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Saturday, 5 November 2011

‘’Mystery over Bogus data Dump Log Facebook Smells Phishy ‘’

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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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