How to Win Friends and Steal Their Facebook Accounts

CANCUN–Facebook is a lot of things, and one of the things that it’s become of late is a fertile green field for attackers and scammers of all stripes. The Koobface worm is perhaps the most famous threat to hit the network, but the more mundane ones, such as scammers generating fake profiles...

New Clickjacking Scam Uses Facebook, Javascript, Our Primate Brain To Spread

A researcher at Kaspersky Lab is warning of a new scam that pastes racy photos to victims’ Facebook pages while forcing them to view Web-based advertisements promoted by the scammers. Writing on the Securelist blog, Kaspersky Lab Expert David Jacoby said that the scam was circulating among Facebo...