[HIB]Watch out for 'Likejacking' on Facebook

As Facebook moved past Orkut to become the most visited social media site, with close to 20.9 million visitors from India last month, it also bagged the title of being the breeding ground of online spammers and e-frauds.Security researchers have warned about the latest Facebook threat, dubbed as ‘likejacking’, which tricks users into clicking a link that marks a spam site as one of user’s Facebook “likes.”These updates show up on user’s profile, where friends can see the link and click it, allowing the vicious, viral cycle to continue. In all these cases, users are directed to a rogue Facebook application, asking for permission to access the user profile. Once the permission is given, the application can post spam messages from the user’s account and ask them to complete an online survey (the scammers earn commission for every survey that is completed).

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