dan tynan on Nov 02 2009 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Facebook, Infoworld, Web 2.0
I’ve written a bit lately about how cyber thieves using social media to scam people. It turns out the most egregious scammers are many so-called “legitimate” companies that run deceptive ads on these networks.
TechCrunch has a fascinating series on how advertisers are using social games to trick Facebook and MySpace users into forking [...]
dan tynan on Oct 02 2009 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Cringley, Facebook, Infoworld, Twit or Tweet
More headlines today about the seething dark underbelly of the Web creeping up to slime you and your friends.
According to security company AVG, somebody pwned Facebook’s CAPTCHA anti-bot mechanism yesterday, either by cracking the code or (more likely) hiring a team of human drones for a few pennies apiece to decode the squiggly letters. They [...]
dan tynan on Feb 25 2009 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Facebook, Web 2.0
Social media is on the rise, and so are the privacy and security risks. Is it time to dial back on the whole Web 2.0 ‘friend’ thing?
