Yet another rogue Facebook application is spreading its tentacles rapidly across the social networking system, posting messages from users' compromised accounts claiming to be a link to a video of an anaconda coughing up an entire hippo.
A quick search on Facebook finds thousands of users who appear to have updated their status with the message about "the scariest snake ever":
followed by a t...
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The bad guys are at it again on Facebook. I have made a video demonstrating the latest attack:
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So, what's the background to the story? Well, in May of this year amateur video footage of an American teacher allegedly attacking a 13-year-old pupil in front of fellow students made ...
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Hot on the heels of the Coca-Cola Facebook scam , which promised to reveal the “truth” about Coca-Cola (but in reality simply aimed to get a hold of your personal info), are two more spreading via Facebook status updates. The first one contains the message: “OMG!! Guys, you have to see this: This mother went to jail for taking this pic of her son,” with a link to a page that tricks you into s...
There’s a new scam on Facebook promising to show you a video revealing the “truth” about Coca-Cola, but all it’s really after is your personal info. The message reads: “I am part of the 98.0% of people that are NEVER gonna drink Coca Cola again after this HORRIFIC video,” followed by a link. If you click on the link, you’ll be asked to share the video seven times. However, the counter doesn’t ...
Egy nap alatt megvolt 2 $. Kifizetésre kattintva pár óra múlva jött a pénz, 1,5 HKD. Na jó, most vártam 3 napot 8 dollárnál 7,8 HKD-t küldött paypalra. Amit eddig nem is néztem, aHongkongi dollár, kb a tizede az amrikai dollárnak! Ezt nem reklámozzák. A másik, hogy a munkahelyi gépemen nem Avast, hanem Avira van, [...]
Pár hónapon keresztül fizetett Paypalra , aztán amint feljebb ment a kereset, hamis kattintások miatt letiltottak. Az internetet olvasva teli van Bidvertiser lehúzásokkal. Legutóbb valakitől 3500$ -t nyúlt le a “cég”. Azt gondoltam, hogy valaki risszindulatúan rám kattingatott, de ennyi elkeseredett és átvágott felhasználó panasz után 100%, hogy a cég lenyúlja a pénzt. Ne használd, [...]
Editors Notes: Do you know how quickly you can lose your money in a job scam? Most of you consider yourself intelligent and capable persons. But when someone is unemployed for some time desperation can make people see an employment opportunity through jaded eyes. This is a story with a wakeup call. How you can quickly lose money to a job scam.
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In the wake of the recent headlines about privacy concerns and the widespread "sexiest video ever" malware attack against Facebook users earlier this week, I've been keeping a close eye on the messages people post publicly to see how they're coping, and what general advice they give to each other about security and privacy issues.
One of the things I've noticed is a growing number of people ...
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Businesses might still be warming up to the idea of social media marketing to sell goods and services, but hackers seem to understand the potential, going to the extent of propagating a current Facebook-based scam, purportedly for Whole Foods, to gain personal information and install viruses. The scam is in various forms — and even uses Whole Foods Market’ logo — suggesting that you can a $500 gif...
SophosLabs today published its latest Security Threat Report, exploring the last 12 months of attacks against computers and what the future might hold for threats.
Inside you'll find a wide variety of threats discussed including:
Social networking threats
Data loss and encryption
Web threats
Email threats
Spam
Malware trends
Windows 7
Apple Macs
Mobile devices
Cybercrime...
Dave Borgenicht is the co-author of the best-selling Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook , which has spawned numerous sequels, games, t-shirts, a TV show and more. For more tips, check out the official blog or follow the Worst-Case Twitter feed @WorstCaseBooks .
Worst-Case Scenarios don’t just happen in the physical world — there are countless injuries, dangerous creatures, pitfalls, con...
Two and a half years ago, the elegant Georgetown estate Evermay was the site of a scam marriage put on by an international fraudster in a storyline that is stranger than fiction.
Specifically, in the spring of 2007 a British national named Kevin Halligen rented out Evermay to host his wedding to American Maria Dybczak. According to recent news reports :
Had the wedding not been fake, it woul...
Where you go, we follow. That’s the motto of the scammer brigade; those invisible citizens of the web underworld. They populate our inboxes, our blog comments, our forums and not surprisingly, our social networks. What’s their loot? It’s our information.
Social sites like Facebook are built around communities. In the real world, a community is a safe haven, but it’s not so in the digital wor...
I hate, I repeat, I HATE fake antivirus programs with a fury! You know exactly what I am talking about. These are pieces of software that advertise their ability to protect and fix your machine, yet once they are installed, they take over your machine, disable your antivirus and hold your computer as a virtual hostage.
Here is an example of one of these roguee programs. It is called Antivirus 20...