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Viral Facebook copyright message is nothing but a scam

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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If you recently came across a viral Facebook privacy notice that mentioned copyrights of your content, photos and videos, you should be forewarned that this notice is yet another Facebook scam. Facebook recently updated their privacy guidelines and also allowed users to comment on these changes for the first time. Unfortunately, this has led to […]

5 things you should never reveal on social networks

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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Many people fail to notice how their online lives endanger their day to day lives. An overload of information shared online, especially over social networks, is perhaps the biggest risk. Constant access to our devices and phones also allows us to share information at a level never seen before. But on the other hand, this […]

Have you used these easy and effective Quick Heal Parental Control tools?

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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Parents of school going kids have several questions when it comes to cyber security. Some of these issues involve the freedom and time that should be given to kids when they access the Internet. Other questions revolve around the mode of access in the first place. Today it is very common to see pre-teens with […]

5 effortless steps to block Facebook spam from reaching your news feed

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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We recently posted an article about Facebook ‘Like’ scams and the truth behind them. This post talked about how some parties created fake pages to invoke sympathy and got hundreds of thousands of likes and comments as a result. This in turn enhanced the Edge Rank of a page and spread as spam to even […]

How do Facebook ‘Like’ scams reach thousands of users?

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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If you look, you will find countless Facebook pages that have hundreds of thousands of likes and comments. But are these real? Some of the posts invite people to write a comment to see what happens. But predictably, nothing happens and this is all part of a large-scale Facebook scam. These ‘stories’ then appear on […]

Fake Payment Confirmation’ scam emails

  • Ayush Sonavane / 13 years
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A series of new spam emails that target computer users and attempt to infect them with a variant of a ZBOT trojan have been discovered. The e-mail attempts to persuade a recipient to open an attachment and claims that the said attachment contains a payment confirmation for the recipient. However, the “TTcopy.zip” attachment contains a […]

Hurricane Sandy could lead to a malicious storm in cyberspace

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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Hurricane Sandy is one of the biggest storms to ever hit the East coast of the United States in years. Cyber criminals are duly taking advantage of the massive number of people who are keenly following the related news updates. It is a sad state of affairs that such events often lead to several cases […]

Scammers steal credit card details in ways you never thought of

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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Cyber criminals and malicious scammers are constantly at work to devise new ways to steal confidential user data. Unfortunately, such attacks are not just restricted to the Internet. A recently discovered spate of attacks enables scammers to steal credit/debit card details and these methods are increasingly carried out in the physical world. In brief, here […]

Security news updates from the last week

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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Android apps are still not completely secure, say German researchers German researchers have found that heavily encrypted Android apps are also susceptible to losing crucial data about their users. They tested several free apps from Google Play and found that they could successfully carry out man-in-the-middle attacks against most of these. They were also able […]