Facebook Invitation and the Olympic Torch
Old hoaxes never die. They just get transplanted to Facebook.
Old hoaxes never die. They just get transplanted to Facebook.
Earlier this month, we reported on the massive new Koobface campaign making the rounds through Facebook and how it tricked users into downloading and running it through that tenet of social engineering, the fake codec. We now have a video showing how the Koobface worm tricks users into running it: NOTE: The audio is not
Well, this actually isn’t a lie, but a lot of what you read on the web are lies designed to steal money or identities. If you go to a web page and it says you need a new codec or new software to view a video or picture, or pretty much anything, the odds are
The top ten (twenty, twenty-five…) season doesn’t seem to have finished yet: the latest to cross my radar was something like seven ways of surviving the recession, which I’m sure is of interest to all of us, but not really in scope for this blog. So here’s a snippet from our 2008 Global Threat Report,
And finally… Don’t use cracked/pirated software! These are easy avenues for introducing malware into, or exploiting weaknesses in, a system. This also includes the illegal P2P (peer-to-peer) distribution of copyrighted audio and video files: some of these are counterfeited or modified so that they can be used directly in the malware distribution process. Even if