San Jose (ip-192.com): Cybercriminals have made a fundamental shift in strategy, abandoning traditional mass spam attacks in favor of personalized attacks with a greater financial impact on targeted organizations, a new security report from Cisco finds. The targeted attacks focus on intellectual property theft by deploying malware directed at a specific user or group of [...]
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Twitter now scans for phishing links
San Francisco (ip-192.com): Twitter takes aim at phishing websites and other malicious attacks against users, the popular micro-blogging service said in a blog post. "By routing all links submitted to Twitter through this new service, we can detect, intercept, and prevent the spread of bad links across all of Twitter. Even if a bad link [...]
Filed Under: News, Social Networks Tagged With: Blogging, Cyber security, Google, Malware, Phishing, Social network, Twitter
Cisco: Cyber Crooks target Social Media
San Francisco (ip-192.com): Cisco Systems, Inc. just released its 2009 Annual Security Report, saying that new threats are replacing old-school phishing scams. "Social media and the data-theft Trojans are the things that are really in their ascent," said Patrick Peterson, a Cisco researcher. "You can see them replacing a lot of the old-school things." The [...]
Filed Under: Hardware, News, Social Networks, Software Tagged With: Adobe Flash, Cisco, Cyber security, Exploits, Facebook, LinkedIn, Malware, MySpace, Phishing, Social media, Social network, Trojan, Twitter, YouTube
$711M verdict in Facebook anti-spam suit
Palo Alto (ip-192.com): “Fight the spammers” is a massage Facebook seems to hear loud and clear from its users. The social networking site sued Internet marketers Sanford Wallace, Adam Arzoomanian and Scott Shaw in February for allegedly obtaining the login credentials for accounts and accessing people's Facebook sites without their permission. The spammers did send [...]
Filed Under: News, Social Networks Tagged With: Cyber security, Facebook, Phishing, Security, Social network, Spam
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