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Post by swamprat on Jan 6, 2012 9:11:17 GMT -6
Cyberworm Gobbles Up 45,000 Facebook User LoginsThe infamous "Ramnit" computer worm has taken on a new life as a piece of financial malware, and it's currently spreading through Facebook and scooping up thousands of users' login credentials. Researchers at the Israeli firm Seculert found a variant of Ramnit that has stolen more than 45,000 Facebook users' credentials, mostly United Kingdom and French users, and infected approximately 800,000 machines from September to December 2011. Spreading through wall posts with links to rigged websites, the new Ramnit worm takes a page from the Zeus Trojan, stealing people's Facebook account information and using it to target their online banking details. Ramnit can "bypass two-factor authentication and transaction signing systems, gain remote access to financial institutions, compromise online banking sessions and penetrate several corporate networks," Seculert wrote in a blog post today (Jan. 5). Read more: www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/01/06/cyberworm-gobbles-up-45000-facebook-user-logins/#ixzz1igjmnUJz
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Post by skywalker on Jan 6, 2012 20:37:45 GMT -6
I'm not exactly a genius when it comes to computers, so explain to me how stealing a person's login info for Facebook would allow somebody to access somebody's financial bank transactions? Do people actually use the same login info for everything? I sure as heck don't. I have about two dozen different passwords that I know of and probably another dozen that I have forgotten about. Anybody who tries to steal all of my info would go nuts trying to figure it out.
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Post by lois on Jan 6, 2012 22:51:40 GMT -6
Sky . this happen to Louise.. a year ago, I don't recall the details. But some one over seas asked Louise to mail them so much money .. they posed themselves as her Grandaughter Tess. She got these horrible telephone calls also. She said Lois they know my bank account.. She is very caucios now about everthing. This is one reason she would not give out her address. Maybe I should say no more about it here.
I'm glad my Norton has facebook cover for me.. It ask me if I wanted to have it check my friends out for virus. Boy, that was a lot of friends to go through but everyone checked out ok with Norton... and I need not worry about any of them.. But there are ways to get by any security.. I was old about this cyberworm by a friend on facebook. I passed it around to members. I must of skipped you.. I'm sorry. My son Ron has someone get into his profile remember . He had a heck of a time. He finally just sign out as Ron and joined all over again and it all went away... I only use three passwords my self.. Or I would get confused. like on here I was trying to sign in as Shamira.. lol My mind must of been elsewhere that day..
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Post by skywalker on Jan 7, 2012 8:30:10 GMT -6
I remember you telling me about it, Shami. I never click on anything that looks suspicious, and thanks to all of the people who keep trying to hack into my computer I now have security systems and firewalls out the wazoo. Norton seems to do a pretty good job most of the time. Even if somebody did manage to get into my computer or my facebook account they still wouldn't find anything useful because I keep all of my important stuff on another computer that is never connected to the internet. That way nobody can steal it. I think they need to start putting these little cyber-thieves in prison and make them pay for all of the damage that they cause.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2012 0:18:52 GMT -6
Sky, a lot of people on facebook play games. A lot of the people who play games on facebook make purchases through facebook for game items and quest unlocks.
A lot of credit card numbers are stored in facebook user's accounts because of the games you see. You can earn something called "Facebook credits" which allows you to unlock certain things in certain applications.
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Post by skywalker on Jan 8, 2012 20:34:20 GMT -6
I've never trusted Facebook. When I first signed up there I heard a lot of bad things about it and I've been suspicious of it ever since. Looks like it was a good decision to be paranoid.
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Post by Steve on Jan 8, 2012 22:55:45 GMT -6
Never been comfortable with Face book. It is simply because I cannot trust if private messages are public ones or private ones. Since the webs design is such it that it would be obvious, I am forced to think it is deliberately designed that way. Too many potential things everywhere to trip over. I only use it as a neutral plain mailbox if former case witnesses ever need to contact me back. It has provided one or two abduction cases. Have not been thrilled about Skype for the same reasons. I feel like I always have to put a tie on when in Skype. These websites seem to be the Internet equivalent of a nude beach, except they don't tell you it is before you have arrived. Strangers everywhere seem to want to be my friend. I don't click on them any more. Who needs to communicate with my 10,000 most closest friends? All facebook emails are immediately routed to my junk mail file. I call Face book the 'pet rock' of the Internet. Steve
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Post by lois on Jan 8, 2012 23:57:28 GMT -6
When My son was having problems. I would use the help icon a lot. Once facebook told me do not write at the top of your facebook profile wall in the search box. It can let in unwanted scrip. It makes scrips to all your friends and signs it with your name. Some of the stuff it put was horrible post on all his friends walls and his family walls. It was awful. Louise caught it first. She said Lois don't open anything Ron sends you it is not him.. Then I thought everytime Louise wants to go to a friends wall she types their name in at the top search box, instead going to her friends list.. Can't say that caused her problem, but I thought to myself why does facebook have the darn search if it causes all this mess. search me.. It only found you if you went to Rons wall otherwise you were ok. I told all the family stay off uncle rons wall if you dont want this bug coming to you. It is nuts and writes on your wall signed Ron a dozen times in a row. You could not stop the darn thing. Should of seen the language it used.
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Post by lois on Jan 8, 2012 23:59:27 GMT -6
And yes he used the search bar all the time.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2012 0:17:16 GMT -6
Uh oh. I use the search box on my facebook profile to find my friends pages too... I guess I shouldn't anymore... I haven't had any problems though... yet... One time my father posted something about the Oprah Winfrey Network. He doesn't watch that program and he posted it and tagged all of his friends in it. I commented on it that this wasn't my father even though it said it was him. He reported the website to the facebook people and he never had a problem with it again... someone tried to use my father to advertise a TV station. ~rolls eyes~
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Post by satansrini on Jan 10, 2012 12:17:38 GMT -6
I'm not exactly a genius when it comes to computers, so explain to me how stealing a person's login info for Facebook would allow somebody to access somebody's financial bank transactions? Do people actually use the same login info for everything? I sure as heck don't. I have about two dozen different passwords that I know of and probably another dozen that I have forgotten about. Anybody who tries to steal all of my info would go nuts trying to figure it out. hehehe.. a lot of them do........
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