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Walking the Fine Line between Network Monitoring and Freedom
We have embraced social networking sites so much that they have become a part of our everyday life. For most of us, checking our Twitter account, reading emails and following our friends’ updates on Facebook have become a daily routine. …
Super Mario Scam: The Princess Is In Another Castle
Here we have a website claiming you can “Play Super Mario Online”, complete with looped Youtube video and a large “Start Here” button at the bottom of the page. playmario4free(dot)com/networks/vc/index(dot)html As you’re about to see, The Princess is most definitely …
Hakuna Me Gusta
+1 if you immediately understood the title before reading the article. +2 if you still have no idea by the end of it. There’s a Spanish language Facebook fakeout knocking around this week, a variation on a tried and tested …
Every day is a Birthday Party at Myspac(dot)com
You’d have thought Myspace would have snapped up myspac(dot)com, but it seems to have scampered past them in the night like a small scampery thing that scampers. The Myspac(dot)com URL will bounce you through a whole bunch of different locations …
To Know or Not to Know: That is the Facebook Question
No matter how fun and interesting (not to mention newsworthy) Facebook is, the said social networking site has indeed become a haven to a motley of threats, from scams, to nasty apps, to phishing pages. Users who spent much of their …
Osama is still alive, except he isn’t
Click to Enlarge Facebook is a strange place to be for Bin Laden. It seems you’re fated to be alive and dead at the same time, thriving like a kind of Schrodinger’s terrorist in an effort to generate affiliate cash for people …
You Fumbld Your Tumbl
Ah, Tumblr. It calls itself a microblogging site but it’s not exactly like Twitter, nor is it a Facebook or a YouTube. It does a little bit of all three, actually, and for many Tumblr is in a league of …
Some more "Bin Laden Kill Footage" scams on Facebook
It goes without saying that the death of Osama Bin Laden has already generated a whole bunch of scams, malware and other junk. Here’s another one. Taking a cue from the “Osama shot down” video doing the rounds on Facebook …
Free Southwest Airlines tickets on Facebook: steer clear
Whoosh! That’s my impression of an aeroplane. Not very good, but then neither is this: Click to Enlarge Yes, the “two free tickets with Southwest airlines” scam from February is alive and well, bringing a “wall of shame” along for …
Here comes the bride… Keep those eyes open wide
When Kate Middleton walks down the aisle tomorrow at Westminster Abbey to marry Prince William, two billion people worldwide are expected to tune in to witness probably the most important Royal Wedding since that of Prince Charles and Diana many …










