Hundreds of thousands of Facebook users have fallen for a social-engineering trick which allowed a clickjacking worm to spread quickly over Facebook this holiday weekend.
Affected profiles can be identified by seeing that the Facebook user has apparently "liked" a link:
Messages seen being used by the spammers include:
"LOL This girl gets OWNED after a POLICE OFFICER [...]Reports are coming in that a new attack is spreading virally across Facebook disguised as a video - the third Saturday in a row that the social network has been assaulted in this fashion.
The attacks come in the form of a message, sent by a rogue Facebook application (using names such as HD Media, Xziox [...]
BP has admitted that its official Twitter account was compromised temporarily yesterday by hackers who posted a joke about its attempts to stem the devastating oil leak that has polluted the Gulf of Mexico.
According to a report from Business Insider, an unauthorised posting appeared on the BP America Twitter account at about 8.00am UK time [...]Some of you will be waking up today to find that Facebook's privacy settings have been updated (don't panic if you're a Facebook user and you don't see the new settings yet - they're taking a while to roll out).
Inevitably there has been much debate about this latest development in the ongoing Facebook privacy saga.
To [...]
According to media reports, two men have been arrested in Japan in connection with computer malware which stole personal information and posted it on the internet.
The men are said to have not only created the malware, but also been behind a fraudulent scheme whereby they contacted victims offering to remove their personal data from the [...]First, the good news.
Facebook has simplified its privacy settings.
The incredibly popular social networking site has kept the promise it made last week and come up with an attractive and seemingly simpler replacement for what was a terrifying labyrinth of privacy options.
And there are some positive changes here. For instance, now you'll be able to [...]Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister of the UK, has shocked supporters of Gary McKinnon, by saying that the newly elected British Goverment may not be able to prevent the extradition of the self-confessed NASA hacker.
According to newspaper reports, Nick Clegg told BBC Radio Five Live:
"What I haven't got power to do, neither has the [...]
A British scientist at the University of Reading is claiming to be the first human to be "infected with a computer virus".
According to a report on BBC News, Dr Mark Gasson, a senior research fellow working at the university's Cybernetic Intelligence Research Group, implanted an RFID chip containing what he claimed to be virus code [...]
Even if you don't like someone (or a particular organisation) that's not a reason to commit a criminal act.
In January 2008, a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) struck websites websites belonging to the highly controversial Scientology organisation - flooding them with internet traffic, and making them inaccessible to the outside world.
Yesterday, as The Register reports, a [...]
A school in Woodbridge, Virginia, held a meeting with parents last night to discuss the loss of a USB flash drive containing personal information about students.
Lake Ridge Middle School posted an advisory on its website explaining that the USB drive was used by by school administrators "to contact parents in the event of an emergency [...]