MVP
01-27-2011, 11:50
Why I will never be on FB:
Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook Page Hacked. The fan page of Facebook’s founder and CEO was hacked January 25. The message that appeared on the page under his name read: “Let the hacking begin: If facebook needs money, instead of going to the banks, why doesn’t Facebook let its users invest in Facebook in a social way? Why not transform Facebook into a ‘social business’ the way Nobel Prize winner ... described it? http://bit(dot)ly/fs6rT3 What do you think? #hackercup2011.” The message received more than 1,800 “likes” before it was removed from the page. The unsettling breaches raise questions about the company’s security. “Mark Zuckerberg might be wanting to take a close look at his privacy and security settings after this embarrassing breach,” a senior technology consultant at Sophos, wrote on the security protection site. “It’s not clear if he was careless with his password, was phished, or sat down in a Starbucks and got sidejacked while using an unencrypted wireless network,” he said. “However it happened, it’s left egg on his face just when Facebook wants to reassure users that it takes security and privacy seriously.” Source: http://money.cnn.com/2011/01/26/technology/facebook_hacked/
Facebook Fake Photo Links Lead To Malware. A simplistic but effective bait leading to malware has been circling on Facebook for the past few weeks. Users are sent messages from friends’ accounts saying Foto :D apps(dot)facebook(dot)com/photobf/index(dot)php. If the user fails to find it strange or suspicious, a click on the link will take him to a page where the photo was allegedly posted prior to being moved. The next click on the “View Photo” button triggers the download of what looks at first glance like a .png file because of its icon, but it is actually an executable. According to GFI, many rogue application pages were involved in the malware run, but have been deactivated by Facebook one by one. The external sites that have been serving the malware have also been taken offline. The malicious file is a generic Trojan, and is currently being detected by more than two thirds of the AV solutions used by VirusTotal.
Source: http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=1607
Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook Page Hacked. The fan page of Facebook’s founder and CEO was hacked January 25. The message that appeared on the page under his name read: “Let the hacking begin: If facebook needs money, instead of going to the banks, why doesn’t Facebook let its users invest in Facebook in a social way? Why not transform Facebook into a ‘social business’ the way Nobel Prize winner ... described it? http://bit(dot)ly/fs6rT3 What do you think? #hackercup2011.” The message received more than 1,800 “likes” before it was removed from the page. The unsettling breaches raise questions about the company’s security. “Mark Zuckerberg might be wanting to take a close look at his privacy and security settings after this embarrassing breach,” a senior technology consultant at Sophos, wrote on the security protection site. “It’s not clear if he was careless with his password, was phished, or sat down in a Starbucks and got sidejacked while using an unencrypted wireless network,” he said. “However it happened, it’s left egg on his face just when Facebook wants to reassure users that it takes security and privacy seriously.” Source: http://money.cnn.com/2011/01/26/technology/facebook_hacked/
Facebook Fake Photo Links Lead To Malware. A simplistic but effective bait leading to malware has been circling on Facebook for the past few weeks. Users are sent messages from friends’ accounts saying Foto :D apps(dot)facebook(dot)com/photobf/index(dot)php. If the user fails to find it strange or suspicious, a click on the link will take him to a page where the photo was allegedly posted prior to being moved. The next click on the “View Photo” button triggers the download of what looks at first glance like a .png file because of its icon, but it is actually an executable. According to GFI, many rogue application pages were involved in the malware run, but have been deactivated by Facebook one by one. The external sites that have been serving the malware have also been taken offline. The malicious file is a generic Trojan, and is currently being detected by more than two thirds of the AV solutions used by VirusTotal.
Source: http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=1607