I've finally relented and wired up Wakeboard UK to Facebook. It's obvious the way things have gone now that nearly all mobiles are able to grab Facebook streams on the move. Stage one is the hook up the news articles on Wakeboard UK over to a Fanpage on Facebook. Ping.fm provided the bridge and I wrote the feed for the articles homepage, nice and simple.
Another bit of Facebooking(?) I did recently was to investigate one of my younger rellies' hacked facebook account. Interestingly the mechanism involved a worm like messaging system that directed the unsuspecting victim to a fake login page... thus allowing harvesting of the Facebook credentials.
Once nabbed the worm iterated the user's contact list sending the same phishing message on... simple but effective. Cleanup involved resetting my rellie's password and double checking they hadn't 'Liked' something they didn't like. We also turned off mobile posting as the worm messages had come via the mobile api. Finally we gave my unsuspecting relatives a short course on checking https certificates and making sure the url matched the website.
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