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...swine flu were really serious about being viral, it would find a way to transmit through Facebook, Twitter or Myspace. But being that it's not a sentient being and has actually done some serious harm (death, panic, a drop in bacon sales), maybe a more appropriate way to joke about the topic is via an online game that has spread across the Internet with pandemic-like speed over the past few days...
...delivering digital TV, video on demand, e-health and education initiatives, and a host of as yet undreamed of applications. "It will open the floodgates for entrepreneurs," says telecommunications analyst Paul Budde. "I think I'm pretty good at what I'm doing, but I never would have predicted Facebook, Skype or YouTube. The same will apply here...
...Like anything on the Internet, Facebook has never been completely scam-free, but its privacy settings may create a false sense of security: most users can't interact with one another unless they are "friends" or belong to the same general network. The site at first glance would also seem less of a gold mine for swindlers since unlike financial websites, which offer access to victims' bank accounts, there is no direct financial gain from hacking into a Facebook account. But the bad guys know that many of us are lazy or forgetful and use the same password on multiple...
...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...
...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 in 2007 to 11,000 in 2008. This year doesn...