Mashable – Just how much cybercrime happens on Facebook? About 4 million Facebook users experience spam on a daily basis, 20% of Facebook users have been exposed to malware, and Facebook sees about 600,000 cases of hijacked log-ins every day. As it stands, there are settings you can change to protect yourself against cybercrime. However,…
Read MoreReuters – China has detained four people and punished eight for a series of data breaches last month that severely undermined trust in the country’s internet security, the official People’s Daily reported on Wednesday.
Read MoreThe Atlantic Wire – Related: Not All That Surprising: Malware Victims More Likely to Get Mugged
Read MoreReuters – Two weeks after disclosing that its website had been hacked, a private intelligence analysis firm on Friday warned subscribers that hackers were now circulating false emails offering the company’s services for free.
Read MoreReuters – Symantec Corp, the top maker of security software, said hackers had exposed a chunk of its source code, which is essentially the blueprint for its products, potentially giving rivals some insight into the company’s technology.
Read MoreMashable – [brightcove video="1365526134001" /] New malware hitting bank accounts will spend victims’ money, but won’t be obvious by looking at an online statement. Computer security firm Trusteer reported a new malware virus attacked some customers’ online bank accounts during the holiday season.
Read MoreMashable – There are more than 130 Facebook app developers with access to my profile. Sixty-eight apps have permission to post to my Twitter feed, eight of them can access my LinkedIn data and another eight are connected to my Gmail account. You don’t have to be an online privacy expert to understand that’s probably…
Read MoreDigital Trends – Earlier this week, Google came under fire for a pay-per-post campaign promoting its Chrome browser. In addition to being hypocritical (Google has made a lot of noise about punishing this type of spammy, page boosting, “thinâ€� content), one sponsored blog post in particular failed to follow Google’s “nofollowâ€� hyperlinking rule.
Read MoreReuters – A Saudi-based computer hacker published details of thousands of active Israeli credit cards for the second time this week, the chief executive of Israel’s largest card company said Thursday.
Read MoreDigital Trends – The threat of Internet censorship has spurred some to seek refuge in space. Hackers at the Chaos Computer Club’s Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin this year proposed an initiative called the Hackerspace Global Grid (HGG), which aims to create and freely make available satellite based communication as a fallback or to bypass…
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