Facebook Phishing Scam

Yesterday, hackers used a phishing technique to attempt to steal passwords and compromise accounts on Facebook. A phishing technique, basically, is where the hacker obtains access to 1 account, and sends emails to friends, asking them to click on malicious webpages. Since both MySpace and Facebook require that users register their account, people who are signed up tend to be less suspicious overall of the messages they recieve, because of this signup process.

Facebook spokesperson Barry Schnitt said they were in the process of cleaning up after the attack, and he would not specify how many accounts had been compromised, but he did say that compromised accounts were being blocked.

Phishing scams represent another tool out of the hackers' arsenal. Last year a virus was spread around, called Koobface (in reference to Facebook) which made its way onto users' PC's by way of an email that appeared as though it was sent by a friend on Facebook.

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