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Facebook adds verification procedure for compromised accounts
The verification page serves the dual purpose of letting the user know how the account was taken over - likely through a phishing attack using a fake site that looks just like Facebook, according to the message. Moving the verification process to the Facebook site and automating it should streamline the process of getting your account back, and hopefully give you some tips to keep you from exposing it again in the future. It's a good new feature, but I can't help wondering about the extent of the increase in spam that probably prompted it.
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maty said 12:39PM on 7-18-2009
So Facebook's new anti-Phishing procedure involves sending you an e-mail to a new verification page?
Surely the Phishers will simply copy this to Phish yet more accounts?
... Smart.
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SeB_or_Sam said 2:41PM on 7-18-2009
Unfortunately, that will probably happen.
Waqas Lone said 2:45PM on 7-18-2009
thats a good news....i'm tired of facebook spamming :)
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Slappy said 4:39PM on 7-18-2009
How does one lose control of one's Facebook account?
Is Facebook attacked and compromised or is one's password that easily hacked?
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Slappy said 4:39PM on 7-18-2009
PS to be clear, I mean in addition to phishing attacks...or are phishing attacks the only way this happens and they are really that effective?