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Facebook Members hit by another Phishing Scam
Written on 15 May, 2009 at 17:00 in Featured, Technology | viewed 255 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
In what’s just the latest Facebook phishing scam, hackers on Thursday broke into accounts and sent e-mails to friends urging them to log on to fake Facebook sites, according to new reports and anecdotes from members. The social-networking site is in the process of cleaning up from the hack and is blocking compromised accounts, Reuters reported. “Victims were directed to log back in to the site, but actually logged into the one controlled by the hackers, unwittingly giving away their passwords,” Reuters said, adding that the fake domains include www.151.im, www.121.im and www.123.im.Full Story : CNet.com…..
Phishers Target Facebook Again
Written on 1 May, 2009 at 18:35 in Featured, Technology | viewed 246 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Phishing attacks that try to get Facebook users to enter their log-in credentials at a fraudulent site in order to steal them have plagued users for the past two days, with phishing traced back to FBstarter.com, BAction.net and possibly others. The viral phishing infection spreads via Facebook contact lists of victims. Full Story : PCWorld.com……
Twitter hit by phishing
Written on 5 Jan, 2009 at 20:36 in Technology | viewed 248 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Some Twitter users were lured into giving away their passwords in a phishing attack. If you receive an email notification that takes you to any site similar to Twitter look at the URL carefully before login. Phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.