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InternetNews April 5, 2010	Facebook Scam Takes Aim at Whole Foods Fans Scammers target Facebook fans of Whole Foods Market grocery store, promising a $500 gift card, but they're really out to swipe users' personal information.
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InternetNews September 25, 2009	Twitter URLs Again Under Siege by Hackers Hackers are taking advantage of the popular microblogging site's limitations to spread malware.
InternetNews February 2, 2010	Facebook Seen as Biggest Threat to IT Security New survey from Sophos highlights concerns about using social media sites inside the enterprise.
InternetNews May 7, 2010 Larry Barrett	Messenger Worm Preys On Users' Trust Hackers took advantage of a security gap in Yahoo Messenger and a bevy of Windows operating systems to spread malware through the instant messaging client.
InternetNews August 18, 2010	Facebook Kit Makes Hacking Logins Easy Security software vendor BitDefender says it's found a new malware kit that lets hackers easily access logins and passwords for Facebook and other unsecured credentials.
InternetNews May 19, 2010	'Lost' Finale Gives Cyber Crooks New Bait With the end of the popular ABC drama, hackers are exploiting viewers' interest to spread all sorts of malware.
InternetNews February 2, 2010	Spammers Pedaling Haiti, World Cup Scams Latest analysis finds spike in malware hidden in messages about major world news events.
InternetNews February 17, 2009 Sean Gallagher	Social Networks a Magnet for Malware Just like the crooks robbed the banks because that's where the money is, malware will go where the people are.
InternetNews February 3, 2011	Hackers Use Facebook Mania to Spread Malware Facebook is a magnet for security threats and hackers are capitalizing on users' addiction to the social networking site to do even more damage.
InternetNews May 24, 2010	Racy Malware Tags Facebook Accounts For the second time in as many weeks, Facebook users are being tricked into downloading adware disguised as a video of attractive young women in bikinis.
InternetNews October 29, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Facebook Worm Redux Taps Google Sites Once again, social networking site Facebook has been hit by the Koobface worm, which has been used to attack it several times since July.
InternetNews November 22, 2010	Spam Scam Targets Miley Cyrus Fans With Miley Cyrus' 18th birthday near, malware mavens are laying the traps for fans who might be willing to click on stray links to find videos.
InternetNews July 30, 2010	Taking the Measure of the Twitter 'Crime Rate' Researcher at Barracuda Networks has taken the measure of the "crime rate" on Twitter, which ranks somewhere in between e-mail and Facebook on the threat counter.
InternetNews December 5, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Latest Facebook Attack Stems from Previous One Businesses with Facebook links must watch out.
InternetNews June 11, 2010	Symantec Warns of Latest World Cup Malware Researchers at software-security firm detect a two-pronged malware attack targeting executives at major Brazilian firms, using the World Cup as a lure.
InternetNews May 15, 2009 Alex Goldman	Facebook Attacks Threaten All Web Sites Why would users want your user name and password? Perhaps because it could give them access to your money and your e-mail.
InternetNews December 29, 2009	Security 2010: What Threats May Come Dawn of a new decade promises a new wave of cybersecurity challenges.
InternetNews April 30, 2009 Michelle Megna	Facebook Fights Second Phishing Attack Facebook battles attackers seeking users' login information.
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InternetNews May 14, 2010	Facebook's Become a Phisher's Playground Facebook has plenty of security problems of its own making to resolve and, in the interim, professional cyber-thieves are exploiting other vulnerabilities.
InternetNews February 23, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Malware Authors Exploit Facebook App Is a bogus application making the rounds on Facebook just a failed marketing ploy? Or something more dangerous?
InternetNews February 11, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Spammers Hijack Facebook Group of 1.5 Million Facebook site is taken over by get-rich-quick and other familiar spam.
InternetNews October 1, 2009	Facebook Hit With New Spyware Scam Hackers bypassed the social networking site's captchas to create new accounts at will.
InternetNews November 23, 2009	Facebook Hit With New CSRF Worm Latest exploit replicates itself through bogus wall postings; security researchers wonder what else is out there.
InternetNews June 2, 2010	Blackhat SEO Scam Hits Mop.com Gaming Site One of the world's most popular online gaming sites is under siege from a creative malware scam that attempts to swindle players' personal information and gaming credits.
InternetNews September 8, 2010	Apple Spruces Up Ping Social Net New social network on iTunes attracts more than 1 million users and more than its fair share of spam.
InternetNews August 9, 2010	Cisco Unveils Top 10 Web Malware Threats Contaminated websites are still a threat, but Cisco's latest security report suggests that are plenty of other Web-borne malware scams that can cost you or your company dearly.
InternetNews August 21, 2009	Facebook Pages Publish to Twitter With New Tool Promotional marketing on the top social networking site just got easier with a new tool that automatically publishes Facebook Pages content to Twitter.
InternetNews June 16, 2009 Alex Goldman	Could Twitter Top Google? Twitter can deliver more traffic and better traffic than any search engine, at least according to backer and venture capitalist Fred Wilson.
InternetNews August 13, 2010	Malware Discovered on Another Red Cross Website The Red Cross of Serbia was targeted by hackers who injected malicious JavaScript files onto several of the organization's web pages.
InternetNews May 14, 2010	Facebook Adds Login Security Features Facebook rolls out a login notification service alerting users to activity on their accounts and begins asking verification questions when users log in from unfamiliar devices.
InternetNews May 21, 2009 Alex Goldman	Phishers Strike Facebook in Latest Assault Facebook is fighting back against the most recent attack.
InternetNews March 3, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Digg Hackers Strike Next at YouTube Attacks are on the rise, with malware authors dabbling in spreading worms and scareware via comments.
InternetNews March 17, 2010	Facebook Trumps Google Facebook passed a significant milestone last week, topping Google for the first time as the most popular destination on the Web.
InternetNews January 18, 2011	Attack Toolkits Spark New Malware Strains Do-it-yourself malware kits are all the rage online and they're making life much easier for cyber-criminals looking to turn a quick buck.
InternetNews April 2, 2010	Report Tracks the Latest Trends in Cybercrime Sophisticated campaign tracking and dramatically increased use of social networking technologies were two of the top trends in cybercrime in 2009.
InternetNews December 31, 2010	Smartphone, Social Threats to Mark 2011 Security As enterprises increasingly embrace popular consumer technology, experts warn of coming threats to social networks and popular devices like the iPhone.
InternetNews January 4, 2008 Kenneth Corbin	Facebook's 'Secret Crush' is a Malware App Now operating under a new name, the first documented adware widget continues to ricochet across Facebook.
InternetNews January 20, 2011	New Worm Takes Twitter Users For a Ride Twitter fans have a new malware campaign to worry about this week after security researchers at Kaspersky Lab identified a new scareware come-on.
InternetNews August 11, 2010	Is Google Ready to Compete With Facebook? Why would Google invade Facebook's well-established social networking turf?
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InternetNews March 4, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Experts Warn Koobface Eying More Social Sites Malicious hackers are continuing their attacks on social networking sites, with a new variant of the Koobface worm now spreading its assault on a new crop of the popular sites.
InternetNews June 1, 2010	Click-Out Boycott of Facebook Fizzles The first and probably last 'Quit Facebook Day' came and went over the holiday weekend and the response from the social networking site's members was far from overwhelming.
InternetNews September 16, 2009 Larry Barrett	Hackers Targeting Web 2.0 Sites at Alarming Rate Security software vendor Websense claims 95 percent of user-generated comments on blogs and message boards are either spam or contain malicious code.
InternetNews June 22, 2009 Alex Goldman	Bloggers Say Facebook Slow to Fix Security Holes An apparent flaw in Facebook's security has bloggers up in arms, again, about whether user's personal information is safe on social networking sites.
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InternetNews July 27, 2010	Microsoft: IE8 Thwarted 1B Malware Downloads With Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft set out to build a more secure Web browser, and 16 months into its launch, the company is touting a major security milestone.