Social networks are fun, but can also spread misinformation and worse. We discuss myths about your contract with Facebook, and whether British politicians are interested only in their own salaries.
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Technology might evolve, but cyber gangs rely on tried-and-tested tactics. With a bit of care and attention, it’s easy to sort the genuine bargains from the too-good-to-be-true fakes.
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The latest salacious video – promising ‘Naked Woman Eaten by a Shark’ – is just one in a long chain of viral video scams spread via Faceboook.
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Dennis Fisher and DigiCert’s Jeremy Rowley discuss the company’s certificate issuance for Facebook’s .onion site, the challenge of key protection in today’s environment and what the near future holds for PKI.
DigiCert explains why it issued a signed certificate to Facebook’s .Onion Tor domain, noting it may offer more hidden services certs in the future.
Facebook events have become one of the easiest and quickest ways of scamming people on social networks.
In the last few days many such events have been organized by malicious users. There are several aims that range from subscribing people to premium-rate SMS services to creating pages with thousands of followers for advertising purposes.
But how do these events work? The scam is similar to the one we reported a few months ago that claimed to offer a €500 gift voucher for Zara. They use the names of popular brands such as Zara, H&M, Apple or Primark to interest as many people as possible.
It works as follows:
The best thing to do with these types of events is to keep your guard up, and before taking part, check that it is really organized by the company in question.
In any case, you should never enter personal data on pages that you do not trust completely. That way you can prevent your data from falling into the wrong hands.
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Facebook has entered the hidden services with a new .onion site that will let Tor Network users sign into the world’s (second) most populace social network.
Facebook announced that it has released a host monitoring tool it developed to open source, and that it will increase its Internet Defense Prize payouts to $300,000 in 2015.
A new SMTP header developed by Facebook and Yahoo confirms ownership of Yahoo email accounts.
No doubt you’ve heard about two-step verification used on various social networks.
Having this option enabled lets you increase security on your account and helps prevent unauthorized and potentially malicious access.
In the case of Facebook, the process is simple, and all you need is your cell phone handy to confirm access from a new device. In Facebook, a new device is one that you haven’t used previously to connect to the platform.
This way, what you have to do is approve logins to prevent others from accessing your account.
Here we explain step-by-step how to enable login approvals.
In your Facebook account, go to Settings.
Go into Account Settings and select Security. There you will see “Login Approvals”.
From there click “Require a security code to access my account from unknown browsers”.
When you enter the code that they send to your phone, you will have to enter your Facebook account password.
Now you have enabled login approvals.
Facebook also gives you the option to print security codes in case at some time you don’t have your phone handy. It’s easy, right?
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