Ahh, finally I can try that new mobile game that everyone is talking,
and a message appears...
"You can either login with your Facebook account (and be able to play with all your friends on your friendlist with ease) or create a new account (and wait 3 years for the game to search for an unknown person who is randomly selected from all over the world just to play with you)."
Filling in my email and password, it would only be natural to enable the "remember me" option so I don't have to type everything again every time I want to use this application, unless I am practicing to get high score on Typershark....
Seriously, when one is presented with these options, majority of users will conveniently disregard the safety of their Facebook or other log in IDs. People just presume it is safe to log in via a 3rd party application and that their ID and password remains secure.
Needless to say, nothing is as it seems and thanks to Gareth Wright (click to jump to full article), it is stated that our log in details aren't so safe after all. The wonderful file containing the log in details just sits in the phone unprotected. Like turkeys on thanksgiving, it is just waiting to be sniffed up by malwares when plugged into a PC or such devices.
I ain't no programmer or hacker, but if this has been discovered and made known on the internet, I'm willing to bet my socks that evil forces are at work trying to exploit this before Facebook fixes this soon.
Time to change my Facebook password... again...
Hmm yea. I once got hijacked even on iphone via the web browser when I was surfing to a site via FB. Next thing i know, some porn vids was on my profile. FB took it down, but i had to change password
ReplyDeleteYup, 3rd party app log in is deadly stuff. Sadly, there are still so many people ignorant to the dangers. Time to be a hacker? ahaha...
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