Where the good guys go, the bad guys follow. The popularisation of social media services such as Facebook and Twitter has led to malicious links becoming commonplace.

If someone tried to scam you, the Australasian Consumer Fraud Task Force (ACFT) and the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) want to hear from you.

Yawn. Another Facebook development, another privacy besmirchment and probably another upcoming Zuckerbergian apology. Can anyone remind me again why they choose to live a privacy-free Facebook life?

AVG (AU/NZ) Pty Ltd, the distributor of the award-winning AVG anti-virus and Internet security software in Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific, is alerting Australians to the threat to personal identity of the latest scams being created for the tax return season starting on 1 July.

AVG (AU/NZ) Pty Ltd, the distributor of the award-winning AVG Internet and mobile security software in Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific, has announced the release of AVG Technologies’ “AVG Community Powered Threat Report – Q2 2011”, providing insight, background and analysis on the trends and developments in the global threat landscape.

Still getting over the Royal Wedding? Still shooting rifles into the air in celebration of the death of Osama bin Laden?  Well don’t get too caught up in the euphoria says security firm Sophos.  Scammers are out to take advantage of those big news stories with email and Facebook viral videos.

The Federal Court has imposed penalties totalling $375,000 on two subsidiaries of MobileActive (ASX: MBA) for making false or misleading representations in their TV advertisements for mobile premium services.

Teenage Facebook users are falling victim to a scam related to hit film Twilight: Breaking Dawn, with their accounts being compromised and then sending the scam onto their friends.

The ACCC says it received around 42,000 scam-related reports in 2010, double the number in 2009. Reported losses totalled $63m and one victim lost $4m.

Scams more than doubled in 2010 compared to 2009, with Gen X the most likely target, according to a new report from the ACCC. Costing Australians a total of $63 million for the year, one reported scam alone cost $4 million.