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The Perfect Crime, the perfect alibi: My Facebook Status
The NY Times brings us the story of Rodney Bradford. He’s the 19 year old Brooklyn man whose lawyer, Robert Reuland, invoked one of the first known “Facebook alibis” in his defense of the 19 year old Bradford on what were a second set of robbery charges he was facing. Since the Facebook defense is [...]
Facebook’s Faith: A New Scareware Attack
On Thursday morning, AVG researcher Roger Thompson, after sourcing some spyware attacks to a series of Facebook profiles, noted that these few hundred profiles were showing up with the same profile image (seen at left) but different profile information. The home video link on these profiles, belonging to Faith / Emily / whoever, points to the a web site that displays scareware dialogs.
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