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Sunday, October 18, 2009
Facebook Hacking
A new applications on Facebook, "City Fire Department," has been compromised by hackers. The application had been modified to deliver an iframe which can bring content from one Web site to another. This iframe tries to exploit vulnerabilities to download a fake antivirus program called Antivirus Pro 2010.
A few of the other hacked or bogus applications are:
- MyGirlySpace
- Ferrarifone
- Mashpro
- Mynameis
- Pass-it-on
- Fillinthe
- Aquariumlif
Ok, here is the deal - When you find a wonderful new application on Facebook do a quick search on Google or bing to determine if anyone has had any problem with it. You can also wait, yes wait, for a day or two until enough newbies have started using it to provoke any disasters - if all is well after this then you might . . . might try it. Just make sure your Facebook preferences are locked down for maximum security. Or just don't use any of these silly applications until Facebook gets a grip and uses some mechanism to confirm these applications aren't a giant security hole!
| Categories: Best Practices, Security Alerts, Virus-Trojan-Worm Alerts
