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“Likejacking” Takes Off on Facebook

Posted by Nexus – 01/06/2010

[via readwriteweb.com]

Security researchers are warning of the newest Facebook threat, something they’re calling “likejacking,” a Facebook-enabled clickjacking attack that tricks users into clicking links that mark the clicked site as one of your Facebook “likes.” These likes then show up on your profile and, of course, in your Facebook News Feed where your friends can see the link and click it, allowing the vicious, viral cycle to continue.

According to security firm Sophos, hundreds of thousands of users have already fallen for this new “likejacking” trick thanks to the clever and tantalizing linkbait the spammers use to entice people to click their links. For example:

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Was the Cyber Attack on Google an Inside Job?

Posted by Nexus – 18/01/2010

[via mashable.com]

A couple of days ago, Google announced a plan to stop censoring the Chinese version of their search engine, threatening to pull out from the Chinese market altogether. One of the main reason behind this decision was a sophisticated hacker attack on Google which came, Google claims, directly from China.

The attack, which used a flaw in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and a trojan named Hydraq is considered sophisticated not only because of the attackers’ level of technical expertise, but also because the attackers knew exactly who to attack. Now, Reuters’ source claims that the hackers have had help from Google itself.

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