Hacker can mine your personal info on Facebook easily (Security Alert)
Your Facebook privacy setting can give cyber criminal unauthorized access on your private information and later they can use it for phishing purpose. Don’t gamble on Facebook default privacy setting, else you will end up with a void wallet. You may be thinking how this is possible?
According to Wired, a blogger name Max Klein discover a hack which give an email, a real name. The whole hack actually observed through an email-marketers eye but if you think it other way, you will find how dangerous it can be for your real life privacy.
Here is the hack:
Save your email list as a CSV file (just comma separate those email addresses). Upload this file to your facebook account as if you wanted to add them as friends. Voila, facebook will give you all the profiles of all those users (in my test, about 80% of my email lists have facebook profiles). Now, click through each profile, and because of the new default facebook settings, which makes all information public, about 95% of the user info is available for you to harvest.
So, a criminal minded people can use your private information to convince you for wrong purpose or can use it for wrong purpose, that mean you need to change it something like I do in my profile:
You don’t need to share your personal info with “Friends of Friends”, I think it’s enough to share it with only friends.
I’m glad that you are back after some problem with your server. Now, talking about this post, I’m often amazed to find your articles really interesting and informative. However, I don’t think my profile can end me up in trouble as I’m using my secondary email ID for both Facebook and twitter.
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Thanks for your compliment and by the way, you find a good way to protect yourself.
If you share information with your friends, wouldn’t you by extension presume your friends are friendly with their friends?
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Nice point but here we talking about your security. When you share something to friends of friends then any people will get easy access to your profile by becoming one of your friend’s friend. Usually people on Facebook love to make friends to increase their friends count. There are many people who never chat with his/her friend after accepting friend request. So I think the tips is ok.
I don’t normally share everything from my profile other than my friends on FB or any social nerwork. But this is indeed a useful information to vigilize other users.
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You choose right idea. Securing privacy is vital always in online.
I noticed Facebook has a lot of flaws. No wonder hackers are finding ways to hack it.
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You are right Rose but Facebook still world largest social community over internet and hacker always have the reason to flaw it.
Scary revelation. Thanks for the security alert buddy.
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