More Sophisticated Attacks to Hound Facebook, Twittter – McAfee
Online security firm McAfee Labs on Friday warned that social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter will face increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks in 2010 as applications for this platforms also increase.
In a statement, McAfee said that the boom in Facebook and Twitter applications last year has also [...]
Access to the official website of the popular Internet messaging service Twitter were temporarily blocked by hackers early Friday morning, redirecting online traffic into the website of a group calling itself “The Iranian Cyber Army.”
Millions of Twitter users found it difficult to log-in into the website on Friday as they continuously being redirected to a [...]
Florida’s Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee has ordered all judges and lawyers in the state to “unfriend” each other on the popular social networking website Facebook to avoid future compromise.
The ruling, which came out on November 17, stated that online friendships among judges and lawyers could create an impression that they are being influenced with their [...]
Nathalie Blanchard, a Canadian woman who was on a long-term leave due to major depression, allegedly lost her benefits after her insurance agent with Manulife found a Facebook photo of her, appearing that she was having a good time.
In an interview, Blanchard said that she has been on leave for over a year from her [...]
Firewall Vendor Palo Alto Networks, in a study, said on Thursday that social networking and digitally-based collaborations are now consuming large chunks of enterprise networks.
With the growth of social networking, the risks involved in using such platforms also followed suit.
Based on the study, the use of popular social networking websites has significantly increased in the [...]
Security and administrative loop holes in popular social networking website Facebook have been bared after a group calling itself “Control Your Info” hijacked some 300 groups sites.
Technology experts believe that the attack on Facebook groups’ sites will prove that Facebook has been negligent in implementing its security measures. The experts also pointed that Control Your [...]
Online hackers and fraudsters are not only after electronic banking accounts, gaming accounts, and emails. According to a report released by the IBM’s X-Force Internet Security, phishers have started attacking social networking sites to steal information from users.
The report shows that Facebook, which has 300 million users worldwide, is the top choice of online criminals [...]
Social networking giant Facebook has scored another legal victory after the US District Court in San Jose, California on Thursday ordered “Spam King” to pay $711 million in damages over unsolicited mails sent to users webpages.
Sanford Wallace, also know as Spam King, was ordered by the court to pay the social website $711 million for [...]
Peek, the company that specializes in affordable texting and email-only mobile devices, has launched a new gadget called TwitterPeek, which is a Tweet-only device and was designed for frugal Twitter users.
For an introductory price of $99 at Amazon.com, Peek aims to attract heavy Twitter users who wanted to save up on their mobile phone bills.
Amol [...]
The use of social networking websites like Facebook, LinkedIn, and MySpace has posed serious new challenges to businesses operating around the world as technological advancement go beyond what is required in financial institutions, a new report from securities regulator showed on Tuesday.
In his speech, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) chief executive Richard Ketchum revealed that [...]
