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  • Facebook phishers target Fan Pages owners

    24.05.2013

    Phishing emails claiming to come from "Facebook Security" are once again hitting users' inboxes, and this time they are aiming for the big fish: pages that are likely to have more followers than a random private user.

  • Teens are into online sharing, but are also more privacy-aware

    23.05.2013

    Teens are sharing more information about themselves on social media sites than they have in the past, but they are also taking a variety of technical and non-technical steps to manage the privacy of that information.

  • Info-stealing Dorkbot worm spreading on Facebook

    16.05.2013

    The Dorkbot worm, which first appeared in 2011 and has since been spreading via removable drives, IM programs and social networks, is currently targeting Facebook users.

  • Malicious browser extensions are hijacking Facebook accounts

    13.05.2013

    Facebook users - especially those in Brazil - are being targeted with malicious browser extensions trying to hijack Facebook profiles, warns Microsoft.

  • Hijacking Facebook accounts via expired Hotmail accounts

    10.05.2013

    Three researchers from Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey, have discovered a simple way to hijack Facebook accounts by just by misusing existing features and responses of Facebook, Microsoft's Hotmail web-based email service and its Windows Live Messenger.





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