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Twitter went down for a short time Saturday morning for reasons unknown.  They simply called it “unexpected downtime.”  In a blog post the company announced that once again they had to take their API offline as part of the repair process.  This frustrated many developers and users of third party… Continue Reading »

The Koobface worm has now surfaced on Twitter with the latest variation attempting to create as much havoc as possible.  The newest code can allow criminals to access a person’s Twitter account and post their own tweets.  These tweets are used as a way to spread the worm and infect… Continue Reading »

A new malware attack exploiting the upcoming and highly anticipated new Harry Potter movie “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” is hitting the net.  Using black hat SEO and malicious posts in blog comments, the scammers try to trick fans into clicking on the link, which claims they can watch… Continue Reading »

As I talked about recently, we all know that Facebook, along with most social networking sites in general, is growing in popularity in a major way as of late.  And with an increase in users comes an increase in the interest of those wanting to target those users maliciously.  So… Continue Reading »

Facebook users need to be very careful these days.  The popular social networking site has been hit with a new wave of malware that pretends to be one of the thousands of third party apps available on the site.  One of the most dangerous is the newest version of the… Continue Reading »