Why is Facebook spam so successful? Because unlike email spam, which comes unwanted to the mailbox, Facebook spam is propagated through user actions and driven by curiosity. The “Stalker” spam we’ve been seing so much of lately is another example of such. Being a network driven by social interactions, Facebook is most vulnerable to socially … More CyberThreats Daily: Curiosity fuels spread of Facebook spam
ESET Ireland’s last release about Facebook spam wave has attracted much attention. Among others (such as IrishDev, Facecrooks, etc) Siliconrepublic.com also ran the story, but being dilligent reporters as they are, they also asked Facebook for their side of the story and Facebook agreed with ESET Ireland. In an answer to Siliconrepublic’s question regarding the … More CyberThreats Daily: Facebook agrees with ESET Ireland on spam threat
In the last 24 hours the security experts of ESET Ireland have caught more than 5 different Facebook spams. This is the biggest spam wave so far we have seen appearing all over people’s walls in such a short time. Facebook is vulnerable to spam by design, since Facebook users trust the messages they see … More CyberThreats Daily: A new spam wave on Facebook
Just the other day a journalist commented to me, as so many have before, that “surely people can be relatively safe online, if they just avoid dodgy sites” (and by dodgy sites, they usually mean porn or piracy sites). After all the years of telling people about malicious code injections, about drive-by downloads, and about … More Security Feature: Misplaced trust in trustworthy names?
Facebook wants you to believe that you gave them your mobile phone number for security reasons and important notifications. The truth is that they wanted your phone number and your address to be able to share it more. The Huffington Post reports that Facebook is going to make your address and phone number available to … More CyberThreats Daily: Facebook Privacy – Not Even an Electron Microscope Can Find it
