Security researchers warn that a new drive-by download attack is capable of infecting Windows, Mac OS X and Linux systems with a new variant of the notorious Koobface worm. The attack was spotted on social networking websites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, the usual hunting grounds of the Koobface gang. It begins with users receiving…

So, you have meticulously gone through all of your Facebook account and privacy settings and locked everything down. You have set everything to “Friends Only” or “Only Me.” You think that you are pretty well protected from people you don’t want finding you right?…Wrong! It appears that profiles that have been set to private are…

Anonymizer announced the results of a recent consumer survey, and some of the findings were surprising. 75% of respondents believed a firewall and another 62% believed anti-virus software both offered online identity theft protection. Firewalls are used to protect a computer against rogue and malicious intrusions. Anti-virus software scans files, hard drives etc in an…

Your cell phone has 18x more bacteria than a public toilet handle! Ok, I’ll admit the title of this article could be a little misleading, but anytime you access a social site, make a telephone call or do any activity that requires you to utilize your touch screen, you could be exposing yourself to a…

Tragically, these two seem to go hand in hand these days. Cyber bullying recently claimed its fourth victim in as many weeks. The latest casualty – Tyler Clementi, a Rutgers University student that jumped to his death off of the George Washington Bridge. This was in response to his his roommate secretly taping and streaming…

The much anticipated launch of Facebook’s geo-location rival to Foursquare finally came to fruition this week. So, what exactly is Facebook Places and how does it work? Facebook places brings location-based features to social networking using gps enabled computers and devices. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, summed it up pretty well in the press conference…

You’d think that with Facebook’s new granular / master switch type privacy and security settings you could finally let your guard down and enjoy Facebook free from worries about scammers, identity thieves and cyber criminals… WRONG.. Keep in mind that the more information made available by default to the public, the higher your risk of…

Facebook games are hugely popular in the workplace and your employees may be creating a route for cyber criminals and hackers to send in malware to your website. This is just part of the findings from a half yearly report submitted by CISCO that sought to re-establish its fears that social media, virtualiasation and cloud…