In September, our friends at Sophos wrote about a fake BBC website offering up the “chance” to work from home for predictably large sums of money. No more than a day later, we were covering fake BBC video posts targeting …

As you may know, cybercriminals are no longer limited to Twitter and Facebook as their launchpads for spams, scams, and malware-laden site link. Tumblr and Pinterest are just some of the new social networking sites that online criminals are now …

If we survive the Mayan Apocalypse of 2012, does that mean we’re technically immortals? I’ve no idea, but it will probably mean we don’t see quite as many of these Doomsday Apocalypse scams doing the rounds on Facebook since at …

Beautiful word, “shenanigans”. It seems we just can’t get enough of profile trackers / stalkers / watchers, and this was bouncing around over the weekend in the form of “Profile Viewers” posted to Facebook walls: Click to Enlarge Visiting the …

There’s not a day when we don’t see a new scam or hoax—yes, even the old ones—being proliferated on Facebook. I’ve seen both today. Let’s take a quick look at each one, shall we? First off, the scam: click to …

Most businesses look forward to Valentine’s Day as the next big-bucks occasion following the holiday period. People are still reeling from their holiday spends in January, but come mid-February they are ready to pull out the plastic again to spend …

I encountered this “new way for rapists to lure girls” story years ago from another social networking site. I’m quite sad yet generally not surprised that it has already made its way to Facebook. click to enlarge The message goes: …

The rather awesome Steam gaming platform has a festive competition running at the moment – perform certain tasks in a selection of games drawn each day (or sign up to a few non gaming activities like join a forum, or …

One of the biggest concerns for IT administrators is web security and protecting the network they are responsible for. Most IT administrators do a pretty good job of protecting their networks from “the usual suspects”; however, there is one aspect …

It’s no real surprise when we see how scammers ply their tricks online in order to dupe practically anyone. They leave no room for distinction with regard to who they target. And why would they? When it comes to online fraud, everyone …