Facebook Users Being Targeted In Huge Password Scam

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Staff Writer

19 March, 2010

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Expect such cybercriminal campaigns to become more prevalent in the future as Facebook reaches 500 million users. As McAfee's spokesperson said, even with a 1 percent success, that's a whopping 5 million users worldwide, enough to start a massive DDOS attack.

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