Posts Tagged ‘clickjacking’
IN THE HEADLINES: Phishing Continues to Be a Favorite for Scammers
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● November 25, 2011
A new survey by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) reported 112,472 unique phishing attacks worldwide counted phishing attacks against 520 target institutions, more than twice the number recorded a year ago. These targets included the best known banks, e-commerce sites, social networking services, ISPs, and lottery organizations. Exactly the kinds of places consumer like you [...]
FACEBOOK SCAM: Tag, Click — and You’re It.
Posted by: ID Guardian in: ● July 15, 2011
This morning, IDGuardian posted an alert on the Facebook fan page about this clickjacking scam, but as it has appeared several times in the administrator’s Facebook feed, a blogpost is in order. You may see in your feed a posting similar to this: Confirmed by BloggerClick.com, this is another clickjacking scam.
IN THE HEADLINES: Vigilance over Osama bin Laden (and other Facebook) Malware
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● May 6, 2011
Many years ago, when I was working in the intelligence community, I was one of the few Irishmen invited inside Britain’s ultra secret Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ. One of my clearest memories as I drove up to the heavily guarded front gate that morning was a giant sign with the words “The State of [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: More Facebook scams surface
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● December 23, 2010
I love Facebook. I just want to put that out there. I think it has changed the way individuals, families, businesses, and governments come together, connect, catch up, share, influence, and vent. But as we all know, when you create something so big and so quickly, and give hundreds of millions of people around the [...]
Weekly News Wrap-Up for 18 June 2010
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● June 18, 2010
Can your business have its identity stolen? Identity theft is usually thought of as an individual, personal crime. While businesses often end up picking up the costs, thieves rarely focus on businesses as the target of their cloning. That’s changing. Identity theft is based on impersonation – stealing or otherwise acquiring information about a real [...]
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