“Free Southwest Airlines tickets” Facebook scam
A new scam is targeting Facebook users and luring them in with promises of complimentary tickers from Southwest Airlines. But what makes this scam different and quite likely …
Cricket World Cup starts, scammers follow
The Cricket World Cup started on Saturday, and both the International Cricket Council and various security experts are issuing warnings to fans regarding likely cyber scams …
Can employers demand access to your Facebook account?
Most people consider their Facebook profile and its contents private and sacrosanct, but sometimes companies don’t agree with this assessment. The latest instance of …
New types of cookies raise online privacy concerns
The advertising industry has led the drive for new, persistent and powerful cookies, with privacy-invasive features for marketing practices and profiling. The EU cyber …
Protected health information breach analysis
Redspin released an analysis of all protected health information breaches publicly recorded between August 2009 and the end of 2010, as per the interim final breach …
250,000 Facebook profiles harvested for setting up dating site
250,000 Facebook users have become the unwitting members of a “dating” site whose authors claim is a “work of art” and not set up to make money, but …
Fake Facebook Security page sending out phishing messages
Phishers have rolled out a new tactic to target Facebook users – they are misusing the name of legitimate Facebook Security page and sending out warnings about an …
500,000 stolen e-mail credentials for Waledac’s comeback
Almost a year ago, the Waledac botnet was crippled by a legal action initiated by Microsoft which resulted in the takedown of 273 Internet domains that were being used as …
Facebook bug allows user data theft via specially crafted websites
A proof-of-concept attack page that exploits a Facebook vulnerability to access a user’s private data has been devised by two students who shared the information with …
Private info on Facebook increasingly used in court
Making the content of your Facebook account private can thwart the social network’s plan to share as much information possible with advertisers, but may not keep out …
EFF exposes extensive FBI violations
In 2009, the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a suit against a number of federal agencies that deal with intelligence gathering, requesting that they release documents and …
Who’s watching you? Online fears revealed
Despite lingering concerns about the U.S. economic recovery, Americans worry more about having their online privacy violated (25%) than declaring bankruptcy (23%) or losing …