{"id":784,"date":"2011-11-16T23:29:48","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T05:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sebersole.wordpress.com\/?p=784"},"modified":"2011-11-16T23:29:48","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T05:29:48","slug":"facebook-spammed-with-explicit-and-violent-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/facebook-spammed-with-explicit-and-violent-images\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook spammed with explicit and violent images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/cyber-attack.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-787\" title=\"cyber-attack\" src=\"http:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/cyber-attack.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/cyber-attack.jpg 500w, https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/cyber-attack-300x257.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Facebook, which has heretofore managed to maintain a family friendly reputation, suffered a setback earlier this week when explicit and violent images began to show up on the site. According to news reports, hackers were able to exploit a security weakness to spread images which included &#8220;hardcore porn; photoshopped images of celebrities, including teen pop star Justin Bieber, in sexual positions; &#8216;extreme violence;&#8217; and at least one image of an abused dog.&#8221; Images of this nature can be extremely disturbing and numerous victims of the scam have expressed outrage and intent to deactivate their accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook users whose accounts were hacked were unable to see the images that are being posted on their friends walls&#8230;even though the images appeared to be coming from their account activity. According to Facebook, &#8220;the spam attack all started with users being tricked into pasting and executing malicious JavaScript in their browser\u2019s URL bar.&#8221; Some are suggesting that the security flaw was limited to a particular browser&#8230;specifically Internet Explorer. In any case, one lesson to be learned is to not click on links from questionable sources, and never copy and paste code into your browser&#8217;s URL bar.<\/p>\n<p>Some suspected the hackivist group Anonymous who earlier had warned [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Q6crH8qmyZ8\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>] of a cyber-attack on Facebook for their policies which compromise users&#8217; privacy. However, as of today Anonymous has not taken credit for this event and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/blog\/facebook\/facebook-identifies-those-behind-coordinated-spam-attack\/5411\" target=\"_blank\">new post on ZDNet<\/a> claims that Facebook has identified the source of the attack.<\/p>\n<p>If you think your Facebook account has been compromised, here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/blog\/facebook\/facebook-virus-or-account-hacked-heres-how-to-fix-it\/5339\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a> to steps to take to try to restore order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook, which has heretofore managed to maintain a family friendly reputation, suffered a setback earlier this week when explicit and violent images began to show up on the site. According to news reports, hackers were able to exploit a security weakness to spread images which included &#8220;hardcore porn; photoshopped images of celebrities, including teen pop &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/facebook-spammed-with-explicit-and-violent-images\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Facebook spammed with explicit and violent images&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interactive-media","category-new-media","category-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}