Facebook Under Massive Phishing Attack From China
Story bySteven Carrol
Steven is a web applications developer, living in south of France, originally from London. His current project is Myplaylist.biz. In the nin(show all)Steven is a web applications developer, living in south of France, originally from London. His current project isMyplaylist.biz. In the nineties, he was a designer / director of a highly successful design, manufacturing and distribution company (Intimidation).
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How the phishing attack works
You’ll get a message from one of your friends saying to log in, then if you do, you compromise your default username/password. What worries me is that many people are lazy and use the same passwords for their other online accounts (such as Paypal etc.). Therefore, these attacks can become extremely malicious.
This is the information I have on this above scam:
Clearly these are dangerous people. If you do compromise your password, you could find yourself in one big identity theft mess.
UPDATE: Looking for the five questions for start-ups category?
The guy who submitted this post to Digg (thanks by the way), has picked a somewhat awkward thumbnail – the one of ourFive Questions for Start-ups category. It actually is a cool category,especially when you interview some crazy Dutch guys who start talking about sex immediately.
