by AskSonnie | Feb 11, 2011 | Beware, Cyber Risks, Facebook
In underground forums, blackhat hackers are exchanging notes on how to best scam Facebook users. The one selling like hotcake, because of usability is NeoApp, a malicious application intended to remotely send spammy messages . Symantec warned, that malicious...
by AskSonnie | Feb 5, 2011 | Beware, Cyber Risks, Facebook
Lovely-faces.com, a new dating site, was created and launched using “borrowed” profiles from Facebook. Fox news revealed that the popular social networking site said it was “investigating the alleged identity theft Friday and will take...
by AskSonnie | Jan 18, 2011 | Beware, Cyber Risks, Facebook
Update 1/20/11: Facebook delays implementation Recent development in Facebook shows that your home address and phone numbers are now shared to 3rd party developers as announced in their developers blog. Sophos questioned the move saying the dangers outweigh the...
by AskSonnie | Jan 13, 2011 | Beware, Cyber Risks, Internet Resources, Malware/Mal Apps
Update 1.21.11: An example of the ethical issue of hacking: Online Group Denies Ipad Hacking Update 1/16/11: The server of my 2 sites has been under attack for 2 days, affecting hundreds of sites. The black hat hackers redirected all the sites to an “ad”,...
by AskSonnie | Dec 30, 2010 | Beware, Internet Resources
In my post yesterday, we discussed about McAfee’s prediction on cyber threats for 2011. Today, allow me to share Symantecs [the company behind Norton AV’s] security predictions for 2011: New Technologies, New Challenges As technologies become smarter and...
