Posts Tagged ‘Sophos

If you use Facebook, there’s a good chance you’ve encountered some app or some friend claiming they’ve found a way for you to see who has been viewing your profile. Chances are, it was a scam.  In fact, a few months ago, there were reports circulating about such scams. One in particular, security firm Sophos [...]

A new clickjacking worm is spreading through Facebook via the ‘Like’ feature. The attack, which is said to have hit hundreds of thousands of users, uses a combination of social engineering and clickjacking exploit makes it appear as if a user has “liked” a link. The messages that are being used in the link text [...]

The United States continues to be the main source of spam, relaying more than 13 percent of global spam, according to a new report from Sophos. China has had a significant drop in the amount of spam originating from that country, falling out of the top twelve and coming in at 15th place for relaying [...]

Yesterday we wrote about a new phishing attack on Twitter, which lured unsuspecting users into giving away their Twitter credentials. The compromised accounts were then used to spread the attack further via direct messages containing text such as “lol, is this you”, “Lol. this is me??”, “lol , this is funny” etc. IT security firm [...]

Facebook users still haven’t mastered the whole “privacy thing” when it comes to sharing personal information with others, a study from security firm Sophos finds. Go to Source


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