Be careful! Your Yahoo Messenger is seized by people

DO NOT dally if you want your Yahoo "taken by" other people. Techniques that are raiding accounts popularity at this time is through phishing is assigned through Yahoo Messenger.

Phishing is basically the message, but essentially ordinary court to the victim to click a specific site address. Most often is the message that your friend's new upload photos. Some of the addresses at this time mostly used, among other picz.com www.holiday-or summer-picz.com. However, the carrier can make spam a new address at any time and pass it on.

Addresses had been prepared to entice the victim so that the voluntary and without realizing the wealth in this case following your Yahoo password. Never enter your Yahoo Email and Password for your YM account you will be immediately known.

Yahoo Account once you know, technically, a lot of dangerous things that can be done without you. Such as sending phishing, SPAM, email scandal to change the data owner's account. Especially if you have access to valuable account in your YM as administrator mailinglist with a large number of members, products, accounts and other Yahoo.



A number of sites or traps forgery is easily identified and it is not new. Firefox browser even has features to provide a warning for sites with forgery red icon and the police. Unfortunately, Internet Explorer and Safari do not have this feature. So, the only way avoid exposure suit should not enter your Yahoo password to other sites.

Social engineering

All the misguided people at risk to go to snare it. Can be inaccurate because the suspect visited the site the site is owned by Yahoo. However, often the main reason is because upon the recipient thinks the message is sent that you have contacts in Yahoo Messenger.

Of course, you believe that your friend may not harm you with the rope to your phishing site. So if you receive a message like the above, do not riot prior to your friend. This is social engineering which used actors.

The problem, YM message is apparently not sent by your friend, but because Yahoo Account has been known and used to send messages to all contacts lead to click a link that opens a web page that asks for Yahoo Mail and password.

The only way to remove this "spam" is immediately ask your friends to replace Yahoo Password. Without change, spam messages will be sent to hold everywhere. It is also important to check carefully whether the data support the account in accordance with still Yahoo himself. If it is still appropriate, may be Yahoo account is still safe to use.

But if you was-was, to change your Yahoo account with the new and do not forget to complete your Yahoo login with the "Sign in Seal" and always look at the Yahoo address each time you enter a username and password.

Legal but underhanded

Did your Yahoo account takeovers was legal, perpetrators are legitimate companies that are domiciled in Panama. This means the legal owner of a Yahoo account is trapped by phishing can not sue.

Apparently TP Ltd, a company which is the mastermind of all this, using the underhand social weaknesses of the Internet users. The author describes the site Terms and Conditions which states that our Yahoo account allows companies to use your account to send ads via either email or through instant messenger.

That is not less interesting, game companies have online internet popular in Indonesia with hundreds of thousands of members using the service users appeared to TP Ltd. The company is using the services to distribute game ad

source: tekno.kompas.com