Information Protection and Security

 
From the beginning, the profitability and viability of popular Facebook social networking games Mafia Wars and Farmville were predicated on the backs of scams, boasts Zynga CEO Mark Pincus in this video. "I did every horrible thing in the book just to get revenues," he crows in the clip to a gathered bunch of fellow scumbag app developers.
 

Many people have heard about KOOBFACE malware propagating through social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter. What is not common knowledge is that KOOBFACE has been known to install rogue AV onto victims' PCs.
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Why do so many users suffer from identity theft? One company that has been studying the problem has identified five key sore spots that often lead to problems, no matter which users are involved.

Why do so many users suffer from identity theft? One company that has been studying the problem has identified five key sore spots that often lead to problems, no matter which users are involved.

Obama writes in his proclamation: "In the Information Age, the very technologies that empower us to create and build also empower those who would disrupt and destroy."

Do we really want Facebook to keep peering into updates meant just for friends and family? The research serves as a good reminder about cybersecurity -- after all, it is National Cybersecurity Month. If you put something on Facebook, no matter how tight your privacy settings are, Facebook Inc. can still hang onto it, analyze it, remix it and repackage it.

"The dramatic rise in attacks against social networking sites this year can primarily be attributed to attacks on popular new technologies like Twitter, where cross-site scripting and CSRF worms were unleashed," Ryan Barnett, director of application security research for Breach Security, said in a statement. "Looking back at 2008, a notable election year, government-related organizations were the top-ranked attack victims and have now dropped to number three.

The Foreign Office has defended spy boss Sir John Sawers after his wife posted private information about the family on Facebook. Sawers takes over as head of the Secret Intelligence Service in November. His wife's Facebook profile failed to use any privacy protection and included home addresses, family photographs and holiday snaps.
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'Anti-Malvertising' lets Website owners perform background checks on potential online advertisers.