Tag Archives: social networks
Worms Everywhere!!!

Worms Everywhere!!!

As much as we all love our social networks, we are also well aware that they are prime targets of people engaged in cyber crimes. These cybercriminals are often crafty enough to go undetected, pass through online security measures and lure users to clicking their seemingly harmless links. Often worm and virus links engage in spam attacks that can flood user profiles with links, some even coming from people on their friends list. Here are some of the latest Twitter and Facebook spam attacks that can compromise a user’s online safety.

Facebook’s Beacon Lawsuit for Privacy Violations

Facebook’s Beacon Lawsuit for Privacy Violations

Tweet How closely do you read the privacy notice of various sites that you use online, especially social networking sites? For Facebook users, they became part of a program called Beacon that published the users actions on other sites to their Facebook profile. To do this, Facebook was gathering data on the activity of its [...]