Need further evidence that you should keep your guard up while tweeting away in 140 characters or less? Twitter is “growing as a playground” for malicious Internet attacks, with a crime rate that jumped 20 percent last year alone, according to a new report from Barracuda Networks Inc.
Need further proof that social media sites are now home base for serious malware attacks? Read this: two new malware strains have been launched, targeting Facebook, AIM and Yahoo! users, according to IT security firm PandaLabs.
It’s not the mobile device that’s endangering your Facebook, it’s your Facebook that’s endangering your mobile device. That’s the headline of a new study from security firm BitDefender that identified social media as the biggest threat for introducing malware on mobile devices.
The results should be a wake-up call to all social network users so we went straight to the source to get more answers, speaking with Catalin Cosoi, head of the BitDefender Online Threats Lab. He tells us what users should know about the study and what they can do to protect themselves.
A new worm full of malware hit Twitter late last night, and it has people on alert today. This new malware attack uses Goo.gl links to spread, and it is hitting mobile Twitter users
Is LinkedIn the latest social network victim to be attacked with a DDoS attack?
LinkedIn was unavailable 5+ hours Saturday, only two days after a rash of social network attacks disrupted services globally. I can’t remember LinkedIn being down for anywhere near 5 hours before. Twitter, Facebook and Google all reported Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks (DDoS) last week. Have the hackers moved on to LinkedIn as their next target? Is this political, the continuation of anti-social media trend started by Twitter and Facebook’s shutdown in China?
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