Phishing attacks on Facebook The Generalized Print E-mail
Image Name of Facebook as the largest social networking website in the world also did not escape the target of cyber criminals. Having previously managed to overcome the problem of the debate about their Terms of Service, this time Facebook Phishing problem. For two days today, some dangerous attacks provoked by the victim to a fake web site Facebook is reported to have occurred.
The signs of phishing on Facebook fairly easily recognizable. Users receive a message from the contact list that usually contains the words "Check this out". Then the perpetrator invited the victim to click on a link that will take them out of Facebook. On Thursday, Facebook users receive messages from FBStarter.com. Meanwhile on Wednesday the attack to come from BAction.net Facebook.
Facebook party claimed that the attacks stopped every few hours on each case. Facebook also stated that there is no certainty whether the attack of the two websites are related to each other or not.
Facebook have removed the URL from the member page and remove URLs in mail messages. For users who have been caught this phishing attack, the Facebook has reset their password. Facebook also encourage the user should not clicking on suspicious links and recommends that users who have become victims to immediately change the password.
Some time ago, phishing attacks also has begun intensively occurs in the virtual world. Some of these phishing attacks occur through popular IM such as Yahoo Messenger. Phishing is the process to obtain sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and even credit card details by pretending to be the owner of the website.
Usually the offender to lure victims into the website created similar to the original website. On the web page that, the perpetrator has put a username and password box and asked victims to fill the box. In fact the victim had given a username and password to the perpetrator.
