July 14, 2010
Facebook has a membership of over 350 million members worldwide which today makes it a prime target for spammers. In January of 2010, Facebook was the second most phished organization online. In 2009 networking company Cisco predicted that the volume of worldwide spam would increase by “30 to 40″ percent in 2010.
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June 29, 2010
The FBI is investigating a security glitch that allowed Goatse Security to obtain at least 114,000 private email addresses of Apple iPad users. According to FBI spokesman Jack Pack, “The FBI is aware of these possible computer intrusions and has opened an investigation to address the potential cyber threat”.
The intrusions occurred when a group calling themselves Goatse Security was able to obtain the email addresses of people like New York Times CEO Janet Robinson, Diane Sawyer of ABC, big time Hollywood producer and director Harvey Weinstein, White House chief of staff Rahm Emamuel and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, by exploiting an AT&T security hole.
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