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Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:27:52 +0000

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By: mayankdhingra

mayankdhingra — Sat, 30 May 2009 03:40:26 +0000

@Netra and what led to all this ? read this, it might be helpful in future http://bit.ly/cvRTd

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By: mayank

mayank — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:53:50 +0000

@Gaurav: Firstly, thanks for sharing that piece of info with me, i didn’t know about it and secondly we needn’t worry about them in current context as neither FB messages or email lets you use javascript.

@Harold: Thanks , yes FB has been doing well so far but such attacks are meant to explore people more than systems

By: Harold Cabezas

Harold Cabezas — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:53:47 +0000

Great blog post, Mayank. Yes, it is surprising how many people fall for this. It also does not help that, compared to MySpace or Friendster, Facebook was really good about keeping these phishing attacks out so people got very trusting of any messages sent within the facebook domain.

By: Gaurav

Gaurav — Wed, 27 May 2009 05:24:07 +0000

Even the target URL showing up in the browser’s status bar can be faked by javascript.

Something like onmouseover=’status.message=’myblog.com”

Any thoughts on how to get around that?

By: mayankdhingra

mayankdhingra — Tue, 26 May 2009 17:58:41 +0000

3 really simple checks to avoid being phished http://bit.ly/4Inyr

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