Erstellt am: 26. 5. 2009 - 10:32 Uhr
Today's webtip: No Phishing
You all know what phishing scams are, right? Most people probably associate them with attempts at stealing your login credentials for banking sites and such things. Those mails you get looking like official communications from your bank finding all sorts of reasons to get you to go log in to your online bank account, except the site you end up logging into isn't really an official site at all, and you end up making it really easy for someone to take control of your account.
Well, now they are out for social networking logins as well.
Over the last couple of days I have recieved many mails from friends on facebook telling me to go check out a site called whiteflash. Getting multiple mails with identical content isn't such a strange thing on Facebook thanks to the spamlike qualities of most of the facebook apps, but something smelled fishy so I googled it first. Turns out that a series of domains in the .be space have been set up to grab your password.
I know this isn't the first time Facebook has been phished, but it's the first time any one I know has fallen for it, so it seemed like a good idea to warn you. The article on Mashables suggest people who have found that they are sending out the mails should:
mashable.com
1: clear their cookies
2: Change their Facebook Password
3: Make sure their Anti-Virus software is up to date and do a full scan.
And if you get mails like this from friends tell them what's up.