Facebook porn virus/worm alert: Worm hidden in video spam of blonde

A new piece of malware is spreading across Facebook by leveraging either stolen account credentials or possibly a rogue app. This one is a worm that is being shared via malicious links on the social network, according to the Danish website CSIS, which listed the following domains as sources for the malware:


ferry.coza
maximilian-adam.com
bacolodhouseandlot.com
servi ceuwant.com
centralimoveisbonitoms.com.br
weread.in.th
villamatildabb.com
fionagh-bennet-music.co.uk
ukseikatsu.com
bzoe-salzkammergut.at
delicescolres.com
dekieviten.nl
If one of your Facebook friends has had his or her account compromised, you may be tempted to click on a link seemingly posted by them. What appears to be a screensaver, with a thumbnail image of blonde women, will be downloaded onto your computer.
This is in fact a worm: do not download it and do not open it. If you think you have been affected, please read Facebook virus or account hacked? Here’s how to fix it.
When the file is opened, it attempts to download further malware, including a popular Trojan called Zeus. This type of malware can take over your computer and/or attempt to steal your banking information.
The malware’s code is written in Visual Basic 6.0 and includes ways of tricking users on virtual machines. The source appears to be a compromised Israeli website, which is no longer hosting the file in question. Still, hackers can always use additional websites to continue spreading their malware.
As a general word of caution, don’t click on everything your Facebook friends share on the social network. I have contacted Facebook to learn if it has blocked any unusual activity related to this latest worm and if it has any more information to offer.
Update: “Almost all of the domains listed in the article were already blocked by our mitigation efforts, however, we are constantly monitoring the situation and are in the process of blocking domains as we discovered them,” a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement. “We have internal systems in place configured specifically to monitor for variations of the spam and are working with others across the industry to pursue both technical and legal avenues to fight the bug.”

Hacking Facebook Profile Using Password Recovery | Hack Facebook Password Recovery

This is a very good technique that can be used to restore and retrieve any Facebook account as long you have at least smallest of a clue of the person whom you want to hack.If not,I’ll provide you a few sties which will help you find out more about him and quite easily answer his recovery settings.Even though this method has only 50%-50% chances of recovering a password.It is at least worth a try.If not we have to go to other alternative options of Facebook Hacking

Matching Faces
I thought about this method as I was showing a friend through Teamviewer the pictures that Facebook was showing me to identify the target’s friends. And obviously, I was clueless because I did not whom i was even trying to hack.
What did I do? Well, as you can see the screenshot.
1.Suspicion
2.Security question
3.Confirm Identity
4.Confirm identity by identifying the friends on that account.

Before you try answering any of the questions go to some of these sites and check out what they do.They give you list of email address,nicknames,phone number and other details which the user would have entered on the “World Wide Web”.
1.http://com.lullar.com/
2.http://www.pipl.com/email/
3.http://www.spokeo.com
4.http://www.emailfinder.com
5.http://www.zabasearch.com/
6.http://www.zoominfo.com
Facebook provides the names of the target’s friends. So, use that information to essentially bypass the security of identification by searching those names on Facebook search and matching the faces based on the Target’s friends.
It will only ask you match faces if you are logging in with the correct password or if you get picked up from a different location.
Note that will need an extra Facebook account to search, otherwise Facebook does not let you search. Close the ‘Suspicion’ page and log in to your extra or your actual Facebook account and search for the Target’s friends.
Be sure to notice where your target lives so on the results you can compare whether if the friend is the matching face or not. Be sure to notice the names of the friends as well.
For example, if the name choices are:
George Bush
Adolf Hitler
Barrack Obama
Mohammed Ali
Lee Chang
And the picture given is of an middle eastern descent looking person, you should obviously go with the name that sounds middle eastern.
Once you match the faces for the identification questions. You should be able to get in without a problem.

Apart from just blindly following this method.You should also try to apply a little of your head into this game.You can actually chat with your victim and extract all the details

How to Secure your Facebook Account

In the past few years a lot of social apps have been developed which has changed our life completely. Now a days, we have 2 lives, one which is the actual physical life and the other is a virtual life which we live through these social apps. Facebook has become a major part of this virtual life. Nobody wants anyone else to take control of their life. Since our virtual life is online, we need to take care that it is not hacked by any stupid hacker and used for their own benefit.

According the Facebook statistics there are more than 750 Million Active facebook users. This makes is a very important target for all the hackers. I have no doubts that the developers at facebook are working 24×7 to make it as secure as possible but the hackers are also working 24×7 to find out a loophole using which they could take control of your account. But for our safety we also need to work a little harder. According to me, the best possible way to do this is by learning how to hack facebook yourself. If you know the loopholes you will never fall for it.
Now you might be thinking, how can I learn about hacking Facebook. If you ask me, I would say google it and learn it yourself. But I know that nobody has got so much time to search for each and every facebook hack possible. Luckily Rafay Baloch, the author of “A beginners Guide To Ethical Hacking”, has the answer to your question with his newly created “Facebook Hacking Course“.

Facebook hacking course is basically a set of videos which will show you different methods used by hackers to hack Facebook account passwords and how you can protect your self from getting hacked. It will include each and every possible methods that a hacker could use to get your facebook credentials. Along with each video you will get a lab which will tell you exactly how to replicate this attack in a safe environment. It also provides bonus techniques using which you could become anonymous on the internet. If you want to become a hacker this is the first thing you would want to learn. There is also a second bonus with it. You will get email support from none other than Rafay himself.
Now before you make your decision lets hear some words from Rafay: “Friends, if you ask me “Is Facebook safe?” my answer would be “Yes. Its safer than your own computer but remember it is still possible that your facebook account may get hacked and that is because all the hacking methods are client based and not server based, which means that the hackers directly attack you and not facebook. And securing your facebook account depends on how better you can avoid these attacks.”
Now I leave it up to you. You may go and take this course which I would highly recommend or you may leave it up to the hackers to find and hack your account.
How to get the Facebook Hacking Course?
You can get this Facebook hacking course from Here.

Five hidden dangers of Facebook

Facebook claims that it has 400 million users. But are they well-protected from prying eyes, scammers, and unwanted marketers?

Not according to Joan Goodchild, senior editor of CSO (Chief Security Officer) Online.

She says your privacy may be at far greater risk of being violated than you know, when you log onto the social-networking site, due to security gaffes or marketing efforts by the company.

Facebook came under fire this past week, when 15 privacy and consumer protection organizations filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, charging that the site, among other things, manipulates privacy settings to make users’ personal information available for commercial use. Also, some Facebook users found their private chats accessible to everyone on their contact list–a major security breach that’s left a lot of people wondering just how secure the site is.

In two words, asserts Goodchild: not very.

On “The Early Show on Saturday Morning,” Goodchild spotlighted five dangers she says Facebook users expose themselves to, probably without being aware of them:

1. Your information is being shared with third parties
2. Privacy settings revert to a less safe default mode after each redesign
3. Facebook ads may contain malware
4. Your real friends unknowingly make you vulnerable
5. Scammers are creating fake profiles

Below is an edited transcript of the interview.

Is Facebook a secure platform to communicate with your friends?
Here’s the thing: Facebook is one of the most popular sites in the world. Security holes are being found on a regular basis. It is not as inherently secure as people think it is, when they log on every day.

Certainly, there are growing pains. Facebook is considered a young company, and it has been around a few years now. It is continuing to figure this out. They are so young, they are still trying to figure out how they are going to make money. It is hard to compare this to others; we have never had this phenomenon before in the way [so many] people are communicating with each other–only e-mail comes close.

The potential for crime is real. According to the Internet Crime Complaint Center, victims of Internet-related crimes lost $559 million in 2009. That was up 110 percent from the previous year. If you’re not careful using Facebook, you are looking at the potential for identity theft, or possibly even something like assault, if you share information with a dangerous person you think is actually a “friend.” One British police agency recently reported that the number of crimes it has responded to in the last year involving Facebook climbed 346 percent. These are real threats.

Lately, it seems a week doesn’t go by without some news about a Facebook-related security problem. Earlier this week, TechCrunch discovered a security hole that made it possible for users to read their friends’ private chats. Facebook has since patched it, but who knows how long that flaw existed? Some speculate it may have been that way for years.

Last month, researchers at VeriSign’s iDefense group discovered that a hacker was selling Facebook usernames and passwords in an underground hacker forum. It was estimated that he had about 1.5 million accounts–and was selling them for between $25 and $45.

And the site is constantly under attack from hackers trying to spam these 400 million users, or harvest their data, or run other scams. Certainly, there is a lot of criticism in the security community of Facebook’s handling of security. Perhaps the most frustrating thing is that the company rarely responds to inquiries.

Do people really have privacy on Facebook?

No. There are all kinds of ways third parties can access information about you. For instance, you may not realize that, when you are playing the popular games on Facebook, such as FarmVille, or take those popular quizzes–every time you do that, you authorize an application to be downloaded to your profile that gives information to third parties about you that you have never signed off on.

Does Facebook share info about users with third parties through things such asOpen Graph?

Open Graph is a new concept for Facebook, which unveiled it last month at its F8 conference. It actually is basically a way to share the information in your profile with all kinds of third parties, such as advertisers, so they can have a better idea of your interests and what you are discussing, so Facebook can–as portrayed–”make it a more personal experience.”

The theory behind Open Graph–even if it has not implemented it–is its whole business model, isn’t it?

That is the business model–Facebook is trying to get you to share as much information as possible so it can monetize it by sharing it with advertisers.

Isn’t it in Facebook’s best interest to get you to share as much info as possible?

It absolutely is. Facebook’s mission is to get you to share as much information as it can so it can share it with advertisers. As it looks now, the more info you share, the more money it is going to make with advertisers.

Isn’t there also a security problem every time it redesigns the site?

Every time Facebook redesigns the site, which [usually] happens a few times a year, it puts your privacy settings back to a default in which, essentially, all of your information is made public. It is up to you, the user, to check the privacy settings and decide what you want to share and what you don’t want to share.

Facebook does not [necessarily] notify you of the changes, and your privacy settings are set back to a public default. Many times, you may find out through friends. Facebook is not alerting you to these changes; it is just letting you know the site has been redesigned.

Can your real friends on Facebook also can make you vulnerable?
Absolutely. Your security is only as good as your friend’s security. If someone in your network of friends has a weak password, and his or her profile is hacked, he or she can now send you malware, for example.

There is a common scam called a 419 scam, in which someone hacks your profile and sends messages to your friends asking for money – claiming to be you–saying, “Hey, I was in London, I was mugged, please wire me money.” People fall for it. People think their good friend needs help–and end up wiring money to Nigeria.

A lot of Web sites we use display banner ads, but do we have to be wary of them on Facebook?

Absolutely: Facebook has not been able to screen all of its ads. It hasn’t done a great job of vetting which ads are safe and which are not. As a result, you may get an ad in your profile when you are browsing around one day that has malicious code in it. In fact, last month, there was an ad with malware that asked people to download antivirus software that was actually a virus.

Is too big a network of friends dangerous?

You know people with a lot of friends–500, 1,000 friends on Facebook? What is the likelihood they are all real? There was a study in 2008 that concluded that 40 percent of all Facebook profiles are fake. They have been set up by bots or impostors.

If you have 500 friends, it is likely there is a percentage of people you don’t really know, and you are sharing a lot of information with them, such as when you are on vacation, your children’s pictures, their names. Is this information you really want to put out there to people you don’t even know?

Note:-This interview, “Five Hidden Dangers of Facebook” was originally published on CBSNews.com