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Facebook CEO wants to talk with Google on Friend Connect

2008-05-19 00:00:00 by Martyn Williams in Network World on Security
 
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to sit down with Google and work out the privacy issues that caused Facebook to block Google's Friend Connect last week, he said Monday
 
Tags: google, friend connect, block google, privacy issues, facebook, week, monday
 
 
 
 
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Facebook added friend confirmation Malicious Spam

2008-11-07 02:54:38 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
Websense Security Labs has discovered another round of malicious Facebook messages. This campaign is another visual social-engineering spam campaign which tries to visually trick users into believing that the message is a legitimate added friend confirmation. The From address in the message is spoofed to make it look as if it was sent from Facebook
 
Tags: facebook, friend confirmation, malicious facebook messages, spam campaign, websense security labs, campaign, message, trick users, visual
 
 
 
 
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Using Remote Assistance behind a router

2008-01-14 08:24:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
 
...friends and coworkers. The FAQs for Remote Assistance make it sound like if the routers on either end support Universal Plug and Play, you won't have any trouble. If anybody knows how to figure out if a router supports this, leave a comment on this blog entry. I suspect that if you are looking for help using Remote Assistance, your router,...
 
Tags: remote assistance, remote assistance session, assistance, assume remote assistance, remote assistance faq, router, remote desktop port, remote desktop, computer
 
 
 
 
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Careful - you just might be hiring a "brutal rapist".

2007-12-18 21:06:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...friend of a friend While we understand Mr. Hallinan's comment, he should have gone on to say that if you need to hire an executive protection agent, make sure you hire one with credentialed training and experience. If someone broke their leg, of course they shouldn't go to a "friend of a friend" to reset it, (unless that person is a...
 
Tags: ricky hatton, hatton, ricky, friend, time, hire, wbc welterweight bout, hallinan, leg
 
 
 
 
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Phishing Campaign Spreading Across Facebook

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2008-06-20 17:35:37 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...friends that the phishing links they leave as comments are legitimate. This latest internal phishing campaign circulating across Facebook , is a part of a bigger phishing operation, whose reliance on fast-fluxed domains used in the campaign indicates it's a part of a botnet Sample messages spammed across Facebook hey, howdy?? oh lisen i got...
 
Tags: facebook, campaign, phishers, info, myspace phishers, info facebookindex, myspace, profile, facebookindex
 
 
 
 
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She could totally be mine...

2007-12-18 00:00:00 by Uriel Maimon in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...friend R. in a bar. My friend was completely ignoring me (a rather stimulating treatise on how my failure with women is caused by millions of years of human evolution. I've entitled this thesis "Nature or nurture, culture or genes: Pick any one -- or all of the above"), and was focusing on a girl on the other side of the bar She could be your...
 
Tags: friend, human evolution, bar, mine, completely, thesis, daughter, girl, nurture
 
 
 
 
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What's the Snag Behind the Spyware

2007-08-01 19:28:00 by jack in adware and spyware
 
...friend and sidekick. He can talk, walk, joke, browse, search, e-mail and download like no other friend you've ever had! . . Best of all, it is FREE This piece of copyright text is so deceptive for unknowingly, motives behind depict to pursue some ends in order to evade something that will disrupt the mobility of cash flow of the mother host...
 
Tags: spyware, software, reputable piece software, anti-spyware program, helpful software agents, information data, information, system, computer system
 
 
 
 
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Late thoughts from CES - data leakage via gumdrops

2008-01-22 13:49:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...friend of mine just returned from the Consumer Electronics Show, where he saw NBC giving away 2GB flash drives at its booth in return for a badge swipe I remember when flash drives first came out: 8 or 16MB cost more than $100, and people gladly paid it. The price point has hockey-sticked downward, and with it, demand for more and more...
 
Tags: 2gb flash, 2gb flash drive, flash, gain access, access, files, bad guys, access control, guys
 
 
 
 
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This is not a bodyguard - this is a walking lawsuit.

2008-03-18 02:52:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...friend of a friend" who used to be in the army, or who used to be a night club bouncer. Those hires are always a mistake. The have LIABILITY written all over them. Whenever you hire someone to work for you, stop and think what might happen if they are not who or what they claim to be What happens if they use drugs and have an accident while...
 
Tags: hire, celebrities hire amateurs, security, security person, vehicle, company vehicle, people hire, professional security firms, night club bouncer
 
 
 
 
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