Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Has your Facebook been hacked?

I used to get Internet pharmacy emails from friends with web-based email accounts...I still get a few of those from time to time, but more often I get posts from them on Facebook now (same scammers, new tricks).

Here's a great article on how this works, how to prevent it, and what to do if it happens to you:

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/01/23/facebook-scam-guy-that-lives-in-my-street-killed-his-girlfriend-today/

Deep thought about computers and security: If I let you trick me, did you really trick me?