While users are trooping to the cinemas to watch Iron Man 3, some may scour the Internet for bootleg copies or free movie streaming. Unfortunately, this gives the bad guys an opportunity to serve users with their dubious schemes.
We conducted a simple Google query and found more than a hundred websites claiming that they provide movie streaming of Iron Man 3. (The movie has already opened in some countries but not the United States, making these claims more credible at ...
There’s a saying in journalism: report the news, don’t be the news.
Unfortunately today the Associated Press (AP) ran afoul of that rule by having their Twitter account hijacked.
In good journalistic fashion, they’re telling their own story quickly and with as much facts as possible. It sounds that they saw a phishing attack against their network just before the account was hijacked. While they don’t connect the two, it’s certainly a possibility that this is how the attackers got control of ...
Besides the fake Facebook Profile Viewer ruse, we found another Facebook scam that lures users into downloading a fake Adobe Flash Player plugin. We noticed countless feeds pointing to a Facebook page with more than 90 million "likes". For some, this huge number of Facebook likes may be enough for them to check the page out. It also means that the page is quite popular and may lead users into thinking that it is legitimate and harmless.
Figure 1. Spammed Facebook ...
Facebook Home is now available for (some) Android devices, aside from its launch device, the HTC First. It is easy to understand this direction that Facebook has chosen to take. There are many users who would find something like Facebook Home useful and would like it: people who use their mobile devices primarily to connect with their Friends and share likes, updates, photos, and other such social activities.
However, people are becoming genuinely concerned about how much of our data ...
Within a short time period of less than 24 hours, cybercriminals have already taken advantage of Monday's explosion at the Boston Marathon as a newsworthy item. My colleague Mary Ermitano-Aquino noted a spam outbreak of more than 9,000 Blackhole Exploit Kit (clarification below) spammed messages, all related to the said tragedy that killed at least three people and injured many more. Some of the spammed messages used the subjects "2 Explosions at Boston Marathon," "Aftermath to explosion at Boston Marathon," "Boston Explosion ...
