ESET Ireland is issuing a warning about a widespread Facebook scam, this time exploiting the tragic suicide of comic actor Robin Williams. The scam, which has spread widely on Facebook, claims to show a “goodbye” video made by Robin Williams before he committed suicide last week. However, when Facebook users click on the link they … More New sick Facebook scam exploits Robin Williams’ suicide
The release of ESET NOD32® Antivirus and ESET Smart Security® version 6 also saw the birth of ESET’s Social Media Scanner, a free Facebook Application that protects your profile from malicious content by making sure that the content of your wall, newsfeed and private messages are checked for threats even when you are not logged … More Scandal Video of Justin Bieber: Just Don’t Click Here!!!
If the scary email or app notification–and subsequent webpage–is to be believed, you have only a few days to verify your Facebook account or you’ll be out of luck. But don’t worry, a few days later you will magically get a few more days to verify, and so the scam goes. A Twitter follower with … More Your Facebook account will be terminated – again
A couple of weeks ago, some of my Facebook friends were putting up messages telling the world what was number one in the charts the day they were born and in some cases providing a link to a video. While it was depressing to realize how young so many of my friends were – I … More Your birthday #1 hit single and survey scams
People’s curiosity usually get’s the better of them, but Facebook doesn’t enable you to know who is actually watching your profile. So whenever these messages appear, you should know that the only ones watching your profile with such apps are the cybercriminals. To activate this, you must usually make your profile entirely visible to the … More CyberThreats Daily: Who is watching your Facebook profile?
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