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Facebook has identified the hacker named Kirllos who tried to sell 1.5 million Facebook accounts recently in underground hacking forums. According to the investigators at the social networking site, he’s guilty of both hacking and hyperbole.
Kirllos was first spotted by researchers at VeriSign’s iDefense group a few weeks back after he claimed to have an [...] Read more »
I recently received two Facebook e-mail notifications that set my security spider-sense tingling. Nothing was obviously wrong with the e-mail messages, which said that my friend had tagged a photo of me and then commented on it. But something about a reference to an app named “Who stalks into your profile” just didn’t feel right.
So [...] Read more »
Another day, another Facebook security snafu. The popular social network has patched a major security bug that allowed users to snoop on their friends’ private chats, and view their pending friend requests.
The exploit caused Facebook to temporarily disable chat, which was back online as of 11 a.m. (US Pacific) on Wednesday.
Users could inadvertently activate the [...] Read more »
Stormy weather could be on the horizon for cloud computing as security experts warn not enough is being done to make sure one of the hottest IT trends is safe.
“There are many motivations for why an individual or a company would want to engage in cloud computing,” said Thomas Parenty, managing director of Parenty Consulting, [...] Read more »
Facebook users are expressing strong disapproval of proposed privacy changes that will let the site share some user information with third-party Web sites and applications.
Under Facebook’s current rules you’re asked first if you want to share information (your name, photos and friends list) with third-party sites. The proposed policy, which Facebook hasn’t implemented yet, would [...] Read more »
Cybercriminals have been busy this week running scams that target Facebook users, college basketball fans, and celebrity gossip watchers. Security experts are warning about recent attacks with nasty payloads.
One widespread attack was a common ploy security researchers call the Facebook Password Reset Scam. The cybercriminals send an e-mail addressed to “user of Facebook” that reads, [...] Read more »
The International Cybercrime Reporting and Cooperation Act takes on a growing problem for banks and U.S. businesses: the ability for cybercriminals to operate with impunity across international borders. The bill is co-sponsored by Senators Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat from New York, and Orrin Hatch, a Republican from Utah.
In recent years, cybercriminals have mastered techniques for [...] Read more »
A bogus application that lures Facebook users by falsely offering to show who has been viewing their profile has been exposed as a scam.
Rik Ferguson, a senior security consultant at Trend Micro, warns he has already identified 25 different copies of the same rogue app but using different monikers such as peeppeep-pro, profile-check-online and stalk-my-profile.
All [...] Read more »
One in four UK youngsters have tried hacking into Facebook or webmail accounts, according to a new survey.
An online poll of 1,000 school-age children in London and 150 in Cumbria discovered that the vast majority (78 per cent) knew that hacking was wrong. Despite this a substantial minority couldn’t help themselves from snooping on their [...] Read more »
A networking error has caused computers in Chile and the U.S. to come under the control of the Great Firewall of China, redirecting Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube users to Chinese servers.
Security experts are not sure exactly how this happened, but it appears that at least one ISP recently began fetching high-level DNS (domain name server) [...] Read more »
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