Facebook has had it’s fair share of security woes and the latest is the discovery of a new Trojan that uses Facebook to communicate.
Interesting that it’s using the Facebook notes feature to communicate depending on title/subject of the note.
The actual malware itself is spread through doc/pdf exploits and not through any flaws in Facebook itself.
Researchers [...]
Facebook has had a fair share of problems, being a large community of course it’s going to be a ripe target for spammers, scammers and malware distributors.
The latest to hit is a spam e-mail claiming to be from the Facebook team that actually spreads a nasty piece of malware called Bredolab. It’s also been observed [...]
Just to put a downer on all the script kiddies, this utility WILL NOT hack/crack Facebook passwords or accounts.
You need to feed it biscuits (cookies) before you can do anything.
You can get the target’s cookie by sniffing, XSS, social engineering, ARP Poison-Sniffing, Scroogle search or however you like.
Once you have the cookies you can use [...]
Koobface is computer worm that targets the users of the social networking websites Facebook and Myspace. Koobface ultimately attempts, upon successful infection, to gather sensitive information from the victims such as credit card numbers.
A new variation of Koobface has popped up aggressively on Facebook and is attempting to steal login credentials for other social networking [...]
Well another reason for you guys (and gals) to avoid social networks, a new worm is spreading. Again they are using the same ploys that have been leveraged for years on e-mail and instant messaging.
Trust is gained as the message or link/video/etc comes from a known source so people are more likely to click/open/play it [...]
It’s not a big deal but it does show a problem with the way Facebook deals with data and how much power they have over people’s privacy.
A small slip in coding could cause much worse problems that this, plus this could have happened before but no one picked up on it. It takes a certain [...]
