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...quick message from a friend on Facebook, click on the link and absentmindedly log in to a website pretending to be Facebook. This is what happened last week, when scammers unleashed a new attack on Facebook, collecting users' log-in information and passwords and pilfering victims' "friends" lists to target the next dopes. Listen up, people: Although Facebook has a reputation for Internet security - it identified the scam within hours, and the ripple effects only lasted for a couple days - at 200 million members and counting, the size and popularity of the social-networking site has made it the object...
...scammers used e-mail," says Michael Argast, a security analyst at Sophos, an antivirus software company. "Today, it's social networking." Argast explains that although people have been trained not to click on suspicious e-mails, they don't operate with the same sense of caution when presented with a link on Facebook or Twitter. Maybe that's why the number of phishing attacks on these kinds of sites - in which people are fishing for account information, as opposed to infecting your computer with a virus - has skyrocketed recently, from 4,600 attacks...
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...penalty for all flights departing the U.S. through May 15. Delta will let you trade in your tickets to Mexico for another destination altogether without a change fee for flights leaving through May 16. American Airlines is offering refunds for all tickets to Mexico for flights through May 31. Click here to get the details of most major airline policies...
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