Saturday, September 6th, 2008
Researchers have created a proof-of-concept application for Facebook that turned the machines of people who added the app to their Facebook page into a botnet that launched denial-of-service attacks on a victim server in a demonstration.
"Social Network Web sites have the ideal properties to become attack platforms," according to a ...
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Dutch Valleywag reader Dirk Dijksma has come up with a clever twist on the old metasearch engine: He's collected all the sites that HR people use to suss out job applicants, and put them into one page called CVGadget with expanding/collapsing widgets that only show the top few of each ...
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Facebook users are being targeted by malicious hackers through postings on the popular Wall section of the social-networking site, security companySophos said Thursday.The Wall, a core feature of Facebook profile pages, is used by members to leave each other messages that in addition to text can also contain photos, videos, ...
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
A glitch in a test version of Facebook's Web site inadvertently exposed the birthdays of Facebook's 80 million members this week.
The bug was discovered over the weekend by Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant at Sophos. While checking out Facebook's new design, Cluley noticed that the birth dates of some ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
The virtual flood gates have been opened and social networking is rushing in from the personal lives of employees and into the workplace -- bringing a host of concerns along with it.Facebook is no longer restricted to the realm of college students, and LinkedIn is specifically designed for the professional ...
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Saturday, June 14th, 2008
With identity theft on the rise and personal information at a premium, it's never been more important to be cautious about what you reveal online.
Social-networking sites such as Facebook have largely usurped chatrooms and forums -- at least in the grown-up world -- as fun places to hang around online ...
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
A researcher has spotted a security problem in Facebook that could lead to hackers taking control of user accounts.
The flaw allows a hacker to execute scripts on Facebook that could potentially be used to create a fake log-in page and capture people's passwords, according to the XSSED security blog. The ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
Google's new Web Security for Enterprise service enables companies in the US and Europe to safeguard their internet traffic with protection against viruses and spyware and malicious URLs. According to Google the system "powered by Postini, stops web-borne spyware and viruses before they infiltrate your network and compromise or disable ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Websense Security Labs has been tracking the use of Slide.com as a hosting site for malware for several months. The popular Web 2.0 social networking Web site, ranked 252 by Alexa (Alexa Ranking), is both the largest Facebook application developer and a free and easy place to host malware.
Having tracked the various ways malware is hosted on ...
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