If you’re an avid gamer on Facebook or visit various application pages, you could be at risk for being hacked. Chief Research Officer, Roger Thompson, has come across a half-dozen Facebook games and application pages that have been affected. Although hacked profiles are not uncommon, this is the first that Thompson has seen application being hacked.
According to Thompson’s findings, these hackers have somehow put “iframes” (small hidden computer code) into each of the pages that users go to in order to use the apps and games. If you’re running outdated Adobe software, you’re vulnerable. If you are running an outdated version of Adobe Reader and its patches are not updated, you could be hacked. Adobe released a new Acrobat version this week which repairs approximately 29 vulnerabilities. In July, Thompson wrote a column, “PC Infections Often Spread To Websites”, and in there he explains how malware can place malicious iframes into the available web page files on the victims PC in order to further spread the virus.
Facebook spokesman Simon Axton released a statement to Security Fix saying “This was a low volume attack affecting a small number of applications with relatively few users. However, we take all reports of malicious activity seriously and quickly placed a moratorium on the applications yesterday afternoon making them unavailable. We also contacted the developers to notify them of the issue so they can fix it. We won’t make the applications available again until the problem has been resolved.”
Make sure you run the latest updates from Adobe to protect yourself. Again, this is an eye opener to the fact that your information is never “safe” out there and third party software can pose a huge risk even though you’re accessing it through a trusted site
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Have not been able to play Farm Town, FarmVille, YoVille, Mafia Wars, Cafe World, yet I can get into Fish World and Lil Farm. Want to get back in the other games. Please help, this has been going on since before Oct. 8th
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Zoosk is my favorite app. I hope it doesn’t get hacked lol. Then everybody would be able to see all the guys I message LOL!!
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I have been playing scrabble with my daughter in NY. For few days now I cannot get the s for scrabble to show on my bar. How do I get into our game?