Facebook new internet danger

[Ivo Banaco]

Dear Cynthia,

With due respect, this is not really a "new" Internet danger or something
specific of the Facebook. In all of humankind history, we always had people
who wanted to evolve and create, others mainly to adapt and conserve and
others mainly to destroy. If we want to understand what we face we have to
take them in to account, but not out of their specific context.

All the best,
Ivo
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 4:32 PM, CGayle <cgayle at zipcon.com> wrote:

> From a very computer savvy friend for those on Facebook.
>>
> Cynthia Gayle
>
>
> FYI
>>
>> "Koobface" Worm Resurfaces on Facebook, MySpace
>>
>> Security experts are warning users of Facebook, MySpace and other social
>> networking communities to be on guard against a new strain of the "Koobface"
>> worm, which spreads by tricking users into responding to a message
>> apparently sent from one of their friends.
>>
>> The latest version of Koobface arrives as an invitation from a user's
>> friend or contact, inviting the recipient to click on a link and view a
>> video at a counterfeit YouTube site. Visitors are told they need need to
>> install an Adobe Flash plug-in to view the video.
>>
>> The bogus plug-in instead installs a Trojan horse program that gives
>> Koobface author(s) control over the infected user's computer, according to
>> security firm Trend Micro, which documented the new strain on its blog.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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