Hackers Iran lied to the International Internet Users

A recent study found that Trend Micro Internet users in 40 different networks of Internet providers and the University of Iranians turned out to contain fake SSL certificate issued by DigiNotar.

Providers and suppliers sites SSL certificate authority certificate in the Netherlands, was used to spy on Internet users in Iran on a large scale.

In theory, false certificates could be used to trick users into visiting a fake version of a Web site, or used to control communication with the actual site without the user noticing.

But the trick of a false certificate, a hacker must be able to direct Internet traffic routed through a server he controls. That's something only the Internet service provider, or government with a single command, and can do so easily.

Iranian state itself does not have a CA (Certificate Authority) itself. If they do, they can only issue a certificate naughty deceived. However, because they do not have to necessarily require an official certificate from a trusted CA as DigiNotar.

Trend Micro to see this rarity that makes the site an SSL certificate provider, DigiNotar under the mercy of hackers in Iran. So was launched through its official statement on Saturday (17/09/2011).

At this time about hundreds of thousands of unique IP addresses access to google.com Iran calls using fake certificates issued by DigiNotar. Trend Micro detects thousands of unique IP addresses requested google.com has been identified. On 4 August the number of requests to increase rapidly until a certificate is revoked on August 29.

The evidence was based on data collected from time to time, thanks to the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network is showing fake SSL certificate issued by DigiNotar, used to spy on Internet users in Iran on a large scale.

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Sims Threaten Zynga On Facebook

Zynga from now seems to be extra careful because the Facebook social gaming world has been their strong competitors emerged, namely Social Sims.


As quoted from Mashable, Wednesday (31/08/2011), The Sims Social, which is a franchise from Electronic Arts, has exited its beta version last week.

Although the new, but the Facebook version of the Sims game has been played by over 4.6 million people every day, according to AppData, an Internet traffic tracking service from the Inside Network.


The Sims Social newly launched direct also flew into the list of top 10 applications on Facebook, by being in position 6 on the back of the games made by Zynga kinds: 'CityVille', 'Farmville', 'Empire & Allies', 'Texas Hold' Em 'and' Pioneer Trail '.


Looking at the achievement of the above, Chris Taylor of Mashable, estimated that Facebook could beat the leaders of social games on Facebook today, CityVille, at the end of September.


Because it is addictive, it's no wonder The Sims sells. For the PC version only, The Sims sold 140 million copies worldwide.


The Sims Social begins with the establishment of avatars for the players, build houses and the neighborhood. Gamers must continue to care for their Sim characters by bathing, resting and connect them with other Sim characters.


So far so ordinary. But there is what distinguishes The Sims Social with its PC version is: Sim characters are the property of the user's Facebook friends.


"You do not interact with Facebook friends in real-time, but you can see a video reply of what happened to the characters Sim's friends on Facebook," explains Taylor.


"Users can to approve or not, Sim character's relationship with their Facebook friends, to get to the next level of relationship," he added.


The players who are used to playing The Sims, may be happy or disappointed over the new features. In The Sims Social users can no longer control the entire Sims family, while those users who are sadistic are also no longer able to kill their creations.

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Google Street View in Amazon Jungle

Google expands Street View with adding cangkupan located outside urban areas, such as the Amazon forest.

As quoted from Softpedia, Thursday (18/08/2011), Google Street View now adds to its location to other areas outside of urban areas like the Amazon rainforest and the Iraq National Museum.

Amazon forest that will be visible on Street View are the rivers, forests, and some uninhabited region in the area.

"The pictures were taken by members of the Street View and Google Earth Outreach we are located in the Amazon jungle," said Karin Tuxen-Bettman of the Google Earth Outreach team.

Google today began to take these locations, so users must wait before it will present the images in Street View.

To travel to the Amazon, Google works with the Foundation for a Sustainable Amazon (FAS). Non-profit organization that is asking Google to come and take pictures for Street View.

The first phase of this ongoing project, which will take pictures of the 50 km river area around the Rio Negro River. Once all the pictures already taken, will be shown in Street View.

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Google TV Gliding into Europe in 2012

Google Inc. reported begin to launch its own television service in Europe in early 2012. This is expressed by the chief executive, Eric Schmidt, said Reuters on Sunday (08/28/2011).

Google TV service that allows users to access the web and television content through a browser on the TV screen, has actually been introduced in the United States since late last year. Unfortunately, these services do not receive a warm welcome to initial expectations. Even a number of popular U.S. television NBC, CBS and Fox to block these services.

The three networks, as well as several other names in television and telecommunications industry, did not want Google to "steal" their participation in advertising revenue without contributing to the creation of the program.

"Some U.S. worry, we will compete with broadcasters and content creators. In fact just the opposite of our goals," said Schmidt.

"We want to support the content industry through an open platform for the generation of a new TV to continue to grow as Android becomes open platform for mobile future," he said.

"Hopefully, Google TV could be released in Europe early next year," Schmidt said.

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Internet, 'Oil Field' The Hacker.

Millions of Internet pages are hijacked and harming millions of dollars in recent years has made it as an 'oil fields' for hackers, according to an internet security firm.

As quoted by USA Today, Friday (08/12/2011), the action hack into approximately 8 million internet pages of late, has been designed so that users can control the affected computer attacks.

According to internet security firm, Armorize, attacks by such methods that are now thriving.

"Abuse of the current small number of sites have made the Internet a more dangerous place," said Alena Varkocka, lab analysts from the firm of Avast antivirus.

"Even small websites that are not too important to do major damage if misused," he added.

Wayne Huang, Chief Technical Officer at Armorize, said that a small group of criminals using the server in the Ukraine to carry out attacks on several sites with mechanisms 'driveby download'.

"In the driveby downloads, malicious software is inserted into the user's web browser, which has access to a site that has been infected," explained Huang.

Added by Huang, that by being able to control the user's browser, the hacker was able to easily install all the malicious software that can retrieve all user data, whether it's identity, payment, social networking accounts, and others.

Google and Microsoft's own party said they regularly continue to scan sites were detected suspicious activities, and announce the infected pages through a browser Chrome and Internet Explorer. In addition they also provide free guidance and tools for sites to diagnose and clean it.

"But a lot of sites that get infected are not cleaned in time, as the hacker using a variety of ways so that they are not detected malicious software," says Jon Clay, Product Manager at antivirus firm Trend Micro.


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Facebook Challenge Google + with New Features Game.

Just hours after Google announced the presence of gaming + social services,Facebook also released several new features in its gaming service.

Newer features of Facebook was first presented Ticker game that serves as anews feed about the activities of your friends. The column will feature any gamebeing played by your friends, complete with achievement scores and record the highest value.

As reported by Mashable, Friday (08/12/2011), Ticker Game featuresdesigned to allow Facebook users to play games with their friends. Just like the Facebook News Feed, users can also set the update anywhere you want displayed.

 Player social games on Facebook can also enjoy a bookmarkingfeature that allows them to access their favorite games or applications easily and directly from the News Feed.

The addition of these new features is an answer to Google + Facebook recently released 16 games for social gaming platforms, including the Angry Birds and Zynga Poker.

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The number of Facebook visitors in Britain Declining.

Although the social network Facebook is still popular in Britain, but the numberof visits fell sharply in July, compared with June.

According to the company Experian Hitwise, Facebook users visit losing market share declined to reach 50.14 percent, the lowest since October 2009.Similarly, the line quoted by CBR, Friday (08/12/2011).

Experian Hitwise says that Facebook has lost market share of visits by usersranging from 53.72 percent to 50.14 percent of all social networks to British territory.

"The dominance of Facebook in the social networking market is not so lowsince October 2009 due to social networking is now only account for 50.46percent of all visits to social networking sites," said Experian Hitwise .

In addition to Experian Hitwise also said YouTube is now a social network that has the fastest growth for five straight months. "YouTube is also the third search engine this month. In addition, of course, eBay and Facebook," he said.

"One of every 35 visits to a site of 'run' of UK Internet users on YouTube. Thevideo site is now estimated at 22.54 percent of all visits to social networking,"he said.

The company said that Google remains the leader in Internet search with a figure of 91.04 percent market share of visitors. While the Microsoft site, Bing,was second with a rate of 3.84 percent for the month of July 2011.

While Yahoo's sites, said by Experian Hitwise has also increased market share of visitors with an estimated 3 percent of all online searches in the UK.

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Danger Alert WiFi in Public Areas.

Until now, Wi-Fi internet access is used by more than 700 million people, with more than 4 million points of hotspots around the world. While WiFi routers manufactured each year by 800 million units.

Based on the findings of a research project that was launched globally by Brand Tracker Online Security, presented by InSites Consulting (April-May 2011), and analysis of United Consultants, nearly half the world's Internet users connect to the Internet most often by using a portable device, the notebook into a device The most popular (41%), followed netbooks (3%), smartphones (2%) and tablet computers (1%).

An important note of the rapid increase in both the technology and its users that there is a direct correlation with the level of security.

Associated with some advice WiFi security, ESET Smart Security 5 would be the latest version of ESET Antivirus provides the features that will be useful to secure data connection and the user when performing a WiFi connection.

one of them is the warning given to alert the user whenever the user is connected to WiFi in public places, and then provide protection. Antivirus products that once a new generation of products ESET categorize WiFi connection at the maximum security level.

"What is not known to WiFi is a security risk of data especially related to data traffic that occur when starting Access. Login credentials and the traffic that occurs within the network-sniffing going to happen even before an e-mail sent over a Wi-Fi hotspots, so it is generally the mode of data theft in the network, without being detected, "said Camp, as reported through the official statement on Saturday (06/08/2011).

One thing that really look out for is when there is a hotspot network with an unknown name or a name similar to the official network.

"Problems can occur from the technology proxy, which is able mengintercept WiFi communication, capture, copy and store copies of data on computer players who are in the local network and then sends it via a Wi-Fi the truth. Symptoms can be felt from the scam email traffic slowing your data. But because busy network traffic by all users in the network, it will be suliit to know that the traffic data we diibajak by the scam perpetrators, "he said.

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Women Try to Sell Her Childs on eBay

SIDNEY - A woman from Victoria, Australia, were investigated after discovered that he intends to sell two small children on the internet, to the highest bidder.

As quoted by ABC News, Sunday (17/07/2011), called the police last week when someone on eBay offering to sell two children.

The unnamed woman is selling the sons and daughters, who were aged below 10 years, to the highest bidder on eBay.

When the police interrogated her, the woman told them that he was only joking. But Bill Muehlenberg of the Family Council of Victoria, said that women who want to do is serious.

"Kids at this age, still trying to find their identity. The action will clear the sale of these children have a negative impact on their search for self identity and their parents," Muehlenberg said.

A spokesman for the police told her that her case was still under investigation. The woman was still trying to get away from the allegations.

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Facebook Help 'Heal' Lion Paralyzed

RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazilian events in the following seemed to be an accurate picture of the power of social media at this time. Imagine, only armed with the campaign through Facebook and Twitter, Raquel Borges can ensure peliharaannnya lion who suffer a rare disease can gradually recover.

Ariel is a three-year-old lion who suffered from a rare disease in his endurance, so that two legs paralyzed since a year ago. Doctors had to perform surgery on his tail bone, which was claimed to cause paralysis. But after surgery, Ariel was even more weakened by his hind legs paralyzed, too.

Seeing Ariel conditions are getting worse, Raquel decided to choose alternative treatments like chiropractic therapy and acupuncture. Raquel then campaign through Facebook and Twitter so successful raising money to pay for such treatment. Now, reportedly improved the condition of Ariel.

Reuters reported on Thursday (07/21/2011), approximately 60 thousand Facebook users click the 'like' and hundreds of others to donate their money into two bank accounts belonging to the foundation Raquel who sought help for stranded animals.

Social media can indeed have a significant role in modern human life, where most people are always connected to the internet. The most obvious example of course, the revolution that occurred in Egypt in early January. Social media like Facebook and Twitter become the 'weapon' Egyptian citizens who were dissatisfied with the regime of Hosni Mubarak for organizing the masses and overthrow the government.

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Challenge Police on Facebook, Criminals Caught

NEW YORK - If you become a suspect of a crime, then challenge the police via Facebook seems not a wise idea.

Ask the J. Reuben Burgos could not resist the urge to test the intelligence of the New York Police Department, as well as strength sosiak networking giant with more than 700 million members.

As reported by Cnet.com, Saturday (30/07/2011), Burgos apparently thought his actions to update his Facebook status with the phrase "Catch me if you can. I was in Brooklyn", very funny.

He even made ​​a video that featured him running toward the police station in New York and to post on his Facebook page.

The action is not very wise, considering that Burgos was among those sought by the police with three counts of crimes as well as two charges of harassment against her lover.

'Invitation' Burgos finally met the police who traced the whereabouts and arrested in Brooklyn, last Monday. "He told us to catch it and that's what we do," said Sergeant Steve Hauck.

Furthermore, Hauck explained that the posts are quite entertaining Facebook Burgos was superbly cleared by the police.

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Google Maps Surrender to the Law of China.

BEIJING - Google is rumored to be subject to the rule of Chinese law in order to get permission to open the Google Maps service at the Bamboo Curtain country.

The news is obtainable Dow Jones Newswires quoted the source as saying the Bureau of Surveying and Mapping is reviewing applications from Beijing Guxiang Information Technology Co., which operates the Google mapping service in China.

Beijing has so far given permission for dozens of companies to provide web mapping after new regulations were introduced last year requiring all companies providing Internet map and location services in China to apply for approval.

Quoted by Reuters on Thursday (16/06/2011), foreign companies who want to provide services in China are required to create joint ventures or partnerships with local companies.

China has the world's largest online population of 477 million, according to official data.

Google has seen a slide lucrative search market share of China after seeing a local competitor Baidu. But the tension between Google and Beijing increased over the past few days, after the web giant's claim U.S. cyberattacks from China

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Google Confused Gaza Strip Palestine or Israel ??

JAKARTA - The message chain BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) re-circulated among BlackBerry users. This time the message mentions an application to vote by Google on the Gaza Strip belonged to tetorial Palestine or Israel.

One of the digital map service owned by Google, that Google Earth is mentioned was soliciting input through a poll on the Gaza Strip. As is known the area is still an area konfilik, which diperbutkan by Israel and the Palestinians.

But strangely, in a poll that said the message from Google is actually directing the user to go to another link, which seems deliberately created for the polls.

"Google is having a vote on whether to name Israel or Palestine on its map on Google Earth please vote for Palestine and share. DO IT! Please! All u have to do is click the link and click Palestine! Pass on 2 as many http://www.israel-vs-palestine.com/PS/E people, "wrote the message received Legal fuel on Monday (08/08/2011).

When Legal menyambangin site, it seems the two flags of Israel and the Palestinians appear on the front page. Here, visitors told to choose an answer regarding his opinion on the conflict between the Gaza Strip by clicking the flag of Palestine or Israel.

Until now, there have been 6,287,956 visitors who include polingnya, with a percentage of 51.7 percent for Israel and Palestine by 48.3 percent.

Not yet known about the chain letters are circulating, because so far there has been no official statement from Google about the polls they do it. Especially in the service referrals earth.google.com not listed on these polls.

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'King of Spam' Get 40 Years Prison Punishment

CALIFORNIA - A man from Las Vegas, California, which has sent more than 27 million spam messages to many Facebook users face many lawsuits that can be for 40 years in prison.

Sanford Wallace, who calls himself the 'King of Spam' is, pleaded not guilty at trial last week, after the accused had committed six acts of fraud emails, three intentional act of destruction against a computer system and two other criminal acts. Similarly, as quoted by The Age, Monday (07/08/2011).

The demands made in San Jose federal court, said that Wallace had attacked approximately 500 thousand Facebook accounts between 2008 until March 2009, by sending massive amounts of spam through the Facebook servers, as many as three times the action.

"Wallace collect account information of Facebook users by sending a message 'phishing' to trick users to provide their password" said the prosecutor.

"Then he will use the information to get into their account and post messages on the Facebook wall spam their friends. For those who click on the link will be directed to sites that pay for internet traffic Wallace received.

Earlier in 2009, Facebook has demanded Wallace under the federal anti-spam law (CAN-SPAM), which produces a court decision that he was temporarily prohibited from using Facebook. But he violated the order which adds to the lawsuit against him.

"We will continue to protect users from parties who want to strike up," said Chris Sonderby, Lead Security and Investigation Counsel, Facebook.

Wallace himself had been released after paying a deposit of USD100 thousand, but he is scheduled to return to stand trial on 22 August. "Wallace will conduct a defense for himself," said his lawyer, KC Maxwell.

As the 'King of Spam', Wallace had served as head of a company called Cyber ​​Promotions, which send 30 million emails per day in the decade of the 90s.

If successfully convicted of all the lawsuits, then Wallace could face imprisonment for 40 years and a fine of $ 1, 9 million.

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Facebook accused of Violating Privacy Laws in Germany

CALIFORNIA - The German official for data protection matters, accusing Facebook has been using facial recognition software, which is basically illegal in Germany and Europe.

Johannes Caspar, a leading data protection expert from Hamburg, Germany, calling the giant social networking site based in California to remove the site from which biometric data has been collected by them. Similarly, as quoted by AFP on Thursday (08/04/2011).

"If the data a user falls into the wrong hands, it is possible to compare and identify anyone who was photographed using a mobile phone," said Caspar.

Programs that are blamed by Caspar allows Facebook users to track 'Friend' after discovering a new identity through a biometric scan data.

The program is trying to match the data captured through photographs, the database collected from millions of Facebook users.

"This is the problem. The program is intended to track the physical identity of millions of their users," said Caspar.

Furthermore, Caspar said that Facebook collects and stores biometric data without the permission of the user, which is regarded as a violation of law.

German state which is known for outspoken on the issue of Internet privacy, has previously been criticized Google over Street View their products.

Previously the Germans had also urged for Facebook to improve privacy protection for users, especially in the Friend Finder feature, which allows them to register or even import the email address book overall user without their knowledge.

In January, Facebook has agreed to inform users that they got the address of the user's account that they make.

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World Wide Web (WWW) Celebrates 20th Anniversary Year

LONDON - There is a special time for Internet users around the world on August 6, 2011 ago. The reason is precisely that day, the World Wide Web (WWW) is celebrating its 20th anniversary year.

Yes, the WWW is always used by the netter before entering the site address on the internet. WWW 'born' on August 6, 1991, which was invented by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. British man launches webpage page for the first time 20 years ago.

Long before he was introduced to the general consumer, the WWW was started as a simple page that displays a link allows a group of scientists to share data within the confines of their laboratories. However, by Tim Berners-Lee introduced it to the public, and since then has become an indispensable part of life of billions of people.

Quoted by the Daily Mail, Monday (08/08/2011), London-born physicist who is also a computer scientist working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva when he tried to find a better way for colleagues to connect the data.

He first proposed the WWW in 1989 and post the data from the newsgroups alt.hypertext project, the project was then known by the name, "WWW project aims to allow all links to be made to any information anywhere"

While the website is first introduced-http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html - running on nxoc01.cern.ch.

Limited not only want to use for users among scientists, Tim Berner-Lee was spread throughout the world for the general public. "We are very interested in spreading the web to other areas and having gateway servers for other data," he said.

And collaborate they did in 1992, there were 50 web servers around the world. And the journey there for 20 years 19.68 billion more pages that are created or more than three times the world's population.

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Reach Members, Google + Use Twitter

CALIFORNIA - Facebook + Google does prohibit the promotion of any kind on their site. But Tuesday, Google's social networking does not lose sense to look for more users.

Origin of Mountain View Internet giant recently invited to present short form that can link a user posted via messenger, blogs hinggaTwitter without having to send one by one to their friends.

"Now you can invite friends to G + simply by using the link. You simply click the 'invite friends' in the right stream G + and you will find a new link to be spread via IM or posted on the web," wrote Google Product Manager Shimrit Ben -Yair on his + Google account.

Through this brand-new feature, users can invite up to 150 friends and relatives to a social network's Thursday, it was reported on Tech Crunch, Monday (08/08/2011).

Twitter users seem to directly move quickly take advantage of this feature. Proven search for Google + link linimasa quickly overwhelm the microblogging site.

+ Google managed to achieve their own phenomenal success thanks to last week drew 25 million members although only launched in late June. The rapid growth of Google + reportedly make up starts to feel threatened, so the king of social networking that does not allow Google + promotion in any form on their site.

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Support Civilians, Anonymous Hackers Attack Syria

Belfast - In support of Syrian civilians, Anonymous hacker group attacked the website of the Ministry of Defence of Syria.

As quoted from the Belfast Telegraph, Monday (08/08/2011), a site that has hijacked the show logo in the middle of the flag of Syria Anonymous. In addition also written several messages that read in English and Arabic.

"To the citizens of Syria, the current world supports you on the brutal regime of Bashar al-Assad. History is on your side. They always use violence, because that is all they have. The more violence they do, the more they are weakened," writes Anonymous party on the site.

Parties Anonymous writes also that sense of brutal civilian salute Bashar al-Assad's regime, and show their sympathy.

"To the Syrian military: you are responsible for protecting the citizens of Syria. No enemy can destroy bad Syria Bashar al-Assad's regime. Bela country against the regime!" added.

On the side of the site has been hijacked, there was also a link to a video about the unrest in the country. In addition, Anonymous on the site also posted a link Twitter account and Facebook theirs.

Anonymous last week has also hijacked about 70 sites of law enforcement agencies in the United States (U.S.). The group itself hacker claimed to have stolen approximately 10 GB of data in it.

Anonymous is known as a hacker group that brings a lot of political motives in the actions they did.


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Neighbors WiFi plows, Men Sentenced 18 Years Prison

Minnesota - A man sentenced 18 years in prison for having hijacked the neighbor's WiFi network, and use it for bad purposes.

As quoted from the SodaHead, Saturday (07/16/2011), have been known to hijack Barry Ardolf neighbor's WiFi network, Matt and Bethany Kostolnik. In addition Ardolf also said to have committed cyber terror against the couple.

Some of the things on which to base Ardolf detention was that he repeatedly had hijacked Kostolnik's WiFi network in 2009 and use it to access child pornography, as well as to send some e-mail threats to a number of politicians, including Vice President of the United States (U.S.), Joe Biden .

After investigation, it turns out that the reason Ardolf perform actions is because he never reported by the partner Kostolnik to the police after getting caught kissing their son who was 4 years old.

"Ardolf already proven that he is a dangerous man. When he is angry with his neighbor, he was terrorized," said prosecutor Timothy Rank.

"And he did his terror not through a general way, but through the virtual world," he added.

While lawyers from the Ardolf said that the sentence was too long for someone who has no criminal record. However, based on the results of the investigation, Ardolf was also hijack other neighboring WiFi networks, and terror against them.

In addition, also got a lot of extra Ardolf tunduhan, including identity theft on the internet and the alleged child pornography.

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Circulating Fake Invitations + Google

CALIFORNIA - The hackers have attacked Google's social networking +, for the first time through a scam involving 'invite' a fake service, said the report from Naked Security.

As quoted by Mashable, Tuesday (07/05/2011), false Invites spreads via email, and very similar to the original Invites. Users who are not vigilant will probably believe that the email came from Google users +.

If the user clicks a link in the email message, then they will be directed to a site that offers a variety of sex products.

The method scam (internet fraud) is very common when a major new product launch. So if you receive an email containing a 'Invites' Google +, especially from third parties, required vigilance in responding to it.

+ Google currently a hot topic in the Internet world. The majority of the response was quite positive so far. No wonder the hackers began to take advantage of these opportunities, to commit fraud to take advantage of it.

Google's social networking service is still in beta format and require 'invite' to access the entrance. Invitations are limited to a few days ago provided by Google, has now re-closed.

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