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We have heard of cases of girls being blackmailed through social media or other cyber networks. However, there has been little discussion in the media of females who use the same means to harass men to extort money.
With the spread of mass media, particularly social networking sites and the speedy tempo of technological development in smart devices, it has become very easy to reach people living in distant lands.
Arab News decided to deliberate on this very sensitive issue, which has not been touched upon by most local media sources. It spoke with male victims, experts and social specialists to highlight the different aspects of this phenomenon.
Majed Bahabri, an activist and blogger on social networking pages, told Arab News that the many cases of males being blackmailed are for the purpose of extorting money. Cyberspace or smartphone racketeering cases are usually committed by girls and sometimes by males posing as girls. Unfortunately, extortion through blackmail has become very widespread and looming on social networks in different forms, causing anxiety among youth, Bahabri said.
Khalid Al-Saadi, an IT manager at a local company, commented that networking sites are open to all and that there is no way to impose restrictions or control users.
He said that users and surfers are of different ages and come from various cultural backgrounds and nationalities. In fact, nave young males or even men might fall victim to such scams. I would say that even rich people, businessmen, media figures and entrepreneurs are a likely target for some racketeers, usually girls from outside the Kingdom.
As such, it is important to raise awareness among our kids and the public at large about the dangers of cyber-blackmail.
Fahad, 36, narrates a real story of one of his closest friends, a famous media personality and columnist at an Arabic newspaper. Fahads friend has recently been duped through the well-known social network site, Skype.
The columnist received a private message in his Facebook inbox from an unknown female account. The Arabic message read: I am a regular reader of your daily column. Im 24, from Morocco and very interested in chatting with you over Skype.
The young man didnt realize that this was a trap for a much more dangerous game of money extortion. No sooner had the girl posted the FB message than he logged onto Skype and began chatting with her.
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June 04, 2013
The security firm cited a significant spike in a Koobface social networking worm.NEW YORK, June 4 McAfee Labs yesterday reported a surge early this year in malicious software aimed at stealing passwords at social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.
The security firm cited a significant spike in a Koobface social networking worm and a dramatic increase in spam in the first three months of 2013.
According to the quarterly global McAfee Threats Report, variations of Koobface, named in a play on the spelling of Facebook, in the first quarter of this year nearly tripled from the previous three-month period.
Koobface is designed to worm its way through peoples social networks, using messages to trick friends into installing the code in computers which hackers can then use for more malicious purposes.
The Koobface rise came with a continued increase in the number and complexity of targeted attacks, particularly in the financial sector, crafted to steal information that criminals could turn to their advantage, McAfee reported.
Cybercriminals have come to appreciate that sensitive personal and organizational information are the currency of their hacker economy, said McAfee Labs senior vice president Vincent Weafer.
The resurrection of Koobface reminds us that social networks continue to present a substantial opportunity for intercepting personal information.
After stagnating for three years, the volume of spam email leapt, driven by pump-and-dump schemes designed to drive stock prices to artificial highs by inducing people into buying shares. AFP/Relaxnews
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BELMONT, CA--(Marketwired - Jun 4, 2013) - Actiance, helping organizations benefit from communications, collaboration and social networking, today announced the next generation release of its flagship product, Vantage 2013. Powered by the Actiance Governance Platform, the latest version of Vantage allows organizations to manage security, retention, and compliance policies for a wide range of communications channels, including, enterprise social software, public instant messaging networks and unified communications, from a single platform.
Used by all 10 of the top 10 banks in the US, 5 of the top 5 in Canada, 8 of the top 10 in Europe, and 3 of the 5 leading energy companies, the Actiance Governance Platform allows them to adhere to the strictest compliance, regulatory and governance requirements.The new release builds on these strengths and adds support for Microsoft Lync 2013 and IBM Connections 4.5, extends support for Jive with real-time event capture, adds support for control and recording of Lync VoIP calls, and allows direct archiving to Symantec Enterprise Vault. In addition, Vantage 2013 is designed to provide a robust governance platform to support future communications and collaboration channels as they become available.
Growth in the use of real-time communications channels has inevitably led to the proliferation of business-critical information in channels well beyond email. Combined with stringent regulatory and corporate governance requirements, this has created demand for the capture and control of these conversations in the enterprise.Actiance Vantage 2013 provides a comprehensive solution to help organizations manage the use of these channels and identify and retain business records thus unlocking the productivity gains enabled by unified communications and enterprise social software.
"As the recent derivatives swap (LIBOR) scandal has proven, the ability to go back through communications for electronic discovery and compliance requirements is vital. Understanding the early case assessment of who said what and when helps legal and compliance teams plot a strategy and understand who's responsible," said Scott Whitney, VP of product management at Actiance. "For regulated organizations, and those with strict information governance policies, archiving and accessing this information isn't possible without an effective compliance solution. Vantage 2013 facilitates broad employee participation and adoption of social business with confidence to control who can do what, to keep an eye on their sensitive company information, and to make discovery and litigation easier and less costly."
Actiance's Vantage 2013 reduces the risk of litigation and regulatory fines with the capture and retention of conversations regardless of the communication channel being used.In addition to satisfying Dodd Frank and FINRA regulations in the US, Vantage 2013 meets the regulatory requirements posed by FCA and MiFID in the UK, as well as IIROC in Canada.
"As industry regulations continue to evolve and we are required to manage and capture new forms of communication, we must implement the necessary compliance tools to enable us to meet these new regulatory demands," said John Polanin, Head of Compliance for the Americas at Macquarie Group. "Actiance has partnered with Macquarie to help us build out these capabilities, allowing us to capture business-critical information."
"Vantage 2013 enables companies to add additional governance to the increasing number of communication and collaboration channels they are using today," says Vanessa Thompson, Research Manager, Enterprise Social Networks and Collaborative Technologies at IDC. "This Vantage release expands support for managing and controlling the latest enhancements to Unified Communications and collaboration solutions to enable greater visibility and reporting of communications in regulated and non-regulated industries."
Vantage 2013 Highlights:
Captures Lync VoIP calls including two-party and conference including metadata, regardless of the location of the call.This feature satisfies recent regulations requiring the capture and archiving of voice in both the US and EMEA, and does so with simplicity and ease.
Extends Support for Microsoft Lync 2013, the latest version of Lync, with compliance, security, and management controls for Instant Messaging, Voice, and Persistent chat.The result enables smoother Lync rollouts by removing the compliance barrier and mitigating the risk of costly sanctions for erroneous record keeping.
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