Aug
19
Another scam to steal Twitter users credentials is making the rounds today. The tweets being sent out read “Twitter might start to charge in October, sign this petition to keep the service free! -URL-.”
Aug
16
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Another South Korean service provider has reported a large-scale data breach, leaking usernames and passwords for subscribers worldwide.
Late last month, cybercrooks made off with the personal information of up to 35,000,000 users of popular Korean sites Nate and Cyworld.
This time, it’s the turn of Seoul-based streaming media service GOMTV to suffer a data-spilling intrusion.
(That’s ‘GOM TV’, where GOM means Gretech Online Movies, not ‘GO MTV’, where MTV means Music Television. Gretech Corporation is the Korean legal entity which sets the terms and conditions and the privacy policy to which you agree when you sign up for GOM TV.)
Aug
13
Twitter users are being hit today by messages claiming to link to a new app from Twitter which will track your stalkers.
However, the messages are really designed to steal your Twitter usernames and passwords.
Here’s a typical message that users are seeing:
Twitter finally released an app that tracks your "Stalkers" get it here [LINK]
Aug
13
Early on Friday, visitors of the MySpace website were presented with a curious message that left many users believing that the service had been hacked.
We messed up our code so bad that even puppies and kittens may be in danger. Please turn back ...now.
* Have your pet spayed or neutered.
Aug
12
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Facebook users have a new privacy concern after discovering that the social network apparently stores a list of phone numbers belonging to your Facebook friends and, apparently, to contacts stored in the mobile device that you use to access Facebook’s mobile app. (Before you panic, this list is not publicly visible to your entire social network.)
According to The Washington Post, this Phonebook Contacts feature has been live for “a few years,” though many users are just noting its existence.
Aug
6
Naked Security readers have asked us once again to warn of a rapidly-spreading photo-tagging scam on Facebook, this time with the grammatically curious title This Girls Must Be Watch Out Of Her mind After Making This Video.
Here’s one wise Facebook user’s advice:
