A rogue Facebook application was recently discovered to be part of a phishing scam

With all the trouble being caused for social networking websites like Twitter and Facebook, one might start to feel just a little anxious, and not without good reason. The latest problem seems to be one targeting Facebook users.

A rogue Facebook application , as shown in figure 1. below, appears to be sending notifications that lead users to a site that harvests login information. Typically you will receive a message that another user has commented on one of your posts, and this message seems to derive from an application called “sex sex sex and more sex!!!”. Even though this application may seem to be suspicious to the majority of Facebook users who may encounter it, more than 287,000 users have become fans of it.

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Recently security researchers have discovered a “link hack” that may bypass the attempts of MySpace.com to filter and control links on its pages. With this link hacking it is possible that links on MySpace.com pages will redirect visitors to phishing websites. When a visitor lands on a phishing site their personal information can be compromised if they fall victim to the phishing ploy.

What is so dangerous about the discovered “link hack” is the links are displayed as legitimate MySpace.com links that are trusted by visitors and users of MySpace. Websense, a security researching company, recently said the link hack technique allows attackers to create malicious anchor tags over the majority of a given MySpace.com page. Many social sites such as MySpace.com allow their users to change the look and layout of personalized pages. With the “link hack” method in the wrong hands it could potentially redirect a large number of visitors to certain MySpace.com or phishing pages that a hacker chooses to setup.

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Don’t get bitten by IRS Phishing scams.

Hackers are using the IRS tax season to target their malicious scams on computer users. Recently it is known that hackers are sending out messages that mask as IRS emails regarding tax matters. They have even taken the liberty to create websites that look like the IRS site where they can obtain a user’s personal information.

Phishers are sending out a plethora of email messages pretending to be IRS messages. The phishing tactics of the fake IRS messages are so advanced that they may redirect you to a website that resembles the IRS site and upon entering your personal information it may direct you to the real IRS covering its tracks so you will never know your information was stolen. Currently the sources of the IRS phishing scams redirect the victims to sites hosted in Russia. The IRS is not aware of this issue but they do have a page devoted to warning users about phishing scams.

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A new phishing fraud was identified today, that is so insidious it forced natwest bank to close down portions of its online bank to UK customers.
Technical details on how the scam is carried out are still unknown, but it appears as if an e-mail is being sent along with a trojan or other type [...]

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How Not to Get Hooked by a “Phishing” Scam
Internet scammers casting about for people’s financial information have a new way to lure unsuspecting victims: They go “phishing”.
Phishing is a high-tech scam that uses spam or pop-up messages to deceive you into disclosing your credit card numbers, bank account information, Social Security number, passwords, or [...]

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