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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 September 9, 2009	IRS Spoof Latest Cutwail Spam Scam McAfee's MX Logic says new botnet spam campaign targets paranoid taxpayers at more than 90,000 messages an hour.
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 February 2, 2010	Spammers Pedaling Haiti, World Cup Scams Latest analysis finds spike in malware hidden in messages about major world news events.
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 February 12, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Botnet Operators Gearing Up for Valentine's Day Spammers try to play Cupid, with a dark twist.
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.
InternetNews August 6, 2009	Twitter, Facebook Hit in Denial-of-Service Attacks Social media phenoms Twitter and Facebook this morning suffered bouts of downtime - with each blaming a denial-of-service (DDoS) attack for its woes.
InternetNews September 15, 2009 David Needle	Big AIM Update Taps Social Networks The biggest new feature to AOL's instant message client allows users to connect to social networks like Facebook and Twitter.
InternetNews April 11, 2008 Susan Kuchinskas	Web 2.0 in Enterprise Needs a Lock Sans security controls, company-hosted blogs and wikis make it all too easy to post malware. Then, the trusting, sharing culture of Web 2.0 encourages others to click on the link.
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 October 30, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Spammers Hit MobileMe, Google Blogspots With new automated tools to help them, spammers are getting better at cracking CAPTCHA - a program that protects Web sites by generating and grading tests that humans can pass but computers cannot
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 December 12, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Web 2.0 and Cloud Tech: A Spammers' Paradise? With the proliferation of the cloud, spammers will find it becoming ever easier to ply their trade.
Search Engine Watch June 19, 2010 Johnny Widerlund	Social Media: The Privacy and Security Repercussions How risky is our online behavior? A closer look at social media's privacy and security vulnerabilities.
InternetNews May 21, 2009 Alex Goldman	Phishers Strike Facebook in Latest Assault Facebook is fighting back against the most recent attack.
InternetNews September 28, 2009	Reddit Snuffs Out XSS Worm Social news service Reddit is in the process of recovering from a worm that pummeled the site with malicious comments.
InternetNews November 20, 2009	Symantec's 'Unlucky 13' Security Trends for 2010 Hackers and malware purveyors are becoming more sophisticated, meaning computer users need to become wiser and more proactive, too.
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.
InternetNews December 5, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Latest Facebook Attack Stems from Previous One Businesses with Facebook links must watch out.
InternetNews September 8, 2010	Apple Spruces Up Ping Social Net New social network on iTunes attracts more than 1 million users and more than its fair share of spam.
InternetNews October 1, 2009	Internet Never More Dangerous: Study Report finds a 585 percent spike in fake anti-malware and security software programs in the first half of 2009.
InternetNews June 2, 2010	Facebook Users Fend Off 'Likejacking' Attacks Hackers looking to take over Web sessions via Facebook are hiding malware under click-inducing, socially engineered links.
InternetNews September 16, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Facebook Hits 300M, Says Now Making Real Money Rapid growth turns into positive cash flow for social networking giant.
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.
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.
InternetNews September 9, 2009	Businesses of All Sizes Get SaaS-y About Security Escalating security threats to corporate networks has IT departments turning to cloud-based alternatives to on-site appliances.
InternetNews January 15, 2009 Richard Adhikari	The Web's Latest Threat: Smarter 'Zombies' Hacker-controlled PCs are outwitting security software - and are growing in number.
InternetNews February 9, 2010	McAfee Finds Spike In Malware From China A new study by security software vendor McAfee finds a growing number of cyber attacks originating in China and predicts even more malware scams will target fans of popular social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.
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 April 30, 2009 Michelle Megna	Facebook Fights Second Phishing Attack Facebook battles attackers seeking users' login information.
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 January 15, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Hackers to Take Aim at the Cloud, Virtualization Malware authors and hackers are looking to take advantage of the newest developments in enterprise technology.
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.
Entrepreneur September 2009	The Twittering Class How social media can elevate your company's online cred.
InternetNews November 15, 2010	Malicious Spam Surges in 3Q: Report Kaspersky Lab report finds the volume of malicious spam soared in the third quarter, keeping security software firms and consumers on high alert.
InternetNews December 23, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Subject Lines Spammers Can't Resist Any time you see an e-mail with one of these subject lines, delete it without opening if you want to stay safe.
InternetNews November 5, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Spammers Latch on to Obama Victory President-elect Barack Obama's campaign leveraged social networking all the way to victory in last night's election. But Obama's online presence has attracted some problems, too.
InternetNews September 23, 2009	Do Not Pass Go: Malware Taps Phony 'Monopoly' Unsolicited invitation to play an online version of the popular board game can turn your computer into a spam-spewing zombie.
InternetNews May 26, 2009 Alex Goldman	Spam Now More Than 90% of All E-Mail Spammers are increasingly directing users to compromised social networks while botnets' influence grows, according to MessageLabs.
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 March 3, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Digg Hackers Strike Next at YouTube Attacks are on the rise, with malware authors dabbling in spreading worms and scareware via comments.
InternetNews September 25, 2009	Twitter URLs Again Under Siege by Hackers Hackers are taking advantage of the popular microblogging site's limitations to spread malware.
InternetNews November 17, 2010	Stuxnet, Mobile Threats Top 3Q Malware Report Security software vendor McAfee's 3Q Threats Report takes note of some older malware scams from the past and some new and discouraging new ones.
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