Facebook recently rolled out a program we thought was a good step, bounties paid to hackers to find and report bugs, rather than exploit them. So far that payout has totaled around $40,000, no small sum for the aspiring hackers, and probably a boon for Facebook’s efforts to proactively fix security issues before a potential … More CyberThreats Daily: Facebook bug bounty payout tops $40K
It has been 1,000 days since the Conficker worm first appeared on November 21, 2008. For the first two months after its initial appearance we received a trickle of reports through our ThreatSense.NET telemetry system. By January of 2009 that had become a flood, and then a deluge, as this “super worm” rose to meteoric … More CyberThreats Daily: 1000 days of Conficker
If you downloaded the Facebook app for your mobile device, and just zipped through the install options (like users commonly do), did you know all your contacts could now be on your Facebook Contact list (formerly Phonebook) and can be datamined by Facebook? This is also disturbing if Facebook itself gets hacked and your phone … More Mobile devices auto-import phonebook to Facebook (and how to fix it)
We’ve told you time and again that today’s news becomes tomorrow’s scam. This is how Kirsten Miranda of WBTV started her report on scammers using London riots for their own gain. “It usually starts with an email or a Facebook or other social networking post. Someone on your list of friends or in your email … More London riots in the cyberworld
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