Alleged anti-social behaviour provokes lawsuit.
Facebook has launched lawsuits against a trio of alleged high profile hijackers and spammers.

A lawsuit filed in an unspecified federal court charges Jeremi Fisher, Philip Porembski, and Ryan Shimeall of "phishing Facebook users and sending spam from their accounts", the social networking website said in a statement. Also named as defendants are Choko Systems, Harm, Inc., and iMedia Online Services, LLC, three firms associated with the alleged spammers.  Story is here.

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Facebook is a favorite hunting ground for hackers. The vast pool of users offered by this popular social network and the ease with which accounts can be hacked make it a highly attractive channel for spreading malware. Such is the case with the latest variant of a well-known worm: Koobface.GK. The bait consists of a Christmas greetings video hosted on a YouTube page. On playing the video, or clicking a link on the page, users will download and install the worm. Image available here

When the virus is installed on a computer, the following image appears and if users fail to enter the corresponding ‘captcha’ (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart), it threatens to reboot the computer within three minutes. When the three minutes are up, nothing happens, but the computer is rendered unusable. Every time the captcha text is entered, the worm registers a new domain where the video will be hosted in order to continue being distributed.

Social networks have become one of the methods most frequently used by hackers to spread their creations, due to the false sense of security many users have regarding the content published on these networks. Users generally trust the messages and content they receive, and consequently hackers get a high level of response through these channels.

Facebook will close down its Beacon advertising system as part of a
settlement of a class action lawsuit.  Beacon notified Facebook users'
friends of their activities and purchases on other websites.  The
lawsuit filed just over a year ago alleged that the actions of Facebook
and its Beacon affiliates violated the Electronic Communications Privacy
Act, the Video Privacy Protection Act and several other laws.
Details Here

And people still use Facebook?  How soon you forget.

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Facebook in particular is notorious as a place where inboxes are stuffed with everything from drink requests to cause requests.
For some social networkers, clicking on such requests is as natural as breathing.
Unfortunately, the bad guys know this and will send you links that appear to be from legitimate friends. Open the link and you're inviting a piece of malware to infect your machine. Christophe Veltsos, president of Prudent Security, describes this as being "click-happy" and warns, "Don't click unless you're ready to deal with drive-by downloads and zero-day attacks."

Don't fall prey and end up getting your computer infected.
Here is a Google Search for current security problems on Facebook.

Alleged anti-social behaviour provokes lawsuit.
Facebook has launched lawsuits against a trio of alleged high profile hijackers and spammers.

A lawsuit filed in an unspecified federal court charges Jeremi Fisher, Philip Porembski, and Ryan Shimeall of "phishing Facebook users and sending spam from their accounts", the social networking website said in a statement. Also named as defendants are Choko Systems, Harm, Inc., and iMedia Online Services, LLC, three firms associated with the alleged spammers.  Story is here.

Protect yourself with Email Service from 1USA, Tech Support from 1USA and SafeSpace software.  Click on the Register link.

Facebook is a favorite hunting ground for hackers. The vast pool of users offered by this popular social network and the ease with which accounts can be hacked make it a highly attractive channel for spreading malware. Such is the case with the latest variant of a well-known worm: Koobface.GK. The bait consists of a Christmas greetings video hosted on a YouTube page. On playing the video, or clicking a link on the page, users will download and install the worm. Image available here

When the virus is installed on a computer, the following image appears and if users fail to enter the corresponding ‘captcha’ (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart), it threatens to reboot the computer within three minutes. When the three minutes are up, nothing happens, but the computer is rendered unusable. Every time the captcha text is entered, the worm registers a new domain where the video will be hosted in order to continue being distributed.

Social networks have become one of the methods most frequently used by hackers to spread their creations, due to the false sense of security many users have regarding the content published on these networks. Users generally trust the messages and content they receive, and consequently hackers get a high level of response through these channels.

Facebook will close down its Beacon advertising system as part of a
settlement of a class action lawsuit.  Beacon notified Facebook users'
friends of their activities and purchases on other websites.  The
lawsuit filed just over a year ago alleged that the actions of Facebook
and its Beacon affiliates violated the Electronic Communications Privacy
Act, the Video Privacy Protection Act and several other laws.
Details Here

And people still use Facebook?  How soon you forget.

 read more ...

Facebook in particular is notorious as a place where inboxes are stuffed with everything from drink requests to cause requests.
For some social networkers, clicking on such requests is as natural as breathing.
Unfortunately, the bad guys know this and will send you links that appear to be from legitimate friends. Open the link and you're inviting a piece of malware to infect your machine. Christophe Veltsos, president of Prudent Security, describes this as being "click-happy" and warns, "Don't click unless you're ready to deal with drive-by downloads and zero-day attacks."

Don't fall prey and end up getting your computer infected.
Here is a Google Search for current security problems on Facebook.