Tag: CLICKJACKING

No, despite what you may have heard on Facebook and Twitter, Charlie Sheen is not yet dead. With the eye-catching title of "RIP! Charlie Sheen found Dead at his House," a massive clickjacking hoax is doing the rounds on Facebook and Twitter. Clicking the link will take you to a fake YouTube page -- and if you click anywhere on the page, the hoax will infect your Facebook profile and begin ...

If you click on an interesting Facebook link and find yourself redirected to a page with nothing but "click here to continue," close that window. You've been suckered by a popular Facebook worm that's spread to a reported 100,000+ users, generating fake "likes" on people's profiles. The fake likes link to those same "click here to continue" pages, perpetuating the cycle. One security firm is ...

After the whole clickjacking nightmare on Twitter, some of you might be looking for a better way to shorten (truncate) URLs. One good solution is provided by Shuurl. You can Shuurl at work in the screenshot above. Not only are users provided with a thumbailed image of the destination page, they're also tagged with Web of Trust-style safety icons. The coding is the same as atraffic signal: green ...