Facebook Malware Scam Of The Week

Stu Sjouwerman | Feb 7, 2012

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Facebook Malware Scam of the Week



A "worrying number" of Facebook users are sharing a link to a

malware-laden fake CNN news page reporting the U.S. has attacked Iran

and Saudi Arabia, security firm Sophos said Friday. This is a great

example of employees falling for a social engineering trick. You

could send them an email to warn them against this scam, and prevent

workstations in the office and at the house from getting infected.

More:



http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7843830/987374514/550432/0/





Next Version of our Security Awareness Training





We are working hard on releasing the next version of our Security

Awareness Training. The existing version focuses a lot on detecting

phishing emails and not clicking on malicious link, and while the

new version still does that, we are expanding it to more training

on other forms of Social Engineering. To get you world-class quality,

we are working with an authority in the area. We hope to release the new version in the

March/April timeframe.

Topics: Cybercrime

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