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stu
08-29-2007, 09:33 AM
I've noticed a lot of people's myspace pages getting phished lately. At least I think that's the term. Where they'll post some stupid bulletin, or leave you a comment with a link to porn. This happened to Aracheon's page today for example.

Anyway, what do you do to clear that up? Just change your password?

Dave_L
08-29-2007, 09:39 AM
Yup, just change your PW and you should be good to go.

Street_Kings
08-29-2007, 11:54 AM
Yup, just change your PW and you should be good to go.

yep. phished is social engineering is all. It's like if i came up to you and said "hey stu, i'm with the HOA and we need to inspect your house. Can i have a copy of your house key?" When you realize you've been compromised, changing the locks makes the old key useless, same as with virtual locks/keys (username/passwords)

nicklk
08-29-2007, 12:05 PM
Make sure you dont allow anyone to post vids or pics onto your comments that arent hosted from photobucket. I had my account phished like 2 years ago and it was due to the video someone posted, made it so you have to approve all pic/vid comments on yoru page