Tag: social networking
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Spammers using social network templates
Templates from social networking sites used to make messages appear legitimate. According to Symantec , spammers are increasingly using templates from social networking sites to make their messages appear legitimate. The company also reports that the volume of Chinese language spam has increased in recent months. With most Internet users active on one or more…
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Malicious applications target Orkut
Visitors to infected social network profiles redirected to phishing sites. Users of the social networking site Orkut have found themselves targeted by malicious applications that redirect visitors to phishing URLs, according to researchers at Kaspersky Lab . Orkut , founded by Google at the beginning of 2004, was one of the first big social networking…
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Twitter hit by phishing and hacks
Popular micro-blog site latest target of link spammers. The latest social networking craze, micro-blogging service Twitter , has joined the likes of MySpace and Facebook in being exploited by phishers, spammers and hackers in a spate of incidents over the past few days. A slick phishing campaign led to the hijacking of numerous user accounts…
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Usual fare for holiday season
Storm ecards and social site spyware mark unsurprising year end. With large portions of the globe celebrating various festivals over the past few weeks, an expected upsurge in malware attacks has been seen, including the now inevitable wave of emails from the ‘Storm’ worm attack (which targeted most important festivals in the past year), supplemented…
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LinkedIn providing open redirect
Lax website setup could be used to trick the unwary. Popular professional networking system LinkedIn has been allowing free redirects from its website, providing spammers and phishers with a way of providing links which appear to lead to the contact system but instead take victims to malicious or deceptive sites. The practice of using genuine…
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Facebook users warned of phishing dangers
41% happy to hand out personal data to strangers. Research carried out by Sophos has found that 41% of users of hugely popular social networking site Facebook risk revealing sensitive personal information to total strangers. The study involved creating a user on the site under the name ‘Freddi Staur’ (an anagram of ‘ID fraudster’) and…