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InternetNews February 2, 2010	Facebook Seen as Biggest Threat to IT Security New survey from Sophos highlights concerns about using social media sites inside the enterprise.
InternetNews August 10, 2009	Cyberattacks' Aftershocks Hit the Web Twitter and Facebook have since bounced back from the the spam and the denial-of-service storm that hit them late last week, but the aftereffects continue to be felt across the Internet.
PC Magazine August 7, 2009 Lance Ulanoff	Twitter's Down and It's All Your Fault The micro-blogging service's difficulties are troubling. Why it's suffering through a DDoS attack is even more upsetting.
InternetNews October 29, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Facebook Worm Redux Taps Google Sites Once again, social networking site Facebook has been hit by the Koobface worm, which has been used to attack it several times since July.
InternetNews February 23, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Malware Authors Exploit Facebook App Is a bogus application making the rounds on Facebook just a failed marketing ploy? Or something more dangerous?
InternetNews October 1, 2009	Facebook Hit With New Spyware Scam Hackers bypassed the social networking site's captchas to create new accounts at will.
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan	Twitter Now Alerts Users To State-Sponsored Attacks More than 20 users received a notice saying their Twitter accounts were among "a small group of accounts that may have been targeted by state-sponsored actors."
InternetNews June 8, 2009 Alex Goldman	Symantec Says Phishers Have New Tools Automated toolkits are making it easier to attack services such as Facebook, Twitter and financial services brands.
InternetNews August 7, 2009	Facebook, Twitter Attacks Aimed for One User An anti-Russian blogger with profiles on a number of sites may have been the intended target of yesterday's attack.
InternetNews March 4, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Experts Warn Koobface Eying More Social Sites Malicious hackers are continuing their attacks on social networking sites, with a new variant of the Koobface worm now spreading its assault on a new crop of the popular sites.
BusinessWeek August 13, 2009 Joel Schectman	Computer Hacking Made Easy Botnet attacks like the one that took down Twitter are becoming so easy and cheap, almost anyone can do it.
InternetNews August 21, 2009	Facebook Pages Publish to Twitter With New Tool Promotional marketing on the top social networking site just got easier with a new tool that automatically publishes Facebook Pages content to Twitter.
InternetNews May 21, 2009 Alex Goldman	Phishers Strike Facebook in Latest Assault Facebook is fighting back against the most recent attack.
InternetNews January 28, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Online Trust: A Thing of the Past? Malware attacks are turning the Web upside down, and complicating the efforts of security vendors and users to cope with the threats.
InternetNews February 25, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Online Trust Takes a Hit in Gmail Chat Phishing Security experts are warning that a phishing attack on Google's Gmail's chat feature not only poses a danger to users, but could be a harbinger of things to come.
InternetNews June 16, 2009 Alex Goldman	Could Twitter Top Google? Twitter can deliver more traffic and better traffic than any search engine, at least according to backer and venture capitalist Fred Wilson.
InternetNews February 11, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Spammers Hijack Facebook Group of 1.5 Million Facebook site is taken over by get-rich-quick and other familiar spam.
InternetNews July 30, 2010	Taking the Measure of the Twitter 'Crime Rate' Researcher at Barracuda Networks has taken the measure of the "crime rate" on Twitter, which ranks somewhere in between e-mail and Facebook on the threat counter.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	Report: 63% Of Users Consider Twitter And Facebook A Source Of News Self-proclaimed social media gurus, listen up: A new study says that more Twitter and Facebook users are turning to the platforms primarily for news.
InternetNews February 17, 2009 Sean Gallagher	Social Networks a Magnet for Malware Just like the crooks robbed the banks because that's where the money is, malware will go where the people are.
InternetNews April 30, 2009 Michelle Megna	Facebook Fights Second Phishing Attack Facebook battles attackers seeking users' login information.
InternetNews December 5, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Latest Facebook Attack Stems from Previous One Businesses with Facebook links must watch out.
InternetNews August 14, 2009	Twitter Used as Botnet Control As bot herders learn to exploit legitimate sites, researchers warn that IT managers will need to monitor social media closely.
InternetNews May 15, 2009 Alex Goldman	Facebook Attacks Threaten All Web Sites Why would users want your user name and password? Perhaps because it could give them access to your money and your e-mail.
InternetNews August 27, 2009	Twitter Said to Suffer Security Flaw Web developer claims Twitter users vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks.
The Motley Fool August 12, 2009 Tim Beyers	Is This the Next Great Tech Disruption? Facebook acquires Twitter rival FriendFeed for roughly $50 million in cash and stock -- and takes one step closer to beating Twitter at its own game.
InternetNews November 23, 2009	Facebook Hit With New CSRF Worm Latest exploit replicates itself through bogus wall postings; security researchers wonder what else is out there.
InternetNews September 16, 2010	SMBs Struggle With Social Media Threats They don't have the cash or IT resources that big companies enjoy, but small and midsized companies aren't shying away from embracing the social media revolution.
InternetNews September 16, 2009 Larry Barrett	Hackers Targeting Web 2.0 Sites at Alarming Rate Security software vendor Websense claims 95 percent of user-generated comments on blogs and message boards are either spam or contain malicious code.
InternetNews January 19, 2011	Enterprises Weigh Social Nets' Risks, Rewards New survey by security software firm Sophos reveals most companies allow employees to visit social networking sites despite obvious risks.
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InternetNews January 14, 2010	IT Needs to Manage Social Networking: Cisco The social craze has taken root in the enterprise. So how are admins coping? Not too well, Cisco finds.
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InternetNews September 21, 2010	Twitter Hit With Mouseover Malware Attack Twitter hit with attack that sees hackers embed JavaScript within URLs in tweets that display a pop-up directing users to malicious or pornographic websites.
InternetNews July 12, 2010	Limiting Social Networks Could Hurt IT Security IT Security Firm Trend Micro says the growing use of social networks like Facebook and Twitter in the enterprise threatens security, but limiting their use could make things worse.
InternetNews January 22, 2010	Twitter Says Flash Flaw's Been Fixed Researcher had alerted Twitter to a flaw he said could expose user's accounts.
The Motley Fool May 18, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Facebook Creams Twitter Facebook isn't waiting around. It's making its own luck, and finding little trouble rounding up believers and advertisers.
The Motley Fool May 13, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Facebook Beats Twitter The pro-Facebook side of the story. Facebook has far more upside than Twitter and its 140 characters.
InternetNews June 18, 2009 Alex Goldman	New Twitter Worm Variant Rears Its Head Latest attack to prey on the micro-blogging phenom.
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