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Walking the Fine Line between Network Monitoring and Freedom

Walking the Fine Line between Network Monitoring and Freedom

on August 12, 2011

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. …

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Super Mario Scam: The Princess Is In Another Castle

Super Mario Scam: The Princess Is In Another Castle

on July 14, 2011

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 …

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Hakuna Me Gusta

Hakuna Me Gusta

on July 4, 2011

+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 …

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Every day is a Birthday Party at Myspac(dot)com

Every day is a Birthday Party at Myspac(dot)com

on May 24, 2011

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 …

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To Know or Not to Know: That is the Facebook Question

To Know or Not to Know: That is the Facebook Question

on May 19, 2011

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 …

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Osama is still alive, except he isn’t

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 …

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You Fumbld Your Tumbl

You Fumbld Your Tumbl

on May 16, 2011

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 …

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Some more "Bin Laden Kill Footage" scams on Facebook

Some more "Bin Laden Kill Footage" scams on Facebook

on May 4, 2011

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 …

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Free Southwest Airlines tickets on Facebook: steer clear

Free Southwest Airlines tickets on Facebook: steer clear

on May 3, 2011

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 …

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Here comes the bride… Keep those eyes open wide

Here comes the bride… Keep those eyes open wide

on April 28, 2011

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 …

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