Hacking: Hackers recently Used Facebook for Malware Attack
"Hackers, impersonating members’ friends, attacked Facebook by convincing users on Facebook’s Wall to view a video link that they said was hosted by Google. The Wall is a place were members post messages for friends.
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Free tool blocks Facebook, MySpace, and Yahoo ActiveX vulnerabilities
February 8, 2008 by Shanmuga
Filed under Software, Vulnerabilities
"A researcher over at the Internet Storm Center has created a powerful GUI that will set the kill-bits on vulnerable ActiveX controls used in Facebook, Myspace, and Yahoo apps. These popular apps came under attack on Monday after researchers Elazar Broad and Krystian Kloskowski disclosed their findings to a online security newsgroup.
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Kill ActiveX
February 8, 2008 by Shanmuga
Filed under Vulnerabilities
"A wave of bugs in the plug-in technology used by Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer browser has some security experts, including those at US-CERT, recommending that users disable all ActiveX controls.
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Critical flaws found in MySpace, Facebook ActiveX controls
February 8, 2008 by Shanmuga
Filed under Vulnerabilities
"Bugs in the ActiveX controls on popular social networking sites Facebook and MySpace can be used by hackers to snatch control of Windows PCs, security experts said today. Initially made public by researcher Elazar Broad on the Full Disclosure security mailing list, the vulnerabilities are in a pair of ActiveX controls that Facebook and MySpace provide to users for uploading images to their pages via Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) browser.
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Privacy: Facebook faces privacy questions
"Facebook is to be quizzed about its data protection policies by the Information Commissioner’s Office. The investigation follows a complaint by a user of the social network who was unable to fully delete their profile even after terminating their account. Currently, personal information remains on Facebook’s servers even after a user deactivates an account.
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