Released: August 13, 2008
Hackers want to be your (malicious) friend
Source: Jon Swartz, USA Today
Facebook isn’t just popular with consumers and marketers. Hackers are finding flaws in computer-programming language JavaScript and planting malicious code in the profiles on the popular social-networking site and its rivals.
Once cybercrooks break into a profile, they can steal data and turn the compromised PCs of the victims into remote-controlled machines that spew more malicious software, spam and phishing attacks.
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