organisation […]

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Airport Security – On a Different Angle Though .

Aug

2011

Airport kiosks have achieved a wide distribution nowadays. They offer the convenience of having access to all sorts of travel related information, IP-telephony as well as to the Internet while on the road. Which is a good thing! However, when I travelled back from BlackHat and DefCon 19 and checked in at the Mc Carran […]

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