BELMONT, CALIF. - January 28, 2008 -
Researchers at FaceTime Security Labs have discovered and
reported a hacking Web site offering automatically generated text
for use in creating phishing emails to steal login details for
popular Web mail and social networking sites. A drop-down menu on
the site offered phishing email options for Hotmail, Yahoo, MySpace, Orkut, Facebook and hi5. FaceTime
researchers immediately reported the finding to the site's hosting
provider, who disabled access to the site - www.hothackerclub.com -
on Friday, Jan. 25.
To use this "DIY phishing service," the hacker needed only to
decide which of the victim's email or social networking services
they wanted to target. Selecting the service they wanted to phish
and the kind of e-card message the victim would be sent was as easy
as using a drop-down menu. Once the victim clicked a phish link
they would be taken to a different site hosting the phish pages.
When the victim entered their login name and password, that data
would be sent back to the main hothackerclub.com website. The
hacker could then watch their login space fill up with stolen
account details.
The FaceTime research team offers a detailed accounting of the
hacking scheme at http://blog.spywareguide.com.
Increasing IT Concerns over Social
Networking
Social networking is fast becoming a top security concern for enterprise IT managers,
and with good reason, as employees continue to believe they have
the right to use their company's network for personal Web surfing,
instant messaging, and accessing social networks. According to the
survey "Greynets in the Enterprise: Third Annual Survey of
Trends, Attitudes and Impacts," commissioned by FaceTime and
conducted by NewDiligence Research, approximately eight in ten
employees will surf, shop and chat over the company network,
testimony to the continued blurring of personal and professional
workspaces. Corporate employees can be commonly found "looking at
interesting sites" on the Web, according to the survey, including
social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace as well as
banking, shopping, chatting and downloading music, photos and
video.
FaceTime's www.GreynetsGuide.com Web site catalogs and
classifies the security risks of a growing number of greynets of
concern to enterprise IT managers in categories including instant
messaging, peer-to-peer file sharing, gaming software, IPTV, remote
administration, multimedia, VoIP, anonymizers, social networking
sites and other Web 2.0-enabled applications.
"The Internet has become a platform for new applications and
collaboration. The consumerization of the employee desktop is
rapidly causing IT managers to look at the security, productivity
and compliance implications of instant messaging, Web 2.0 and
social networking applications," said Frank Cabri, vice president
of marketing and product management for FaceTime Communications.
"Organizations that learn how to enable and innovate around the
usage of these real-time applications can gain a real business
advantage. At the same time, these organizations are faced with
managing inbound malware, data leakage and compliance risks over an
increasingly heterogeneous environment of both corporate-sanctioned
unified communications platforms and consumer-oriented
applications."
About Actiance, Inc. (Formerly FaceTime Communications, Inc.)
FaceTime Communications became Actiance, Inc on January 11, 2011 following an agreement to
transfer the FaceTime trademark to Apple.
FaceTime Communications enables the safe and productive use of Unified Communications and Web 2.0,
including instant messaging, blogs and social networking. Ranked number one by IDC for five consecutive
years, FaceTime's award-winning solutions are used by more than 1,500 customers for the security,
management and compliance of real-time communications. FaceTime supports or has strategic partnerships
with all leading IM, unified communications providers and social networks including AOL, Google, Yahoo!,
Skype, Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
FaceTime is headquartered in Belmont, California. For more information visit
http://www.facetime.com or call 888-349-3223.
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