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Osama Shoot down video scam spreads on Facebook

Facebook users are being tempted to click on links to what purports to be a video of Osama bin Laden being shot, in the latest in a series of scams exploiting the hot news story of the Al Qaeda leader’s death.

The messages appear as follows:

Watch the Osama Shoot down video

Osama Dead – Censored …

A weekend of Click-jacking on Facebook

In this blog post, I will analyze a Facebook scam technique that we’ve seen grow in popularity over the past few weeks, but let’s focus on one example that was circulating this past weekend. As a Websense customer, if you are running our Web Security Software or real-time analytics, your users would have been protected from …

Social networks: Criminal enterprise, Pt. 2

Some low level criminal networks have profiles in everyday social networks. Would researching these profiles during cyber intrusion research risk tipping off the bad guys?

Full story: Latest articles from SC Magazine US Cybercrime Corner

Protecting Privacy on Social Networks

Social networks focus on building relationships/connections among people who share interests, information and activities. Attackers on phishing expeditions exploit these relationships through social engineering tricks. One ruse that  Symantec has observed recently attempts to exploit the "groups" function of a social networking site. (For other recent attack trends on social networking sites, please see …