Bogus Facebook profiles used to spread malware are overwhelmingly created to appear female, have an unusually high number of ‘friends’ and often claim to be bisexual, a study of the phenomenon has found. Barracuda Networks’ random sampling of 2,884 active Facebook accounts using its Profile Protector tool set out to…
Bogus Facebook accounts easy to spot, new study finds
Bogus Facebook profiles used to spread malware are overwhelmingly created to appear female, have an unusually high number of ‘friends’ and often claim to be bisexual, a study of the phenomenon has found. Barracuda Networks’ random sampling of 2,884 active Facebook accounts using its Profile Protector tool set out to…
US shoe seller says hacker compromised accounts
US online shoe seller Zappos.com was notifying some 24 million customers Monday that a hacker had gained entry to its computer network, but said credit card data was not affected. “We were recently the victim of a cyber attack by a criminal who gained access to parts of our internal…
Facebook worm compromises up to 45,000 accounts
Thousands of Facebook accounts may have been comprised by the Ramnit worm, a security firm has revealed. By Matthew Shaer / January 6, 2012 A worm called Ramnit has targeted Facebook, according to one new report. Reuters Enlarge 0 A computer worm called Ramnit has been used to compromise approximately…
Care2.com social network accounts breached by hackers
Care2.com, a social networking website for activists, has decided to reset the account passwords of almost 18 million registered members after hackers gained access to its servers. The compromise was discovered last Tuesday and, according to the company operating the website, it only affected a limited number of accounts. However,…
7 Free Shell / Cluster Access and Accounts You Might Wanna Try
For those of you who are looking for free shell accounts wherein you can use for tunneling, bypassing firewalls, writing your scripts, run irssi, host your IRC bots and bouncers, practice the command-line, emulate a DECWindows session, etc. you have just come to the right place. Here are 7 free…
Credit card fraud jumps at holidays, so watch accounts carefully
Fraudulent credit card charges are more common at holiday time, so North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper advises that consumers monitor their accounts and read statements carefully. View full post on credit card fraud – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
ProtectMyID: Hosting a #holidayparty? Your personal info could be at risk even in your own home. Lock up important papers and log out of online accounts.
ProtectMyID: Hosting a #holidayparty? Your personal info could be at risk even in your own home. Lock up important papers and log out of online accounts. View full post on Twitter / ProtectMyID View full post on National Cyber Security
Creating Additional Accounts Within IronStratus
This video demonstrates the power of creating multiple accounts within IronStratus by walking you through the use case of adding an entirely separate personal account for home use. View full post on National Cyber Security
Lucky’s urges some customers to close bank accounts in wake of hacking
Hit with more than 1,000 calls from customers saying they’ve been victims of fraud, Lucky Supermarkets is urging shoppers who used self-checkout lanes at nearly two dozen Bay Area stores to close their bank and credit card accounts after a number of its kiosks were hacked. View full post on…