May 21, 2012 - Hospitals, worried about lack of professionalism and inadvertent leaking of confidential data, are warning doctors not to set up relationships with patients on Facebook and Twitter. Read more
May 21, 2012 - Like Facebook, Twitter wants to know which websites you visit and so it has a system for tracking you as you click from site to site, a fact that leads to a pair of interesting questions: "Did you know that?" (continue reading...) Read more
May 14, 2012 - For some time, we’ve seen site URLs with the dot TK (.tk) extension being spammed by bogus accounts on Twitter to random users. One of our threat researchers in the AV Labs found these particular Tweets quite noteworthy: (continue reading...) Read more
May 9, 2012 - "News" of Margaret Thatcher's death spreads like wildfire on Twitter, after being announced by "Carla Bruni" and reported by a French news outlet. But is it true? And should we be blaming Carla Bruni? (continue reading...) Read more
May 9, 2012 - US neurosurgeon and low-carbohydrate diet guru Dr. Jack Kruse found himself unceremoniously plucked off a cruise ship and deposited on the shore after a tweet including his name mentioned a bio-terrorist attack against the ship. (continue reading...) Read more
May 9, 2012 - As you may know, cybercriminals are no longer limited to Twitter and Facebook as their launchpads for (continue reading...) Read more
April 25, 2012 - “A Strategic Inflection Point is that which causes you to make a fundamental change in business strategy. Nothing less is sufficient.” This quote came from Andy Grove, Intel Co-founder and former CEO. And, while he said this at an annual meeting (continue reading...) Read more
April 16, 2012 - There’s been a couple of rather nasty spam runs taking place on Twitter over the last few days. Heres an example of a rogue URL being spread at the weekend: (continue reading...) Read more
April 16, 2012 - Acai Berry spammers briefly take over Twitter account belonging to Hyatt Hotels. Is your company taking the security of its social media accounts seriously enough? Read more
April 10, 2012 - Twitter recently filed a lawsuit in the San Francisco Federal Court against five of the most aggressive spammers and spam tool providers. The defendants listed in the suit are TweetAttacks,TweetAdder, TweetBuddy, James Lucerno of justinlover.info, and Garland E. Harris (continue reading...) Read more
April 8, 2012 - Twitter has taken its fight against on-line spam to the courthouse, filing suit last Thursday in the US District Court in San Francisco. Here's a summary, plus some tips for you to do your bit to help cut down Twitter spam. (continue reading...) Read more
April 5, 2012 - If you were hit by a bus, and passed on to whatever heaven might exist, would you care about your Facebook page? Probably not. But your loved ones more than likely would. Things like email, websites, and social media profiles (continue reading...) Read more
April 4, 2012 - We have previously discussed how mobile users are led to Japanese one-click fraud by clicking on links in spam or through search results on the Web when performing these actions on smartphones. There is also a third vector (continue reading...) Read more
April 2, 2012 - Avid users of Pinterest should be aware that a large spamrun involving the Twitter account “Pinterestdep” is underway right now, asking users to visit the Twitter page and associated URL. Here’s one spam example in case the Twitter staff (continue reading...) Read more
March 30, 2012 - If you're careless about what applications you allow to access your Twitter account, don't be surprised if you find the bad guys are spamming tweets out in your name without your permission. (continue reading...) Read more
March 29, 2012 - Are you one of the millions of devotees of the Draw Something game? Watch out! Scammers are trying to dupe you into clicking on their links. Read more
March 28, 2012 - In recent years, scammers have flocked towards social networking sites as they have grown and made it easier to access a large number of potential eyeballs to convert into dollars. Brands have found value in leveraging social media to know (continue reading...) Read more
March 21, 2012 - Jenna-Louise Coleman is jumping onboard Doctor Who's TARDIS, and is already having her name abused by Twitter scammers. Read more
March 16, 2012 - We like to think that the avast! voice telling us that our virus database has been updated is almost like a pleasant song, something to cheer us all up, reminding us that nobody needs to sing the PC blues. So it’s (continue reading...) Read more
February 29, 2012 - Chances are that we will see Apple announce an iPad 3 very soon. But don't be duped into believing there's an easy way to get one for free. Read more