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The Perfect Crime
Your location is now known by your friends and family thanks to the service by Foursquare. This would be the perfect time for a former friend to take revenge against you. This so-called friend you pissed off now wants harm done to you like their worst enemy. The prefect crime is about to unfold. You [...]
Full StoryFacebook Charging Fees?
What if Facebook were to turn off or abbreviate certain features of its popular social network, would you be willing to pay for full access? Let’s say that 10% of the 700 million users were willing to pay a reoccurring monthly fee of $2.99 to enable all features in full. This would equate to almost [...]
Full StorySocial Networking Dangers – Do You Know Your Friends Well?
Internet Security will always be a concern, and as more and more social networks emerge, identity theft is becoming more easier than ever. “Tweeting Thieves” may become the next generation’s new label for “hacker” – and the catch is you don’t need the expertise to recover data from hard drives in order to do it! [...]
Full StoryFacebook Lottery Scam
There’s an email purporting to be from Facebook, claiming that the recipient has won a cash prize of $900,000.00 USD. The email is a phishing scam where the sender is looking to obtain personal information to be used for other illegal activities. This is one of the worst scams I have seen in quite some [...]
Full StoryFacebook Safer with Web of Trust
Facebook and WOT (Web of Trust) go together like peanut butter and jelly. The WOT Firefox and Internet Explorer add-on can help you stay safer from the dangers on Facebook. We all love to share links on Facebook with our friends and family, but sometimes we don’t know the dangers of what we are sharing [...]
Full StoryFacebook The Cyber Criminals Network
The social network giant continues to be targeted by cyber criminals and there’s no evidence on how Facebook will defend against such attacks. One of my biggest concerns is the amount of scams that are displayed via ads on Facebook. When will Facebook start moderating who advertises on their network? Facebook needs to protect its [...]
Full StoryBeware of Facebook Credits Scam
There’s a chat message going around about getting 500 Facebook credits free. If you receive such a message like the image below, don’t click on the link. The message is not being sent from your friend, it’s from a program that has permission to send messages from your friends account. This scam can easily fool [...]
Full StoryCeglia Versus Zuckerberg for Stake in Facebook
It has been said and dragged through the mud that Mark Zuckerberg stole the idea of Facebook from his college buddies; even the movie “The Social Network” depicted such. Many think it’s true that he should split the value among those who created Facebook, but Mark has denied and dismissed these claims. On Monday, Mark [...]
Full StoryFacebook Survey Stalker App
Once again the crooks have re-invented a way to dupe millions of Facebook users into believing they can actually see who has viewed their Facebook wall. The first thing a user will see is the standard Facebook application request dialog – requesting your permission to grant a third-party app access to your Facebook profile. Once [...]
Full StoryFacebook Trojan Spreads Rapidly
This is becoming a big problem and it’s time that Facebook step up and moderate what Apps are shared on their network. Facebook and its 600 million plus users is the perfect playground for cyber criminals to spread their malicious viruses, Trojans and Malware. The problem is users are receiving shares from friends who are [...]
Full StoryFacebook Stalker App Shows Up Again
Once again another stalker app claiming to show you who has looked at your profile and or photos showed up on Facebook Saturday, February 5, but this time Facebook was on the case rather quickly. According to Facebook: “Don’t believe any applications that claim they can show you who’s viewing your profile or photo. They [...]
Full StoryDo You Trust Facebook?
It looks like Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is not safe on his own site. Yesterday, his Facebook page was attacked and many users are now weary of the safety of their information on FB. I am beginning to wonder if Facebook will start to lose its stamina because of all the security issues that [...]
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