Facebook and Twitter was Attacked
- Wednesday, July 1, 2009, 6:59
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Growth in advanced technology at this time is synchronized with the more pop social networking community. Where was this also seems able to provoke the attention of many parties that either the positive or negative. If the positive side, as we know, social networking site Facebook or Twitter classmates get quite a lot of advantages especially in terms of the ads themselves. So what if viewed in terms of the negative?
Yes that is said here as a negative terms that appear on the attention from Facebook itself is terpaut with phishing attacks, with more and more attacks like this, you can login account stolen and used by others. Indeed, this is not the first time threatening attacks Facebook and Twitter, but this is likely still ongoing attacks from the first. Now the latest phishing going on Facebook and Twitter is getting the user posts a link that when clicked will bring the user’s page on Facebook false, that if you enter your login, will log in your account will be stolen by people who are not responsible. In addition, you will fell ill malware. And said the attack itself as “drive by download”.
According to www[dot]beritateknologi[dot]com, At this time more serious again, because Twitter started falsified not only in terms of the home alone, but with the Tiny URL where the URL will look almost similar to Twitter. Wow, we seem to be very charming when we see the URL log ya. So also expressed by the similar Graham Cluley respond to similar things.
On Facebook itself, many a message using the subject of the message ‘Hello,’ and in part explain the content of your own that you click “arept.at” or anything ending with that. “At” (without quotation of course). Prior to this URL if the URL is clicked will go directly to the false page. This can steal your email address and your password. And later will automatically change your password and send email using your email to other Facebook users.
Suspected in counterfeit page there Trojan.BHO. But now it seems the URL has been blocked if you use Firefox and will be marked as “Web Forgery”.
“People who are behind this attack Scam attack many email addresses in a large number of users. Facebook will soon be quickly close all references to the URL page website and will inform to users.
One of the deputy speaker of the Facebook itself, Barry Schnitt said that “The effect of this attack and attack before the attack is not exhaustive and only affect the percent of users are misguided using the short URL. We’re just monitoring the system to update our system with a more sophisticated to be able to avert the attack last week, and we will quickly detect the attacks every week. ”
Some of the tips that you can use a Facebook account so that you do not fell ill phishing:
- Use the latest browser such as Internet Explorer 8 or Firefox 3.0.10
- Use the login and password to log in to different systems in different
- Be careful with the message or link that refers to the fake login page
- Join the Community Security Facebook Page (www.facebook.com / security) for the always up to date with the latest information of the attack Facebook.
Well, so beware if you log in, who is behind the login of your account, there is a danger mengantai anytime./p2t
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