Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Have a Twitter account? Change your Facebook password

Three's been a huge phishing attack against Twitter users, involving a fake Twitter login screen.  It seems that this is allowing the attackers to break into Facebook accounts.  If you're a Twitterer, change both passwords.
Here is my warning, based on my blog posting of November 10, 2008. (Twitter apps: fun or dangerous?) If your Twitter account was compromised you must change your FaceBook password immediately. Now, if you do not use the same ID on Facebook as you do on Twitter and you most certainly don’t use the same password then no worries. But if you, like many people (well, me for instance), use the same FaceBook ID as your Twitter ID and you just lost your password to a Chinese phishing attack, then your Facebook account is compromised as well.
If you don't use Twitter, or don't use Facebook, or have different accounts on each, then you don't have to do anything.

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