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• 8 Tips for Safer Online Shopping Holiday shoppers are flocking to the Web this year in unprecedented numbers. Here's what you need to know to avoid this season's crop of security threats.
• Five Tips for Safe Holiday Shopping Keep your credit card or debit card info out of the hands of scammers with these counter-fraud tips.
• Top 5 Social Engineering Exploit Techniques Learn to pwn humans for fun and profit -- or simply learn these techniques so you can avoid being scammed.
• Are You Being Scammed by Facebook Ads? Cyberthieves are using social media to scam people, but it turns out the most egregious scammers are many "legitimate" companies.
• 4 Swine Flu Scams Making the Rounds Spammers and malware authors are hoping to take advantage of fears and curiosity about the virus.
• The Net's Most Heinous Hoaxes We look at some of the meanest (and a few of the funniest) hoaxes on the Web.
• Hackers Paid to Hijack Macs A network of Russian malware authors and spammers paid hackers 43 cents for every Mac they infected with a bot.
• Fraudulent Twitter IDs Spread Spam Scammers are auto-generating Twitter accounts to lure users to links that spread scareware.
• Internet Scammers Leap on Patrick Swayze's Death Malware ghouls took just a few hours to begin preying on the death of actor Patrick Swayze with a new version of a familiar phony anti-virus scam.
• Low-tech Internet Scams Net Big Money Domino's Pizza lost about $77,000 in free pizza due to a weak password on an online promotion that wasn't supposed to go live -- a type of security problem that...
• Find Out if That E-Mail is Really a Hoax Can your cell phone really blow up a gas station? Debunk this and other urban legends at Snopes.com.
• Beware Jackson Scammers and Other Scum Analysis: Any intriguing news event is fodder for miscreants who try to lure eager readers to bogus sites distributing malicious code.
• Online Scams Jump as More Africans Go Online Cybercrooks are targeting new Internet users within Africa, along with the longstanding Nigerian money scams.
• Phishers Target Facebook Again Scam tries to steal passwords by getting Facebook users to enter their log-in credentials at a fraudulent site.
• Beware Swine Flu Spam Spammers seize on the timely topic to peddle meds, push money-making schemes, and even plant viruses of their own.
• Spammers Trying To Cash In on Swine Flu Frenzy Spammers are again taking advantage of a hot news topic to push their products and malware.
• Microsoft: Rogue 'Security' Software a Rising Threat In its latest security report, Microsoft also says hackers look for flaws in applications to infect computers
• Top 10 April Fool's Day Fake News Items Happy April Fool's Day on the Web. Here is a roundup of the best fake headlines.
• April Fools! Opera's Face Browsing, Google's Social Network AI Creature At first I thought Opera's news release about its revolutionary face gesture-controlled browser was real, but the diagrams of the tongue sticking out were a sure giveaway. Google and other sites are also getting into the spirit of the day. It's nice to know the tech biz can still smile.
• Google Unearths Stolen Credit Cards Cards stolen from U.K. are revealed when thieves post them for sale.
• Web Scam Nets Criminals $10,800 a Day No crunch here, finds Finjan.
• Online Fraud Hits Airlines Hard A report finds airlines worldwide lost more than $1.4 billion to fraudsters in 2008.
• Scam Alert: Don't Fall for Bogus 'Stimulus' Checks FTC, BBB officials say that sites promising a piece of the stimulus action are misleading at best, and may charge big bucks to provide information you could get for free.
• Phishers Target Facebook Facebook warns its users about another hoax application that will steal their personal data.
• 5 Facebook Schemes That Threaten Your Privacy Facebook and other social networks can be easy targets. Here's how to protect yourself and your Facebook friends.