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Scam alert: Facebook acting strange? Check for strange apps enabled on your account.

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There are many ways for hackers and scammers to use your Facebook account to do malicious things, and make it appear that YOU are the culprit.

Most hackers simply find a way to break into your account and use it to publish SPAM posts and malicious links or spread malware to your friends via chat or instant messages.

Luckily, those hackers and scammers can be easily kicked off and locked out of your account by changing your password and enabling Two-Factor Authentication, but the truly devious miscreants can cause you all kinds of grief long after you’ve booted them off and locked them out of your account.

Yes, the really serious hackers can actually keep using your account to send SPAM and spread malware even without being able to log back in to your account!

And how they do that just might surprise you…  [Read more…]

Scam alert: Beware fake update notices for your Chrome browser!

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If you’ve been using the Internet for any length of time you probably know how important it is to keep your web browser(s) updated with the latest security updates.

Security holes that can allow hackers and scammers to cause all kinds of grief for innocent users are “patched” via security updates on a regular basis, so we’re all used to installing those updates as they are released.

Unfortunately, hackers are now taking advantage of our familiarity with security updates to trick us into downloading dangerous malware onto our systems.

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Scam alert: No, Facebook is not going to start charging users a fee.

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Every now and then the old “Facebook is gonna start charging a fee” hoax pops up and starts making the rounds again, and right now is one of those times.

Luckily, this is one of those hoaxes that’s more annoying than dangerous, but it is REALLY annoying!

The text of the hoax messages vary, but they typically look something like this: [Read more…]

Scam alert: One of these 25 popular Android apps could be stealing your Facebook login info!

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I often write about malicious mobile apps that were designed to cause all kinds of problems on Facebook, but I usually write about just one or two of them at a time.

But now a group of 25 very popular Android apps that were all written by the same company have been removed from the Google Play Store for stealing the Facebook login credentials of millions of unsuspecting users.

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Scam alert: Beware hackers stealing Facebook passwords via malicious video links in instant messages

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If you use Facebook you’re probably used to receiving cute and funny videos in instant messages. Truth be told, we all get them on a regular basis.

Dozens of videos land in my IM inbox every day, but I never click on any of them. And I strongly recommend that you avoid clicking on them as well.

Many of these seemingly harmless videos are actually quite dangerous because they have viruses attached to them. If you watch the video your computer with catch a virus. It can ruin your whole day.  [Read more…]

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