social networking sites

The creativity and resourcefulness of the criminal underground never ceases to amaze me. Granted, these guys have nothing else to do but sit around and come up with new scams, but still, some of these things are truly inspired. Have a look at this Google AdWords phishing scam that has been showing up in recent [...]  read more »

After a brief period of inactivity, eCard themed spam mails seem to be back in action. As usual, these mails carry links to malware masqueraded as e-greeting cards. Here are some examples of eCard mails (note that the From header is spoofed):  read more »

When the subject of penetration testing and security assessments comes up, it usually conjures thoughts of highly skilled consultants deploying an array of custom tools to gather information on a target network and look for potential weak spots. But there are a number of guys out there doing these assessments who are using less-technical methods [...]  read more »

Users of social networking sites may be irritated to find that an increasing number of invitations to be a friend or contact turn out to be ads.Spammers are turning their attention to social networking sites to hawk their products, according to Cloudmark, a messaging security company. As email antispam technology has improved, spammers have branched [...]  read more »

Social networking sites, which are as popular as Nickelback and even more annoying, have become favorite playgrounds for malware authors and attackers. We’ve seen attacks using both Facebook and MySpace as a launching pad in recent months, and now it’s Orkut’s turn again. Orkut is Google’s homegrown social networking platform and Symantec researchers have discovered [...]  read more »

Social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace aren’t very popular in the corporate world, according to a study by Barracuda Networks.Analyzing data from businesses using its Web filtering appliance, the company found that 44 percent block MySpace while 26 percent block Facebook. More than 50 percent block one of those sites or both.“It was interesting [...]  read more »

Do you MySpace? You know your kids do–and chances are that a good percentage of the twenty-somethings at your company do too. And that’s a potential problem that not enough security managers are paying attention to.Steve Patton, security architect with a financial services organization, spends a good amount of time investigating social networking sites and [...]  read more »