But look closely and you’ll realize that they deliver answers to all of your bank’s security questions–and possibly clues to your passwords — right into the hands of the crooks.
“Facebook is the new frontier for fraud, says Tom Clare, head of product marketing at Blue Coat, an Internet security company that does annual reports on web threats. In just this past year social networks have soared to 4th from 17th most treacherous web terrain — behind porn and software-sharing sites, which you probably know to avoid.
If you are smart enough to have separate passwords for Facebook and your financial accounts, crooks get at you through a variety phishing attempts that you might think are Facebook games and widgets.”
Read Full Article at CBS.com’s MoneyWatch by Kathy Kristof
[Ed: This is why we don't play those "Tell Us Everything About Yourself" games on Facebook]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Con artists are targeting women on Facebook in what’s becoming an all-too-common ruse: They steal photos of soldiers to set up profiles, profess their love and devotion in sappy messages — and then ask their victims to cut a check.
…. Military officials say they’ve seen hundreds of similar cases in the past several years. Some of the impersonators have even used photos of soldiers who have died overseas.
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WASHINGTON (AFP) – Facebook began rolling out changes to member profiles on Sunday adding a new snapshot of biographical information at the top of the page and a bar of photos in which a user has been “tagged.”
The new profile pages should be available to all of Facebook’s more than 500 million users by early next year, Josh Wiseman, a Facebook engineer, said in a post on the Facebook blog.
From USAToday.com by Byron Acohido:
How cybercriminals invade social networks, companies
“So Alice clicked on the accompanying Web link, expecting to see Bob’s photos. But the message had come from thieves who had hijacked Bob’s Facebook account. And the link carried an infection. With a click of her mouse, Alice let the attackers usurp control of her Facebook account and company laptop. Later, they used Alice’s company logon to slip deep inside the financial firm’s network, where they roamed for weeks. They had managed to grab control of two servers, and were probing deeper, when they were detected.”
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2010-03-04-1Anetsecurity04_CV_N.htm
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