As Facebook has emerged as the most popular Social Networking site (with a user base of 800 Million active users) it has also gained attention of hackers and spammers. As in the case of Windows, the more popular it is, more are the chances of it getting attacked. The reason that both Windows and Facebook are easy target is same: it has large number of population and most of them are common users with limited or no knowledge of “security”. It is an open secret that people are the weakest link when it comes to security. Keeping this in mind, I would like to request readers not to be the weakest link and to follow these best practices to avoid being hacked:

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With the advancement of technology advanced are the dangers. On an unsecure wi-fi connection hacking facebook is child’s play. You might have heard of “Firesheep” add on of Firefox which enables to login in to others’ opened facebook account on the same network. Apart from that, packet sniffers can also be used to steal your password on the fly. Man in the middle attacks are also very popular in the same sense.

VUPEN Vulnerability Research Team discovered a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability is caused by a use-after-free error in the TIME (datime.dll) module when loaded via a specific behavior, which could be exploited by remote attackers to compromise a vulnerable system via a specially crafted web page.