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14

Man in wheelchair falls down elevator shaft – Facebook clickjacking scam

Category: Social, Technology Tags: clickjack, Confidence trick, Elevator, facebook, firefox, Lady Gaga, Mozilla Firefox, NoScript, social network, Social networks, Spam, Video, Vulnerability Leave a Comment

A shocking video of a man in a wheelchair falling down an elevator shaft? Is that really what you want to watch?

Well, if it is, then you’re just the kind of person that a newly-discovered Facebook scam is looking for.

Messages on the social network have been seen like the following:

Man in wheelchair falls down the elevator shaft *SHOCKING VIDEO*
[LINK]
This Video is really shocking. a man in a wheelchair is falling down the elevator shaft.

Google Doodle Pays Tribute To Freddie Mercury

Category: Social, Technology Tags: Birthday, Brian May, Freddie Mercury, Freddie Mercury Birthday, Freddie Mercury Death, Freddie Mercury Google Doodle, Getty Images, google, google doodle, Google Doodles, Google logo, HIV, Lady Gaga, Les Paul Leave a Comment

Image by Getty Images via @daylife

The latest Google Doodle, which went live for some on September 4, pays tribute to Freddie Mercury, who would have celebrated his 65th birthday on September 5.

In June, Google wowed the web with their interactive tribute to master guitarist Les Paul and inspired countless Google guitar tutorials.

This time around, they’ve honored the rock band Queen’s lead vocalist, who battled HIV for years before dying on November 24th, 1991 at the age of 45.

A video, which appears over the Google logo, features an animated tribute to Mercury, highlighting Queen’s 1978 hit “Don’t Stop Me Now.”

Why you shouldn’t trust Google+ Verified Accounts

Category: Social, Technology Tags: Alyssa Milano, Britney Spears, Celebrity, Confidence trick, Dolly Parton, google, google plus, Lady Gaga, Malware, Public figure, social network, Spam, twitter, verified accounts Leave a Comment

Google may have started to roll out verification badges for celebrities and public figures who have Google+ accounts. But, unfortunately, it’s not going to close the door to fraud on the fledgling social network.

The idea is to make it easier for members of the public to tell if they’re the person you’ve added to a Google+ circle is the real Dolly Parton, the real Britney Spears or the real Alyssa Milano.

According to a Google+ post by Googler Wen-Ai Yu about the initiative, verified accounts have a grey checkmark next to their name. Rolling your mouse over the tick, shows that it is a “verified name”.

So, for instance, Britney Spears now has a verified account on Google+ :

Your Facebook Profile Stalkers exposed? No, it’s a rogue application spreading virally

Category: Social, Technology Tags: Confidence trick, Confidentiality, facebook, Lady Gaga, social network, Splash screen, twitter, View, World of Warcraft Leave a Comment

Messages are spreading rapidly on Facebook claiming to reveal a way to find out who has been secretly viewing your profile.

Here are a couple of examples:

Brilliant!! Now u can see all your profile stalkers! --> [LINK]

and

WOW!! I can't believe that you can see whose viewing your profile. I've just seen my top 10 profile peekers and I'm shocked on whose Viewing my Profile. You can also see whose viewing your FACEBOOK PROFILE HERE: [LINK]

A direct message from Twitter Administration. Can you tell if it’s legitimate or not?

Category: Social, Technology Tags: Confidence trick, facebook, Lady Gaga, myspace, Pharmaceutical drug, Phishing, Sildenafil, Tadalafil, Trojan horse (computing), twitter Leave a Comment

For a long time we’ve seen spammers, phishers and malware authors concealing their advertising pitches, scams and malicious payloads by pretending to be a message from a social network, whether it claims to originate from Facebook, Twitter or even MySpace.

Here’s one of the latest we caught today, claiming to come from Twitter.

Twitter-er!

You have 2 direct message from Twitter Administration
[LINK]

The Twitter Administration

Zynga Introduces PrivacyVille Game To Teach People About Privacy

Category: Social, Technology Tags: CityVille, facebook, FarmVille, Initial public offering, Lady Gaga, Privacy, Security, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Zynga Leave a Comment

Image representing Zynga as depicted in CrunchBase

Image via CrunchBase

Zynga‘s newest game won’t let you grow corn. But it will teach you about online privacy.

The game, called PrivacyVille, is intended to help users learn more about Zynga’s privacy practices and also gives people access to additional privacy resources.

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