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Twitter smarts will help you avoid this Draw Something scam

by Joe Osborne Mar 30th, 2012 11:00 AM

The funny thing about scammers is, 90 percent of the time, they hide in plain sight. For instance, Sophos's security blog Naked Security reports ...

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Everything you need to know about security in social games [Interview]

by Joe Osborne Feb 24th, 2012 2:00 PM

If you're playing social games on Facebook, chances are you've at least seen the scam attempts. But security issues go far deeper than News Feed ...

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The phony Pokémon games are no more, Pokémon Company responds

by Joe Osborne Feb 21st, 2012 12:20 PM

Nobody makes a fake Pokémon game and gets away with it, nobody I tell ya. Develop reports that the two Pokémon game scams that ...

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Scam Alert: Those two Pokémon games on iPhone are 100 percent fake

by Joe Osborne Feb 20th, 2012 9:40 AM

In fact, it's safe to say that, until a miraculous statement from Nintendo, any Nintendo-made or published game on anything other than a Nintendo ...

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Scam Alert: Mario Kart does not exist on Facebook, and likely never will

by Joe Osborne Oct 27th, 2011 11:05 AM

Nintendo has already established--rather firmly, actually--that its games will never leave Nintendo hardware. Alas, here we are, with yet another ...

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