A virus steals passwords of users of social networks
also circulates a false version that allows you to see who's viewed your profile
LONDON - It seems plausible that a company communicates, via email and 'office', changing the password of users? No, indeed. So the air of this scam e-mail that is flooding hundreds of mailboxes can be identified even by a novice user Facebook. The latest worm (actually already identified in the past in a more timid) creeps using the popular social network and in fact unfolds via mail. In the inbox comes a message from Facebook.com, which warns of changing the password and account information that the new magic word is contained in a compressed file. At that point, running the attached file, are subtracted sensitive data from your PC. "Once installed, the password stealer virus can potentially access any combination of username and password on your computer, the information bank for details of access to email," said Dave Marcus, security expert company in the industry McAfee.
The other threat - but the scams that try to capitalize on the popularity of the site have increased 2.0 runaway and predictable. Trend Micro, a global leader in Internet content security, found several versions of a fake Facebook application that promises to reveal who went to see a particular profile. The service has been repeatedly charged to follow the voyeurism inherent in the curiosity to go and see who looks at everything on a profile and criticized for its lack of compatibility with the rules of privacy. But now it seems that the copies are falsely identified at least 25, with even fewer guarantees (of course) the original copy. The application comes with fake names like peeppeep-pro, profile-check-online-and stalk my-profile. In essence, there comes a shout convincing and reassuring, but the many Continue buttons do not activate the display function for checking the profile, but refers to another application that should earn money to scammers (scammers) by means of advertisements.
USERS INGENUOUS - I mean, at first glance the game seems to test the most naive, but the reality is that sometimes you do not think the pitfalls of Facebook and teaching in cyberspace that are hidden messages or email hazardous damage to many members sufficient guarantees. The social network in reality has already reacted by time, by providing all the necessary security on the Facebook group which has 1.5 million fans and teaches how to defend against cyber frauds, virus and other scams, too aware to be a tasty morsel, with its 400 million registered users worldwide and the blatant boast of having missed no less than Google.
PATROL - Still on the subject of security, we recently reported that Facebook refuses to panic button against pedophilia, which is a dedicated hard button to indicate the cases of suspected pedophile organizations for the protection of minors. Although at first and then the dramatic case of Ashleigh Hall (primed on Facebook and killed), the management company had no claim to any limitation on the button for the protection of children, is now back down, arguing that There is already something on the site and that this reporting system is very effective, being able to manage a large network of cases by the ambiguous picture the most serious cases, promptly reported to the police. The initiative disappoint one of the organizations leading the fight against child abuse, Child Exploitation and Online Protection and its chief executive Jim Gamble raises the question. In essence it and other organizations insist that the panic button is fixed on the main page of each profile, to reassure parents and children and inhibit the bad guys. However, as stated by Richard Allan - Director for European policy of the site - and Facebook does not give up and declare instead it will improve the existing service. For the moment the button in question is already used by other sites such as Bebo, the British social network dedicated exclusively to children, however.
Emanuela Di Pasqua - March 19, 2010 Corriere.it
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