“Official Profile Viewer Application” Facebook scam
After many, many offers of applications that supposedly show Facebook users who views their profile the most, has the time finally come when these lures don’t work as …
US government to deliver terror alerts via Facebook and Twitter
Color-coded terror alerts for US citizens could very soon become a thing of the past. Starting from April 27, the Department of Homeland Security is likely to differentiate …
Uptick in rogue Facebook applications
GFI Software announced the top 10 most prevalent malware threats for the month of March 2011. GFI researchers found that the Japanese tsunami, earthquake and subsequent …
Mining the Social Web: Analyzing Data from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Other Social Media Sites
The only way you could have missed the fact that the social networking boom has led to huge amounts of social data becoming available to knowledgeable searchers is if you …
Bogus Facebook app harvests user login credentials
A bogus application harvesting Facebook users’ login credentials has recently appeared on the social network, according to Symantec researchers. Luring in users with …
Facebook users spammed through Events feature
Facebook scammers are sure to take advantage of every feature that the social network offers and that can be exploited to propagate their scams. The latest one employes the …
“Hey, I just made a photoshop of you” Facebook scam
A new Facebook scam that is spreading via Facebook Chat messages is luring people in with promises of a Photoshopped image of themselves. “hey, i just made a photoshop …
Facebook battles likejacking scammers
Facebook and its users have been plagued for a while now by a seemingly never ending steady stream of scams, among which are those that hijack users’ “likes” …
Cybercriminals and their favorite baits
According to PandaLabs research, 25 percent of sites used video and multimedia content as bait; 21.63 percent referred to installers or program updates; 16.53 percent claimed …
Harvest geolocation user info with Creepy
Creepy is an application that allows you to gather geolocation related information about users from social networking platforms and image hosting services. The information is …
Facebook XSS flaw misused for automatic Wall posting
A currently unpatched XSS vulnerability in the mobile API version of Facebook is currently being exploited to post messages to users’ Walls, which serve as a gateway to …
Social media threats and targeted attacks
In the video below, Alexandru Catalin Cosoi, the Head of Online Threats Lab at BitDefender, talks about the new breed of social media threats and sophisticated targeted …
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