Facebook is presumptuous
Today, Facebook told me:
Nathan Sifuentes and Adriana Delgado Garza are now friends. You suggested this friendship.
Actually, I think it was Nathan who sugested my friendship with Adriana (or was Azael?), back in the 90’s.
Phishing to Facebook users
Wikipedia states:
In computing, 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 (read the full article).
ESET Latinoamérica has reported fake invitations to Facebook; when you click on the links in the invitation mail, you get a page that looks identically to the Facebook website, but is coming from another source, and expects to get your credentials to gain access to your Facebook account and profile. This would compromise the personal and private information stored in the profile of the user being attacked.
We are used to know about these phishing attempts with banking websites, eBay, Paypal, etc. but I think this is the first report of a phishing massive attack to social network users.
The solution to avoid this attacks is to keep eyes wide open: Always look at the address bar of your browser, and identify if the shown URL really corresponds to the website you are supposedly visiting. Also you could use web browsers with anti-phishing methods, like Firefox 3.
(anti) Facebook anthem
Almost my feeling. Almost.
Via: ALT1040
