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Îți cauți perechea pe internet? Cum să nu cazi pradă înșelătoriilor online

Cu ocazia Valentine’s Day, experţii Kaspersky Lab au decis să sublinieze câteva dintre pericolele care pot fi întâlnite în căutarea „jumătăţii” pe internet. Numeroase persoane rău intenţionate încearcă să profite de dorinţa naturală a oamenilor de a-şi căuta un partener. Diferite forme de „capcane dulci” sunt întâlnite frecvent în mediul online – și, sub impulsul unei „pasiuni” de moment, un utilizator poate rămâne foarte uşor fără bani sau cu PC-ul afectat serios de un malware.

Unele site-uri de dating prezintă pericole ascunse / FOTO: favim.com
 
Popularitatea unor site-uri matrimoniale precum match.com, badoo.com sau mamba.ru atrage atenţia infractorilor cibernetici. E-mail-urile de tip spam, care imită notificările unor site-uri matrimoniale cunoscute, sunt foarte întâlnite în aproape toate ţările. Accesând link-urile din aceste e-mailuri, utilizatorul riscă să îşi infecteze computerul cu tot felul de fişiere dăunătoare, care sunt descărcate în locul fotografiilor cu o persoană atrăgătoare.
Site-urile matrimoniale false nu constituie un pericol doar din perspectiva fişierelor malware sau a activităţilor de phishing asociate, ele pot pune în pericol finanţele unui utilizator credul. Una dintre cele mai simple înşelătorii menite să ia banii utilizatorilor este aceea în care se cere confirmarea sau înregistrarea vârstei printr-un SMS, care costă între 0.30 USD şi 12 USD. Însă, odată ce a fost plătită suma solicitată, nu este oferit niciun acces la informaţiile promise, deoarece conţinutul respectiv nu există.
Cel mai creativ tip de e-mail-uri de tip junk, care nu şi-a pierdut popularitatea de-a lungul anilor, este aşa-numitul spam nigerian. Autorii acestor scrisori ţintesc potenţiale victime care au conturi pe site-uri matrimoniale.
„Fata” care trimite aceste e-mailuri trăieşte de obicei într-o ţară africană foarte îndepărtată şi afectată de război. Potenţialul „mire” află că posibila sa „logodnică” este moştenitoarea unei averi de un milion de dolari şi că doreşte să îşi împartă averea cu viitorul soţ. Însă, pentru a-şi scoate soţia promisă - şi banii acesteia - din ţară, el este rugat să plătească o anumită sumă pentru a rezolva câteva probleme legale. Aceste strategii presupun o corespondenţă pe termen lung, dat fiind că foarte puţine persoane ar fi de acord să plătească o sumă considerabilă de bani mânați doar de motive sentimentale şi nu de raţiune. La primele e-mailuri trimise de victime răspunde un robot, însă, de îndată ce infractorii identifică o oportunitate, intervin în procesul de corespondenţă. Gestionarea unei potenţiale victime poate dura destul de mult timp, iar în această situaţie este nevoie de o abordare foarte personală şi de câteva cunoştinţe de psihologie a victimei.
Spre deosebire de aceste mirese „nigeriene”, cele din Rusia au nevoie de bani pentru a-şi cumpăra biletul de avion ca să îşi întâlnească bărbatul visat. Desigur, aceşti bani devin uşor de obţinut de infractorii cibernetici.
„Internetul oferă multe oportunităţi de comunicare,” explică Tatyana Kulikova, Senior Spam Analyst în cadrul companiei Kaspersky Lab. „Însă, nu este întotdeauna cel mai sigur loc pentru a iniţia o poveste de dragoste. Am descris doar câteva dintre ‘capcanele dulci’ care au fost lansate pe internet. Pentru a evita dezamăgirile, este bine să respectaţi următoarele reguli de siguranţă: nu vizitaţi site-uri matrimoniale necunoscute, în special pe cele promovate în mesaje de tip spam, nu deschideţi e-mailuri de la persoane necunoscute şi nu răspundeţi la e-mailuri care par suspecte.”, avertizează Tatyana Kulikova.

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Iceland wants to ban Internet porn

In Reyjkavik, Iceland's capital, government leaders are studying ways to ban Internet porn, calling it harmful to children.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Iceland is studying ways to ban Internet porn
• Government official says ban would be to protect children
• Island nation already bans strip clubs and distributing porn
• Parliament member says ban has "near zero" chance of passing

(CNN) -- Iceland is working on banning Internet pornography, calling explicit online images a threat to children.

'"There is a strong consensus building in Iceland," Halla Gunnarsdottir, an adviser to the nation's Interior Minister, told England's Daily Mail. "We have so many experts, from educationalists to the police and those who work with children behind this, that this has become much broader than party politics.

"At the moment, we are looking at the best technical ways to achieve this. But surely if we can send a man to the moon, we must be able to tackle porn on the Internet."

Such a step is somewhat surprising among Western nations that, for the most part, champion free-speech rights. But the move wouldn't be unprecedented in the island nation.

Iceland has had laws banning the printing and distribution of pornography for years, but those laws haven't been updated to include the Web. And two years ago, the nation's parliament banned strip clubs, saying they violate the rights of the women who work in them.

Iceland would become the first Western democracy to try and block pornography online.

READ: In the tech world, porn quietly leads the way

Interior Minister Ogmundur Jonasson has appointed committees to study the best methods for keeping young people from seeing explicit images and videos on computers, game consoles and smartphones.

The options being considered, according to the Daily Mail, include blocking the IP addresses of known porn sites and making it illegal to use credit cards from Iceland to subscribe to X-rated sites.

"This move is not anti-sex. It is anti-violence because young children are seeing porn and acting it out," Gunnarsdottir said. "That is where we draw the line. This material is blurring the boundaries for young people about what is right and wrong."

Attempting a total block of porn sites somewhere like the United States, with its legions of public and private portals onto the Web and the millions of software engineers who likely would spring into action to find workarounds, would be nearly impossible.

But Iceland has a population of 322,000 -- roughly the same as St. Louis, Missouri. That, and its remote location 1,300 miles off of the coast of Europe, would make jamming or blocking Web traffic to certain sites easier, if that was the route the government there chose.

The move is, predictably, drawing fire from Web-freedom advocates, including some in Iceland who agree with Jonasson on most issues.

"Since he claimed office as minister, Jonasson has brought forward progressive legislation and has shown that he can be a man of principles and courage. For that, I truly respect him," Birgitta Jonsdottir, a member of Iceland's parliament who represents part of Reykjavik, wrote in an editorial for London's The Guardian.

"But he is way off track in his attempts to place a shield around Iceland in order to 'stop porn' from entering the country."

A member of the parliament committee studying the issue, Jonsdottir says a porn ban has "near zero" chance of passing parliament and that she's working to find other ways the government can help protect children from Web porn.

"Introducing censorship without compromising freedom of expression and speech is like trying to mix oil and water: It is impossible," she wrote. "I know my fellow MPs can often turn strange and dangerous laws into reality, but this won't be one of them."

How Facebook killed the Internet

How Facebook (briefly) killed the Internet

An error with Facebook's log-in tool killed access to hundreds of sites for about 10 minutes Thursday evening.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Facebook error causes other sites to crash for users
• The problem, with Facebook's log-in tool, last about 10 minutes
• CNN, Mashable, Huffington Post, Hulu, Pinterest among the sites impacted

(CNN) -- For a few minutes Thursday evening, Facebook was redirecting users visiting dozens of websites -- including Mashable and CNN -- to cryptic error pages.

The reaction online was pretty much what you'd expect, with -- as The Next Web noted -- hashtags like "Facebookmageddon" and "Facebocalypse" common amongst Twitter users.

So what happened, exactly? There was an issue with the Facebook Connect API that caused users on sites that use that API to redirect users to a Facebook error page.

For example, if you were visiting Mashable and logged into our site using your Facebook account (and you were also signed into Facebook), you were automatically redirected to a Facebook error page.

Exiting the page or attempting to re-access the original site would lead to another.

Sites such as The Huffington Post, Kayak, Hulu, The Daily Dot, Pinterest and hundreds of others were all impacted. The bug lasted less than 10 minutes.

In a statement, Facebook told Mashable: "For a short period of time, there was a bug that redirected people logging in with Facebook from third party sites. The issue was quickly resolved and Login with Facebook is now working as usual."

The bug may have been brief, but it has highlighted just how many important websites use Facebook Connect for user authentication.

Over the span of just a few years, Facebook logins have become so pervasive that they are nearly second nature. It also shows that if Facebook has an issue, it can affect more than just its site -- it can also impact the hundreds of thousands (millions?) of sites that integrate with Facebook's APIs.

What's interesting is that a user didn't even need to be performing the action for the error -- and hijacking -- to occur. Instead, simply being logged into both places (and having the accounts linked) was enough to force users off of a third-party website and onto Facebook's error page.