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A scam campaign is using profiles from YouTube to advertise products and services. Spammers and malware writers exploiting site to infect users. Privacy woes continue to plague Facebook this week following the revelation that a spam campaign is hijacking user accounts and posting messages on the Wall feature of user profiles. A person wanting to impress a hacker group broke into the popular MySpace profiles of several celebrities, including Justin Timberlake and model and MTV personality Tila Tequila, researchers said today. Facebook users are being warned that the popular social networking site accidentally exposed personal information about its members this week. The FBI used the DarkMarket.ws cybercriminal forum to create profiles of identity thieves looking to share tips and purchase stolen data. Security experts are warning of socially engineered threats targeting users this holiday season. Fifty-six people have been arrested in connection with an undercover FBI operation that posed as an online forum for trading stolen credit card numbers. Security researchers claim to have uncovered a new wave of attacks in which profiles on Facebook are used to post images of child torture.. Social network providers should enhance the security controls that are available to their users, analysts say. The Web is a pretty nasty place, according to reverse engineer and privacy advocate Mike Perry -- and he should know. The questions of "who" and "why" in identity theft remain largely ignored. That is, "Who is after online identities? And what for?" The malicious botnet is now attempting to recruit new members by hiding its malware within a fake news story about the FBI and Facebook.
People just don’t think that putting family genealogy, exposes them and their families to spying by ID fraudsters and for that matter anyone else (stalkers, paedophiles, employers, parents). Spam significantly increased in the second quarter of 2008, security vendor Sophos reported today. Google and LinkedIn criticised for not protecting individuals' data. Companies are being warned of the dangers posed by third-party web transfer services, and the use of instant messaging and social networking sites to send personal information.. Aladdin’s eSafe has gained many new and updated elements since its last release. The feature set includes a full gambit of email and web safeguards, such as the validation of recipients with the integration of LDAP/Active Directory. A security and privacy breach that made personal Facebook photos available to unwelcome visitors could have had real consequences for businesses, experts said. Security researchers at Websense have uncovered what they called a "link hack" that bypasses the attempts of social networking website MySpace.com to control and filter the links on its pages.