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
You can say what you want about cybersecurity, but you’ve got to admit it’s never boring. If it’s not viruses it’s spam, if it’s not spam it’s scams, if it’s not scams it’s hacks… Last LOL for LulzSec as hackers disband group LulzSec, also known as Lulz Security, the hacker group that has been making … More CyberThreats Daily: LolzSec disband but the cyberfront is far from quiet
US crime-fighters closed in on a gang behind a huge botnet after taking control of the criminals’ servers. The authorities issued their own commands, effectively ordering the malware to shut down. They also logged the IP addresses of compromised machines. BBC news wrote about it, as ESET’s David Harley in the article Coreflood Reduced to … More CyberThreats Daily: FBI closes in on zombie PC gang
A camera with a GPS facility can store coordinates information in the header of each photograph taken, if the facility is enabled. You can harvest information about someone’s location at the time a picture was taken that you can build on to establish a bigger picture of their movements and activities. Of course, there are … More CyberThreats Daily: Your smartphone might be giving away more info than you really want to share
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