By Adam Lapay, SOC Analyst A new article from Kaspersky Lab posted 1/13/12, David Jacoby states that a new, dangerous and extra crafty Phishing scam is propagating through Facebook. Phishing is a method of obtaining usernames, passwords, and credit card information, by tricking unsuspecting users into putting this information into an illegitimate, fake website, which [...]

The social media revolution has created a new market for URL shortening services, such as tinyurl.com and bit.ly.  These services take a URL such as http://www.thesecuritysamurai.com/2011/06/23/the-corporate-security-halftime-report-corporations-0-hackers-over-9000-by-rory-smith-soc-analyst/ and create a redirect site at tinyurl.com/<random string of characters> such as tinyurl.com/6b3bktp.  This is particularly useful when linking to articles or media with long URLs such as the [...]