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Facebook turns to democracy to appease users, gets scammed

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« on: February 28, 2009, 07:09:32 am »

Facebook hit by new 'Terms of Service' scam
Second rogue application attack this week

Written by Phil Muncaster

vnunet.com, 27 Feb 2009
Facebook has suffered its second malware attack in a week, after it emerged that a rogue application has been posting notifications to user profiles containing malicious links.

This time the scam took advantage of the publicity surrounding the proposed new terms and conditions for the popular social networking site.

The message read: "[Friend's name] has just reported you to Facebook for violating our Terms of Service. This is your official warning! Click here to find out why you were reported! Request Facebook look at what has happened and rule immediately."

Users following the link had an application called 'facebook - - closing down!!!' installed on their PCs. This then spammed all of the affected user's 'friends' with the same message, potentially collecting personal information as it went.

"It sounds like this could be a new favoured trick being used by spammers and identity thieves to build up their databases of intended targets," wrote Sophos senior technology consultant, Graham Cluley, in a blog post.

Rik Ferguson, solutions architect at security vendor Trend Micro advised Facebook users to exercise extreme caution when surfing.

"Surely these two events in just a single week mean that it’s about time that Facebook reviews its application hosting policy," he added.

"Prevention of rogue applications with extremely dubious intent to propagate freely within the site is needed."

The scam follows another attempt earlier this week to trick Facebook users into installing malware. An 'Error Check System' application sent notifications to Facebook users stating that one of their friends "has faced some errors when checking your profile", and prompting them to click a malicious link to "View the Error Message".
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2237454/facebook-hit-terms-service-scam

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...Facebook did an about-face last week and dropped a controversial change to its terms of service that triggered outcry from thousands of members of the social network.

Facebook had trimmed pages of legalese from what is fairly standard terms-of-service language giving it permission to store and use data people put on the website.

People complained that the wording gave Facebook rights to commandeer and reuse information from supposedly semi-private profile pages....


http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/technology/5355915/facebook-turns-democracy-appease-users/

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« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2009, 09:32:13 am »

Respected blogger Will McInnes discusses Facebook's policy on holding on to personal data with the BBC's Ben Brown.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7897824.stm


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« Reply #2 on: March 01, 2009, 09:46:31 am »


Facebook scam: Ferrari man's true identity revealed

February 27, 2009 - 11:02AM
Stephen Hutcheon
Scammers behind the get-rich-quick ads on Facebook have hijacked the identity of a respectable 25-year-old from New York to dupe users into handing over their credit card details.

The man, whose name is Gary Marshall, was in a state of shock when we contacted him overnight to inform him that pictures from a holiday album he had posted online had been downloaded and used in ads and on websites that are part of the scam.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2009/02/27/1235237887679.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1
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Facebook took ads for get-rich-quick scam
Asher Moses
February 26, 2009

In a desperate attempt to earn revenue, Facebook repeatedly accepted ads for a get-rich-quick scam it apparently knew was defrauding users.

The social networking site said last week that it had removed the ads but several readers wrote in to say this was not the case and the ads were still live on the site as late as this morning.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/web/facebook-took-ads-for-getrichquick-scam/2009/02/26/1235237798521.html

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