Security online is one of the major issues and concerns for all the people hooked to it. We have seen how compromising can it be for anyone; from individuals to organizations. We have seen the Sony PlayStation network being hacked by some notorious folks out there and very recently the Nokia Developers Forum a couple of days back. It can be denting to the reputation that takes decades to build and trust that’s very hard earned. Now I don’t need to reiterate the entire philosophy behind trust building. Read More »
Tag Archive: Spam
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I for one need to do spend a lot of time on Google searching for various research reports, images, etc. And like most users, it isn’t surprising I too come across numerous malicious links. These include fake videos, images, spam sites and what not. The problem is antivirus and detection services don’t provide an ultimate solution, however we are looking forward to better secure ourselves. Zscaler, a leader in cloud security answered our question on how to protect ourselves against SEO spam with a Firefox add-on and is called Search Engine Security.
The plugin would protect users from most of the malware out there including fake AV and fake video pages. You can download Search Engine Security here.
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Facebook was finally accessible yesterday after the lifting of the ban on the social networking site in Pakistan on May 31. And guess what, nothing changes with news associated to the network, privacy issues, people talking about quitting Facebook and the ever popular malware. The latest is the Clickjacking worm and a lot of people have fallen prey to it, as always.
The good news is that there has been no theft of user data reported so far. It is simply posts links on user profiles with senseless messages to get them clicking or liking the posts which then spread virally. If you do click on the link it takes to you to a blank page which asks you to click here to continue. The page however is clickable anywhere and once you do click on the page it simply posts the link to your profile as a status update. I guess hat that is pretty simple to understand, given that implementing the like functionality on third party sites has been made really simple by Facebook.
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