Posts Tagged social

05
Mar

Koobface, Other Worms Target Facebook Friends (NewsFactor via Yahoo! News)

As Facebook works to make itself more relevant and timely for its growing member base with a profile page makeover, attackers seem to be working overtime to steal the identities of the friends, fans and brands that connect though the social-networking site.


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27
Feb

Second rogue Facebook app bewilders users (The Register)

Poisoned mushrooms and spam Scoundrels have created another rogue Facebook application, the second to hit the social networking site in less than a week.… Claim up to £100 Cash Back on selected Toshiba laptops


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26
Jan

A new worm infecting computers at an alarming rate (WWAY 3 Wilmington)

Submitted by WWAY on 26 January 2009 – 6:45pm. READ MORE: A new computer worm has infected 20 million computers worldwide, and it is spreading fast


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26
Jan

Hackers Lurking in Obama’s Web Site (PC World via Yahoo! News)

U.S. President Barack Obama ran a successful Web 2.0 campaign last year. Now, as president, he’s got to deal with a very Web 2.0 problem: hackers abusing the social-networking features of his Web site.


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15
Dec

The Dream of Ubiquitous Connectivity: Voice and Video in Every IP Device (Converge! Network Digest)

Palo Alto Networks introduced a firewall data leak prevention (DLP) functionality that can detect personally identifiable information, such as Social Security or credit card numbers, within application traffic.


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05
Dec

Koobface computer virus attacks Facebook users (San Francisco Chronicle)

Facebook’s millions of users are in the crosshairs of a computer virus dubbed Koobface that is being spread through the social networking site’s messaging system. Users whose computers are infected may have their credit card numbers stolen or their searches…


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05
Dec

Thieves Winning Online War, Maybe Even in Your Computer (New York Times)

With vast resources from stolen credit card and other financial information, cyberattackers are handily winning a technology arms race.


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05
Dec

Facebook besieged by Koobface virus (UPI)

PALO ALTO, Calif., Dec. 5 (UPI) — A computer virus dubbed Koobface had been running rampant on the social networking Web site Facebook, U.S.


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