Justin Bieber’s cell phone number? Nope, it’s a Facebook scam

Graham Cluley
@gcluley

Do you remember when hardly a week went by without cybercriminals infecting computers with the promise of glimpses of glamorous pin-ups like Halle Berry, Anna Kournikova, Julia Roberts, Jennifer Lopez or Britney Spears?

Those days aren’t entirely behind us (lets not forget the danger of hunting for sex tapes of Gossip Girl actress Leighton Meester, naked photos of Paramore’s lead singer Hayley Williams, and…

Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.

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Graham Cluley is a veteran of the anti-virus industry having worked for a number of security companies since the early 1990s when he wrote the first ever version of Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit for Windows. Now an independent security analyst, he regularly makes media appearances and is an international public speaker on the topic of computer security, hackers, and online privacy. Follow him on Twitter at @gcluley, on Mastodon at @[email protected], or drop him an email.

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