Publications on
the alleged Pastebin Log information on more than 10,000 Facebook users may not
represent a security threat, at least in the social network as well as the data
is bogus, according to Facebook.
Newly established
Nepalese hacking Swastika crew team caused a stir when they left your Facebook
Login expected on Wednesday, picked up the development of a security researcher
Rik Ferguson of Trend Micro. However,
Facebook said that no hack has occurred and that the information posted is
garbage.
Facebook said in a statement:
This
does not mean hack Facebook or Facebook profiles to anyone. Our
security experts have analyzed these data and found that a set of e-mail
address and password combinations that are not associated with any real account
Facebook.
In fact, these letters / passwords from standard
phishing activity, where people were tricked into giving away their powers.
It is unclear
whether the data published in fact phishing data from an unknown third-party
sites, or complete garbage. Statement
of facebook, it would seem to exclude the possibility that the data is the
fruit of phishing attacks, even spectacularly unsuccessful and widely gamed
one, against the dominant social network itself.
Swastika team has
only been around for weeks, but already caused a stir by publishing tables in
the database and the user credentials that were allegedly stolen from the
websites of the Indian Embassy in Nepal and Bhutan government using the
SQL-injection attacks. It is unclear
whether or not the data is genuine.
More a comment on
"Facebook hack" that never was, and the emergence of yet another
burglary crew can be found in the blog post by Trend Micro zdes.Konsultatsii
the dangers password reuse Ferguson is worth reading, despite the fact that in
this particular If a
security breach advertised did not happen.
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