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Blog Post
An employee of the social networking site MySpace was recently fired after collecting the sensitive data of co-workers.
How many victims? Unknown.
What...
April 28, 2009
News
Cybercriminals are tapping into the popularity of social networking to more effectively craft their scams.
May 14, 2009
Brief
The insidious Zeus, or Zbot, trojan now is trying to infect users through spam that claims to come from MySpace, Gary Warner, director of research in computer forensics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, said in a blog post Monday. The messages falsely inform recipients that they must...
November 09, 2009
Brief
The Koobface worm, which previously had mainly affected MySpace and Facebook, is now infiltrating Twitter, Kaspersky Lab researchers said Tuesday. Infected accounts sent tweets containing a link to a URL that masqueraded as a video site, but actually contained malicious JavaScript. Mac or Linux users who clicked on the...
July 14, 2009
Brief
The number of new variants of Koobface, a social networking worm that installs a trojan on victim machines, has skyrocketed during the month of June. According to Kaspersky Lab, the number of Koobface strains rose from 324 at the end of May to nearly 1,000 by the end of June....
July 06, 2009
Brief
The latest Zeus malware campaign is taking the form of emails claiming to originate from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to a post Wednesday on the SANS Internet Storm Center. The messages contain a subject referencing the H1N1, or swine flu, vaccination program. If users follow...
December 02, 2009
Brief
A Chicago law firm and an Indiana man this week filed a class-action lawsuit against RockYou, provider of applications and services for social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. The company recently admitted that its databases, which contained the unencrypted usernames and passwords of 32 million users, were...
December 30, 2009
News
The Koobface worm continues to abuse social-networking sites and draw people into other malicious sites through search engine optimization tactics.
September 01, 2009
News
Twitter was struck by a particularly nasty cross-site scripting worm over the weekend, again bringing to light the threat of client-side attacks across social networking sites.
April 13, 2009
News
Sanford Wallace, the so-called spam king who has been sued on multiple occasions, may finally face prison time.
June 15, 2009
News
The Marine Corps is the latest military branch to set policy around the use of social networking sites when it banned access to them.
August 04, 2009
News
Facebook has won a $711 million civil action against reputed spammer Sanford Wallace, who may now face prison time as a result.
October 30, 2009
News
Updated: Certain U.S. Army bases that formerly blocked access to Web 2.0 sites now permit users to surf to sites such as Facebook and Flickr.
June 11, 2009
Opinion
Preventing access to Web 2.0 sites altogether isn't the right move.
July 06, 2009
News
Three months ago after an Army order lifted the ban on certain social networking sites, the Department of Defense said it is again questioning whether it should restrict access to popular web destinations.
August 03, 2009
Events
Quotes from Then and Now
September 24, 2009
News
A wave of spam over the weekend, which appeared to come from Verizon Wireless, was instead propagating the information-stealing Zbot trojan.
November 16, 2009
News
With Microsoft's assistance, Facebook has made great strides in fighting Koobface, a worm that has been wreaking havoc on social networking sites since last May.
April 06, 2009
News
In reaction to a letter from 37 respected names in the computer security field, Google is considering tighter security of its web applications.
June 17, 2009
News
Facebook launched a new iteration that makes it easier for users to customize their privacy settings as they send out content.
June 25, 2009