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Phishing Campaign Spreading Across Facebook

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2008-06-20 17:35:37 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
Phishers have once again indicated their interest in obtaining fresh passwords for social networking sites, by using the already hacked accounts there in order to social engineer the account holder's friends that the phishing links they leave as comments are legitimate. This latest internal phishing campaign circulating across Facebook , is a...
 
Tags: facebook, campaign, phishers, info, myspace phishers, info facebookindex, myspace, profile, facebookindex
 
 
 
 
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Prediction 1 for 2008 - Facebook hacked

2008-01-23 12:18:00 by Allen Baranov, CISSP in Security Thoughts
 
Ok, finally, here it is For the impatient - Facebook will be hacked. Alternatively, a major Facebook application will be hacked Right...the impatient can go now. The rest - read on Personal note first I decided that my Blog was becoming too important. I have a host of blog posts that are just not quite as well written as I'd like and since...
 
Tags: major facebook application, facebook application, application, facebook, application runs, application developer, application language, facebook information, facebook explosion
 
 
 
 
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"Interesting" Advert Placements On Facebook

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2008-07-03 18:45:10 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
I've had a few people mention "odd things" happening when trying to install an application on Facebook called "Gridview". Well, I decided to try it out. On the install screen, you see this Makes sense so far. Here's the install screen where you agree to let the application loose on your profile Click to Enlarge Once done, you see the...
 
Tags: facebook, application install, application, standard facebook, network, facebook network completely, applications, facebook applications, application loose
 
 
 
 
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Facebook Privacy Issues

2008-01-07 02:05:44 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
This actually comes a few months late, but Ive read enough about it that I think its worth talking about. Theres an article on the Silicon Insider talking about the newest integration between Facebook and Blockbuster, Fandago and others. Had I not already heard all the details and fallout I probably would have said, Sounds like a complicated...
 
Tags: facebook, privacy, friends facebook profile, peoples privacy, friends, people, privacy issue, silicon insider article, article
 
 
 
 
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Canadian Group Says Facebook Violates Privacy Laws

2008-06-03 02:21:14 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
 
You know, I would have to agree with them in principle. From what I have seen Facebook seems to take a dim view of anything/anyone that questions their rule Privacy, schmivacy From Computer World AU A Canadian public policy group Friday filed a complaint charging Facebook with 22 separate violations of a Canadian personal information protection...
 
Tags: facebook, privacy, canadian public policy, public, personal information, privacy commissioner, ottawas student population, canadian internet policy, obtain permission
 
 
 
 
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Facebook backs down on Beacon program

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2007-12-11 11:09:46 by Jen Albornoz Mulligan in Security & Risk Management
The biggest privacy news lately has been about Facebook's Beacon program . The program was sharing information about purchases made on third-party partner sites with Facebook, even if the user was not signed into Facebook or had deactivated their account. Opt-ing out of the program was a challenge. Facebook, after several weeks has acknowledged...
 
Tags: privacy, privacy impact assessments, program, facebook, beacon program, privacy insensitive developments, business projects, projects, privacy news
 
 
 
 
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Facebook Attacked By Viral Social Networking Spam From China

2008-08-20 10:42:33 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
Websense Security Labs published a research of recent Facebook phishing email picked up by their Honeyjax system recently. Websense has been tracking various Facebook attacks for years, althoughh attacks on Facebook and MySpace in the last few weeks are nothing new. There have been continual, targeted Facebook attacks for some time now. The...
 
Tags: facebook, recent facebook, facebook attacks, websense, websense security labs, honeyjax system recently, attack starts, althoughh attacks, time
 
 
 
 
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Facebook Malware Campaigns Rotating Tactics

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2008-08-27 10:04:51 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
Trust is vital, and coming up with ways to multiply the trust factor is crucial for a successful malware campaign spreading across social networks . Excluding the publicly available malware modules for spreading across popular social networking sites , using the presumably, already phished accounts for the foundation of the trust factor, the...
 
Tags: malware campaign, successful malware campaign, facebook, facebook malware campaign, campaigns, campaign, campaigns based, trust factor, trust
 
 
 
 
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Tillian IM, Facebook and Apple iCal flaws

2008-05-26 00:00:00 by Jason Meserve in Network World on Security
 
Users of the Trillian IM client, Apple's iCal and Facebook are all at risk after flaws in each were discoverd. Fortunately, for Trillian users an update is available. But Facebook and iCal users are still waiting for fixes. Facebook users could have their accounts compromised through a password capture script. iCal is vulnerable to a critical...
 
Tags: facebook, trillian, trillian users, users, facebook users, ical, ical users, apple, password capture script