The last weekend, many Facebook users got a notification stating that some of their friends “has faced some errors when checking your profile”. It also provided a link for the user to click and “View the Errors Message” which would lead to a lot of personal information being shared by unsuspecting users. More details can be found in Trend Micro’s anti-malware blog.

Last afternoon, a similar threat surfaced on Facebook…

Recently an update from the iDefense Labs came out with a vulnerability found in the Adobe Flash Player plugin (version 10.0.12.36 and earlier), which is installed on browsers to view dynamic content on websites.

A hacker with criminal intentions can exploit this vulnerability by getting the target user to download a malicious Shockwave file. Once this is done, the attacker can…