According to the information revealed at their conference in Dublin, the Irish reporting and information security service (IRISSCERT) had 441 security incidents reported to it in 2011, 92 per cent of which related to Irish websites being broken into by criminals to host phishing sites to target unsuspecting users. Just under all (96 per cent) … More Cyber criminals behind 96% of attacks on Irish websites
Since the last Much Ado About Facebook post on the Blog, we have written additional articles, received a few comments, and also received updated information on the “threat,” so it seems that now is a good time for a follow-up article. Reports continue to come in of pornographic and violent imagery on Facebook, and Facebook’s … More Much Ado About Facebook, Part II
The Reuters news agency reported a sudden increase in violent and pornographic images and videos on Facebook. Our colleagues at other security vendors have written more about the matter in their respective blogs, providing some additional details of what Facebook’s customers saw and identifying a variant of the seven-year-old Win32/Bifrose Trojan as the source of the … More Much Ado About Facebook
One of my Facebook friends drew my attention today to a fast-spreading link. I’m pleased to say that he knew better than to look at it, but I figured it was worth seeing what it was all about. The link comes with this message, according to Facecrooks.com (a good place to check for stuff like this): … More Facebook video scam: 15 seconds? Don’t watch it at all
Creating a fake Facebook account has always been a violation of Facebook’s terms and conditions so, on the face of it, researchers from the University of British Columbia (UBC) have just racked up a bunch of violations. How? As reported by TechCrunch and PC World, they created a network of about 100 bots that acted … More Facebook hoaxes, botnets and data mining
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