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Phishing Scam On Facebook Poses As A Message From Mark ‘Zurckerberg’
Phishing Scam On Facebook Poses As A Message From Mark ‘Zurckerberg’
Facebook CEO Mark Zurckerberg is not sending out privacy notices, requesting that users verify their accounts. That’s because no such messages would ever come from the Facebook CEO. There’s also that pesky little detail that the CEO of Facebook is …
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New Scam Tricking People By Offering New Facebook Profile Look
New Scam Tricking People By Offering New Facebook Profile Look
Another day, another email scam that uses Facebook to trick unsuspecting users into visiting a shady pharmaceutical site. If the word "another" is confusing you, let's just say that this style of scam isn't making its first lap around the track.
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Facebook Black Is Scamming You
Facebook Black Is Scamming You
As more and more people join social networks like Facebook and Twitter, it only gets easier for scam artists to pick off a few non-discerning users. The latest scam that's making its way across Facebook offers to change your user interface to a cool, new color if you're sick of the boring old Facebook blue.
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Malware Infested Twitter Messages Contain Fake Facebook Links
Malware Infested Twitter Messages Contain Fake Facebook Links
Twitter users need to be on the lookout for a new round of malware-carrying spam messages that are coming from compromised accounts, possibly even from Twitter profiles they trust.
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Fake Facebook Tag Notifications Are Latest Malware
Fake Facebook Tag Notifications Are Latest Malware
If you receive an email that looks like it's from Facebook and says that you've been tagged in a photo, you may want to scour it for abnormalities. That's because the latest malware on the loose involves a common Facebook email notification.
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New Malware Checkpoint For Facebook Allows Users To Be Proactive In Security
New Malware Checkpoint For Facebook Allows Users To Be Proactive In Security
Back in April, Facebook launched the Facebook Anti-Virus Marketplace, which allows users to obtain free trials of anti-virus software from big names like McAfee, Sophos, Symantec, and Microsoft. They also incorporated those company's databases into their own URL blacklist database to better help them sniff out potential threats on the site.
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Facebook Accused Of Killing Google+ Traffic With Faulty Security Alerts
Facebook Accused Of Killing Google+ Traffic With Faulty Security Alerts
Is Facebook purposefully scaring users with questionable security alerts in order to cut traffic to Google+?
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