Facebook Phishing

Be on the lookout for this one: http://informednetworker.com/blog/2008/08/09/danger-facebook-phish/

This just happened to me, someone wrote on my wall with a link, I click on it, and it leads to the Facebook login screen, only it's a phishing site attempting to steal my password. I, luckily, realized what was going on by checking the URL (it goes to http://www.faceilbook.com). I'm not sure if this is new, Google gave me only one search result, and it was from another blog post 53 minutes ago, the one that I linked to above. Keep your eyes open people.

The message looks like:
Somebody wrote something really funny in their blog about you . everybody see it here http://charleneko***.blogspot.com

The URL is different each time, but it redirects to http://www.faceilbook.com.

Facebook API

This year Facebook opened up their APIs to the world and challenged everyone to build custom applications. In this way, users could add what they felt was missing functionality. This leads to some really cool possibilities in rapid application development (RAD), many of which we see in mashup-creating sites such as Microsoft Popfly.

However, the problem I have with this system is best shown in a graphical format (to the right). It seems every time I login to Facebook, I have to decline requests to add applications.

Facebook has introduced a technological "advancement" and now it's up to us to deal with it, like it or not. I really do like the idea but I hope that Facebook will innovate a better management solution than this.