I am not surprise of the different, funny and violent images that I always see in my Facebook news feed because I know that those are edited, but few days ago, as I open my account in the said social network to see any updates, I was pretty shocked when I saw this on one of my friend’s status:
“ATTENTION : THE HACKERS HAVE ALREADY ENTERED FACEBOOK AND THEY ARE PUTTING SEXUAL VIDEOS FROM YOUR NAME TO THE WALLS OF YOUR FRIENDS WITHOUT YOU KNOWING IT! YOU DON’T SEE IT, BUT OTHER PEOPLE CAN SEE IT AS IF IT WERE A PUBLICATION THAT YOU MADE! SO IF YOU RECEIVE SOMETHING ABOUT A VIDEO, IT’S NOT MINE! Copy this onto your wall, it’s for THE SECURITY OF YOUR OWN IMAGE.”
I then look for some proof if this is true, until I noticed one of my friend’s friend complaining that there are abusive pictures flaunting her innocent face. Oh! I was in tension of opposites if she’s kidding, but she’s not! There are really abusive pictures that are spreading right now! Bare and exposed pictures of yourself that you can’t imagine posting it by yourself!
Well, why don’t we ask Mark Zuckerberg about it?
According to Facebook’s security team spokesman Frederic Wolens, a hack that exploited some Web browsers was responsible for a flood of (–foul word(s) removed–), violent images and other graphic content that spread across the site over the past couple of days.
Me, myself is upset about it and I know, users around the world were hysterical what’s happening in the social-media giant they are in. In a post collected by a security software developer Sophos in Twitter, users says about Facebook like:
“Seeing a dead dog on my Facebook news feed …….. Officially deactivating it,” other said, “I saw a dead dog, Justin Bieber [performing a sex act] and a naked grandma, time to delete facebook.”
Graham Cluley, a consultant with Web security firm Sophos, said that “explicit and violent” images had been flooding the News Feeds of Facebook users for the past 24 hours or so.
What’s clear,” Cluley wrote, “is that mischief-makers are upsetting many Facebook users and making the social networking site far from a family-friendly place.”
Moreover, the blog AllFacebook reported that the social-media giant had been quietly taking down the images. Jackie Cohen said a request for comment on the images merely got a reply thanking her for “flagging” the images.
“The fact that these photos spread for as long as 48 hours unchecked shows how much Facebook relies on individual users to flag inappropriate content: people were commenting on the images more than flagging them,” she wrote.
A group claiming allegiance to Anonymous announced it was going to make November 5 “Kill Facebook Day.” That day came and went with little noticeable activity.
But last week, an Anonymous-affiliated group announced in a YouTube video that it had created the “Fawkes virus,” a sophisticated tool that would attack Facebook and once it seizes your account, it spreads itself by making friend requests, sending private messages, and posting malicious links to your friends’ walls—all without your knowledge.
Facebook did not say anything about who may have been behind the attacks but they advised users never to copy and paste unknown code into their browser bars, always use up-to-date browsers and use the “Report” links on Facebook to report suspicious activity when they see it.
This is very alarming but we can do something about it! You don’t have to deactivated your Facebook account, just don’t expose yourself too much and keep some small dosage of privacy!
Anonymous Operation ”Fawkes Virus”
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