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Beware of Phishing Fraud

pcuserz — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:00:30 +0000

Beware of phishing fraud, which could lead to identity theft. Phishing fraud is a problem with recent increased popularity of online banking and social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook and Friendster.

The term phishing comes from the analogy of fishing. In the scam bait used to convince victims to give out information such as passwords and credit card numbers. Bait is usually a place for emergency and one of the victims’ friends or trusted Web sites, asking for information to solve all problems with your account.

Facebook Login Phishing is one of many phishing fraud available. The website is designed to look very similar to Facebook. You must be very careful to check the URL in your Web browser when you are prompted to input personal or financial information. You can search forFacebook Login Tips to learn more about the security breach and how to avoid it.

Other goals are typical phishing sites for online banking, PayPal, the IRS and credit card companies. Internet users must be vigilant and always double check to make sure the site gives you information to is actually the most reliable site. Phishing has snowball effect. One of the phisher has your login information is very easy to get in touch with friends, posing as you, and get information too.

Anti-phishing software is mandatory for anyone who has Internet access. Most Internet service providers have included some security measures as part of their online security software. Most browsers are also accessories that can detect most phishing fraud. Unfortunately, these measures are insufficient. Some fraudsters have found other ways to cheat or avoid the anti-phishing, which is necessary to be extra careful of unknown emails and messages. If you believe you were the victim of a phishing scam is very important to inform the company that the phisher claimed to be.

[News] No Facebook at work in most US companies

pcuserz — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:00:45 +0000

WASHINGTON — More than half of US companies do not allow employees to visit social networks such as Facebook, MySpace or Twitter while at work, according to a new survey.

Fifty-four percent of the chief information officers (CIOs) for 1,400 companies surveyed across the United States said workers were “prohibited completely” from visiting social networks while on the job.

Nineteen percent said employees were allowed to visit social networks “for business purposes only” while 16 percent said they allowed “limited personal use.”

Ten percent of those surveyed said there were no restrictions on visiting social networks at work.

The survey of 1,400 companies with at least 100 employees was released this week and was conducted by an independent research firm for Robert Half Technology, a California-based provider of information technology professionals. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.6 percent.

Dave Willmer, executive director of Robert Half Technology, said “using social networking sites may divert employees’ attention away from more pressing priorities, so it’s understandable that some companies limit access.

“For some professions, however, these sites can be leveraged as effective business tools, which may be why about one in five companies allows their use for work-related purposes,” he said. – AFP

Secret No More

pcuserz — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:13:07 +0000

Click Here for Sir John’s wife’s Facebook Snapshot

The new head of MI6 has been left exposed by a major personal security breach after his wife published intimate photographs and family details on the Facebook website.

Sir John Sawers is due to take over as chief of the Secret Intelligence Service in November, putting him in charge of all Britain’s spying operations abroad.

But his wife’s entries on the social networking site have exposed potentially compromising details about where they live and work, who their friends are and where they spend their holidays.

Amazingly, she had put virtually no privacy protection on her account, making it visible to any of the site’s 200million users who chose to be in the open-access ‘London’ network – regardless of where in the world they actually were.

There are fears that the hugely embarrassing blunder may have compromised the safety of Sir John’s family and friends. …more on DailyMail.co.uk

I wonder if 007 had also a Facebook account?
The best way is to monitor your computer software and watch your children online.

Cybercrime on the rise in Facebook

pcuserz — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:17:53 +0000

BOSTON, June 30 — Cybercrime is rapidly spreading on Facebook as fraudsters prey on users who think the world’s top social networking site is a safe haven on the Internet.

Lisa Severens, a clinical trials manager from Worcester, Massachusetts, learned the hard way. A virus took control of her laptop and started sending pornographic photos to colleagues.

“I was mortified about having to deal with it at work,” said Severens, whose employer had to replace her computer because the malicious software could not be removed.

Cybercrime, which costs US companies and individuals billions of dollars a year, is spreading fast on Facebook because such scams target and exploit those naive to the dark side of social networking, security experts say.

While News Corp’s MySpace was the most-popular hangout for cyber criminals two years ago, experts say hackers are now entrenched on Facebook, whose membership has soared from 120 million in December to more than 200 million today.

MySpace shrinks as Facebook, Twitter and Bebo grab its users

pcuserz — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:42:14 +0000

MySpace shrinks as Facebook, Twitter and Bebo grab its users.

MARCH 30 – The “Place for Friends” is starting to feel lonely. MySpace, the Rupert Murdoch-owned website once synonymous with social networking, is losing popularity and key staff in its biggest troubles since launching five years ago.

Latest figures show that Murdoch is being beaten in the fight for social networks. MySpace suffered a drop in visitor traffic last month and is now less than half the size of its younger rival, Facebook. Three executives recently quit the one-time darling of the Internet and there is speculation its co-founders will follow.

MySpace’s loss of status as the cool place to be is an object lesson in the notoriously fickle Internet, where today’s cultural icon is tomorrow’s passing fad.

… read more

Will ever MySpace make a “comeback” and take over the top?

We’ll see about that.

It a good competition anyway.

Let the best man wins.

jail house rocks!

pcuserz — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:13:00 +0000

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‘Jail is just like being on holiday’: Killer boasts on Facebook from his prison cell
LONDON, Feb 18 – A convicted killer has boasted on Facebook that being in jail is like being on holiday.

Ashley Graham even put up a picture of himself on the social networking website “relaxing” in his cell.

The 27-year-old is serving life at HMP Lindholme in South Yorkshire for stabbing a man through the heart.

But he manages to access Facebook every day by using a mobile phone that was smuggled in to the jail.

The killer’s boasts are likely to reignite claims that prisoners enjoy an easy life in Britain’s jails.

In one update Graham wrote: “HMP (Her Majesty’s Prison) Holiday’s a place where men can come for a nice relaxin break from their moanin women and crying kids. No stress just rest.”

Astonishingly his friends on the social networking site agreed.
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Facebook, Second Visited Website After Google This Christmas – softpedia

pcuserz — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 07:41:00 +0000

According to the Internet monitoring company Hitwise, which keeps track of some one million websites, Facebook registered the second number of hits of all online visitors this holiday season, second only to the search engine Google. On Christmas Eve, the website accounted for 1 in 22 Internet accesses, which makes it the biggest social media outlet in the world. With these numbers, it even exceeded YouTube in the number of people logging on to it.…read more