Facebook and Twitter Attacked Again

The growth of advanced technology is currently quite in sync with the more social networking communities popping up. Where was it also seemed able to lure the attention of many parties whether it be positive or negative they are. If on the positive side, as we know, social networking website Facebook or Twitter classmates enough to reap the many advantages especially in terms of its own ads. So what if viewed in terms of negatives?

Yes it is said here as a negative aspect that comes from attention to Facebook itself is adrift with a phishing attack, again with this kind of attacks, your login account can be stolen and used by others. Granted this is not the first time threatened attacks Facebook and Twitter, but this seems to still continue the attack there first. Now the latest phishing going on Facebook and Twitter are the users get the item link that when clicked will deliver the user to a fake Facebook page, which if you enter your log, the log of your account will be stolen by people who are not responsible. In addition, you alone will be attacked by malware. And the attack itself is said to be like a "drive by download".

Today's worse, since Twitter started forged not only in terms of pages, but by using Tiny URL where the url will look almost similar to Twitter. Well, we seem to be keen to see the URL when we log it. So also the matching expressed by Graham Cluley responded likewise.

On Facebook alone, a lot of milling about the message that uses message subject 'Hello' and in the contents itself to explain that you click "arept.at" or whatever it is ending with ". At" (without quotes of course). Before these URLs are finally when clicked will go directly to a fake page. It will be able to steal your email address and your password. And it will automatically change your password and send email using your email it to other Facebook users.

Presumably in this fake web page Trojan.BHO installed. But now it seems the URL has been blocked when you are using Firefox and will be marked as a "Web Forgery".

"People who are behind these attacks Scam attacked many users email addresses in large numbers. Facebook quickly will immediately close all URL references to web pages and will inform the users.

One of the deputy speaker of the Facebook itself, Barry Schnitt said that "The effect of this attack and previous attacks is not a comprehensive attack and only affect a percentage of users are fooled by the use of short URLs. We recently updated our monitoring system with a more sophisticated system to be able to ward off an attack last week, and we will quickly detect an attack every week. "

Some tips that you can use your Facebook account in order to not catch phishing:
- Use the latest browser like Internet Explorer 8 or Firefox 3.0.10
- Use different login and password to log into different systems
- Be careful with the message or link that refers to the fake login page
- Join a community of Facebook Security Page (www.facebook.com / security) by always up to date with the latest attack that attacks Facebook.

Well, so be careful if you log in, who knows behind the log in your account, there is a danger mengantai anytime.
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