Facebook hit by phishing attack

A scam that tries to steal people’s Facebook password details – using a website that mimics Facebook’s login page – is spreading rapidly through the social networking site.The scam’s emergence comes as a report shows that Facebook was the seventh most popular target of such “phishing” scams in March – although it is some distance behind PayPal and eBay, the two most popular targets, and banks such as Bank of America, HSBC and Alliance Bank.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/apr/30/facebook-phishing-scamPhishers Target Facebook Again
A number of phishing attacks that have struck Facebook users in the past two days have put the social networking site and its users on the defense.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.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/164212/.htmlFacebook Expands Security Tools While Combating Phishing Attack
Facebook will expand its use of MarkMonitor AntiFraud Solutions to fight phishing attacks, the companies announced as the site was under attack.Facebook supplements its own security tools with MarkMonitor’s security tools and services, which provide around-the-clock monitoring and prevention, as well as site shutdowns, forensic reporting, and a rapid-response network. Panda Security provides detection and analysis of malware.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/social_network/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217201167Go Phish! How to Guard Your Privacy on Facebook
Facebook users who are concerned about keeping control of their information should get themselves over to the social network’s Privacy Settings page without delay.While Facebook has recently revamped its interface and provided new ways for users to filter information, the new options make it easier to control what you see from others, not what you reveal to them. The ways you control outgoing information – the news you ‘publish’, in new Facebook-speak – haven’t changed.
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