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My Space Page Booby-trapped With Windows Update Malware
This just in from The Register . Researchers at Mcafee have discovered a booby-trapped profile on MySpace that tricks users to download malware on their computers.
How? When you visit that page, you see a pop up that looks strikingly like the windows update alert. It prompts you to download updates for your computer. One click [...]
2008 And The New Phishing Sites
It is 2008 and information security experts from all over have unanimously predicted that phishing and other forms of social engineering will continue to be rampant… only this time, they will target the hugely popular social security sites.
Over the last couple of years, the popularity of sites like MySpace, Facebook, Orkut and Bebo has risen [...]