Fake Facebook emails warning!

Peter Dinham
Wednesday, 17 June 2009 08:49

Business IT - Security

“Attackers will try to steal your login credentials so that your account can be used to launch future attacks—making you infamous within your Facebook circle of friends for inadvertently sending that message and causing future destruction.”

The impact of this attack, or previous similar attacks for that matter, has not been widespread and only impacts a small fractional percentage of Facebook’s 200 million users. However, due to the nature of these attacks, if successive attacks are launched the damage can multiply.

Notwithstanding the warnings, Sainkar says the impact of these latest attacks, or previous similar attacks for that matter, has not been widespread and, he adds, the attacks to-date have only impacted a small fractional percentage of Facebook’s 200 million users.

“However, due to the nature of these attacks, if successive attacks are launched the damage can multiply,” Sainkar warns.

Symantec has a few timely pieces of advice for consumers wanting to avoid inadvertently sending malicious messages to their circle of Facebook friends, including the need to maintain a level of caution around any messages from within a website or that appear to be sent by a website.

It’s also advisable, says Symantec, to use complex passwords and unique ones for each site, maintain an up-to-date browser and operating system, and be suspicious of requests to enter your account name and password.