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Posted by Larry Dignan @ 8:16 am Security–actually insecurity–is a very social thing. Get a cute malware infested email and forward it along to your contact list. See a site that’s interesting–but is really just a phishing expedition–and you get hit with a virus/worm/rootkit. Social engineering makes the security world go around. So what do you do if you’re Facebook or MySpace? You tell folks to be less social. Good luck with that folks. Earlier this week, security firm Sophos warned Facebook users to be careful given there was a malicious video being spread around. Sophos wrote: Messages left on Facebook users’ walls are urging members to view a video (which pretends to be hosted on a Google website), but clicking on the link and visiting the webpage takes users to a site which urges them to download an executable to watch... [read full story]
