Cybercriminals Can Control Your Email Credentials
By Gina on July 16, 2010 | Computer Security, Cybercriminals, Email, credentials, Facebook, theft, haccker, attacker, crime, social networking, Facebook Credits
TrendLabs announces that hackers still are able to get your email credentials. At first site it may seem that you are safe from thefts but actually there is a risk though.
When you forget your password usually there is an option to get a new one. Your fresh password is send to your email. These password resets are likable by hackers because they lures to target data to get enter key to your email accounts.
By having a power to control your email credentials attackers are able to reset your passwords in many websites. Usually those web pages that send you “welcome” letters with your passwords and few others ID codes are great bait for the cybercriminals. This is how you can become a victim of the theft. In addition, your email contacts can also be added to spam databases. This is a quite big possibility to make damage to your friends.
That’s why saying that there is no money linked to accounts, or there is nothing to steal, or that your Facebook account is useless for hackers, is quite wrong because, actually, it is a great background for them to make a crime.
Social networks are more useful for plundering date because they can also send malicious links around and try to steal the social networking credentials of your friends. It‘s not true that there is no money in social networking. Actually there is, for example, Facebook has its own currency – Facebook Credits. You can use the credits to buy virtual goods either on Facebook itself or in the many virtual games that use Facebook as platform.
For wanting to buy these credits you have to use your credit card and make a transfer. You may say that there are few people who do that. Yes, that’s true; however, in the future it might not be the case. In these circumstances by stealing your Facebook credentials attacker also includes you credit card data.
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