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Facebook Scam: Free Amazon.com gift card promotion

Author: Omid Farhang Published: January 24, 2012 Reading Time: 2 min

SophosLabs: Gift card scams are a common sight on Facebook, and this weekend it has been the turn of Amazon.com to be the brand used by cybercriminals as a way of making them cash. One Free Amazon.com Gift Card (limited time only) [LINK] Amazon is currently giving away gift cards to all facebook users. Click here to get one! When you see one of your friends share a link like this with you, the truth is that they have been duped into a scam. Be careful not to make the same mistake as them, or you’ll just be helping put cash into the pockets of the bad guys. ...

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More Facebook scam links/videos you want to avoid

Author: Omid Farhang Published: January 24, 2012 Reading Time: 1 min

Recently I’m seeing more facebook scams which claim to be very hot videos, but they are nothing but scam, here is 2 samples: When you see any of them, hover your mouse over the post, and click on the x button in top right which says “Report/Mark Spam”.

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Facebook Scam: See who views your profile!

Author: Omid Farhang Published: January 24, 2012 Reading Time: 1 min

Earlier today we have seen a new Facebook clickjacking scam which spreads quite fast. I KNOW WHEN YOU LOOK AT MY PROFILE USING THIS: http://bit.ly/ NEW! See who views your profile! www..com Do you want to know who is looking at your photos right now? Find out who looks at your profile the most and what they look at! or other variant even more provocative: CLICK HERE TO SEE WHO IS STALKING YOU: http://bit.ly NEW! See who views your profile! www..com Do you want to know who is looking at your photos right now? Find out who looks at your profile the most and what they look at! ...

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You dislike it too: Sore Throat [Part 2]

Author: Omid Farhang Published: January 18, 2012 Reading Time: 3 min

Part 1: /2012/01/you-dislike-it-too-sore-throat Part2: As I told you in my other post, I’m dealing with a Sore Throat which is very annoying, I tried some simple stuff like gargle warm water and salt, drinking warm drinks, honey and lemon, lots of Vitamin C, Zinc and and and…. they did not work, my Sore Throat went one step ahead and reached a major infection level. I went to meet my doctor, after a check-up he wrote a long prescription for me: ...

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LA Time: Dropbox inventor determined to build the next Apple or Google

Author: Omid Farhang Published: January 17, 2012 Reading Time: 1 min

Drew Houston’s wildly popular service allows people to access the latest version of all their digital stuff on any device no matter where they are. Every day 325 million files are saved on Dropbox. Drew Houston, 28, chief executive and co-founder of Dropbox, last fall pocketed $250 million from seven of Silicon Valley’s top venture capital firms. That eye-popping sum pegged the value of his company at $4 billion and his own net worth — at least on paper — at an estimated $600 million. (Matt Staver, Bloomberg / July 6, 2011) ...

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Hotmail phishing: Don't send us the wrong password or we'll suspend your account!

Author: Omid Farhang Published: January 14, 2012 Reading Time: 2 min

SophosLabs: Have you been told to verify your Hotmail account? Did you receive a message saying that Hotmail’s email servers were congested, and so they were removing all unused accounts? If so, I hope you responded to the email with a roll of the eyes and a quick stab of the delete button. Because if you didn’t, you might have been at risk of having your login credentials stolen. ...

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You dislike it too: Sore Throat

Author: Omid Farhang Published: January 12, 2012 Reading Time: 2 min

I bet you dislike it when your throat hurts, when you have that damned feeling in your skin, when your nose become a useless meat on your face, when you become slightly weak and when your eyes get tired soon, after-all when you realize you have got cold or flu… Yeah, above text is all about me and how I am now, finally those little virus(es) could welcome themselves to my body and have a party, those little unwanted guests! ...

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Pink Facebook? Red or black Facebook?

Author: Omid Farhang Published: January 11, 2012 Reading Time: 1 min

Pink Facebook? Red or black Facebook? No, it’s a scam you want to avoid. Share the knowledge with your friends! Credit to Norman Security for sharing 🙂

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Chrome 17 enters beta, improves speed and security

Author: Omid Farhang Published: January 8, 2012 Reading Time: 2 min

H-Security: Version 17 of Chrome has been released into the WebKit-based browser’s Beta channel. Its developers say that the new Chrome beta, version 17.0.963.26, is focused on improving two of the browser’s core principles: speed and security. To make Chrome “go even faster”, some web pages will start loading in the background before a user has even finished typing a URL into the Omnibox address and search bar. To reduce the time between a user pressing enter and the page being fully loaded, Chrome will pre-render some pages if the URL auto-completes to a site a user is likely to visit. According to Google Software Engineer Dominic Hamon, this will, in some cases, cause pages to appear “instantly”. ...

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The fundamental cause of trouble in the world

Author: Omid Farhang Published: January 5, 2012 Reading Time: 1 min

The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. — Bertrand Russell

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