Tag: Facebook
Do you trust your child online? Can you trust yourself?
Ok, you’ve been hearing this advice for years: monitor your children’s activities on the Internet, talk to them about the possible dangers, install web monitoring programs, and so on. And, of course, you secure your own online activities too, right? (May 11, 2011)
Facebook: Ceglia’s alleged Emails, fraud or not?
In the past few days, news have been soaring with a new episode of the Ceglia-Facebook-Zuckerberg saga. Are we at 'Facebook: A New Hope', 'Ceglia Strikes Back', 'The Return of The Face Book'? I've lost count. Evaluated at $50 Billion and with over 600 million users, the popular social media is an ideal target. (Apr 15, 2011)
Word of the Week: Clickjacking
Clickjacking scams are making the rounds of Facebook users again, and while the current wave is supposedly under control (according to the FB people) new versions keep popping up all the time. (Mar 07, 2011)
Mark Zuckerberg commented on your photo
This is a new spam that has just started showing up in my inbox. A few others seem to have received it. It seems like a non-threatening phishing attempt redirecting clickers to mysearchmusic.com. The destination site seems unharmful at first glance, and acts as a MP3 Search Engine, with Google AdSense. (Nov 24, 2010)
Facebook Mail Rumor: Friend or Foe? Gmail killer?
The feature hasn’t even been officially announced yet and already the “Will Facebook kill Gmail, Hotmail, etc.” speculations are popping up all over the Net. I don’t know about ‘kill’ per se, but Facebook will definitely give the big guns a run for their money. (Nov 12, 2010)
Latest spear phishing wave targets companies
Let’s say your name is Jim and you get this email. It looks like this Michelle knows you but you can’t really remember who she is. Since you have 8,641,037 friends on Facebook, you decide to trust the email (it’s not perfect, but it’s not as full of typos as typical spam, so that’s a start!). (Nov 12, 2010)
Word of the Week: Likejacking
Facebook’s Like button is now available for use on sites external to Facebook. What does this mean? (Sep 10, 2010)
From Wave to Ripple to Flat line: Google Pulls the Plug on Wave
It came. It went. The end of email was predicted and in the end it’s Google Wave that bowed out. Looks like we didn’t have to wait long to see what the future would have in hold for Google Wave: on August 4th, Google announced that they were pulling the plug on Wave due to lack of user adoption, and discontinuing its development as a standalone product. (Aug 06, 2010)
Spear Phishing: Is Your Boss a Whale?
Spear and whale phishing 1have been around for a while now, but recent social engineering efforts are focusing more on company executives. An example is this type of email: it certainly looks legit at first glance; even the phone number and address – right down to the floor number – are correct. But take a closer look at the URL used in the links: the real site has no relation to puzzlejs-mailing.com. (Jul 29, 2010)
Surfing on Web 2.0: Where Innovation Meets Cybercrime
Yesterday, I logged into Facebook. I usually never use my account there (I am not a Facebook fan), but once in a while I’ll spend some time on it. For the first time, after entering my credentials, a “security” page appeared stating that unusual activities have been witnessed on my account. I then had to answer some questions, choose the names of some tagged friends, and reset my password. I have no idea what happened or how my account got compromised. (Jul 20, 2010)
Angelina Jolie wants to be my friend: The pitfalls of social media
I guess writing this blog brings some perks after all. I’ve been nominated to ‘represent [my] professional community’ for every possible Who’s Who list, Facebook invitations are coming in fast and furious, I’m getting offered all kinds of free product subscriptions, and, judging from my message content, I think my 15 minutes of fame have finally arrived! (Jun 09, 2010)
Interview with Adam Guerbuez: $873 Million Dollar Man
"I need a one way ticket to Tijuana!" You might think that if something happens and you want to escape. But if you live in Canada, just sit back and relax - you have nothing to worry about. Canada is known for their lazy laws for certain types of crimes, especially "new" ones (like the latest incidents of financial fraud and spam). (Jun 07, 2010)
Facebook or Faceblock? Facebook implementing their own ‘email security’?
Facebook is coming under scrutiny (again!), this time about their email scanning policies. Most of you are probably in the email security industry and are well aware that any email security solution will scan a message to divert or block spam, phishing, etc. (May 12, 2010)
Anti-Social Networking
Web 2.0 is leading us to operate and collaborate more through our web browsers than ever before. Consequently, sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and MySpace are being used more aggressively for everything from chatting to marketing. Spammers are loving this. (Apr 07, 2010)
Is Email Dead? Don’t believe the Hype!
With all the buzz around social media (and notably so), industry analysts are declaring email a thing of “the past” and that social media applications, namely sites like Twitter and Facebook, will take over as our online method of communications. As technology evolves, it drives the habits of consumers. (Oct 23, 2009)
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