Careless Facebook profiling can lead to Identity Theft!

I feel that I should warn people the important necessity. You shouldn't be broadcasting your DOB and who your married to to your friends, just in case they get hacked.
Recent activity indicates that identity thieves are hacking into trustworthy profiles before selling on the login details to interested parties. This information is used by spammers to target legitimate users, posting misleading links on their "walls" – personalized message boards.
[Via Computing.Co.UK]
This deservese a little mind and a lot of understanding. By the spammers hacking into facebook accounts they have the chance to scam or spam people with links to possibly have a virus or trojan installer.
[ad#ad2-right]For example This one blog talks about the Virus:
Symantec's Norton Antivirus software has flagged this as a "high risk" Infostealer.Gampass virus. More info on this particular Trojan vius is here. (Note: Symantec warns the risk level is "low," since it originated in 2006, but this new Facebook email is a new iteration of the same virus.)
You might be inclined to click on this link because it's from a friend, but they did not intentionally send it to you -- and yes, their Facebook photo is attached, too.
[Via Sync-blog]

So what can you do to prevent Identity Theft and/or being scammed?
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- Roboform Review — A Password Manager that will help protect your passwords from key loggers and other such phishing sites. I strongly recommend it to to all who are security minded. (Never use the same password for all your accounts)
- Are you worried about your identity? -- This is good information in checking out sites that might be questionable. You can find out what type of site it by using your brains.
- Old Phish Become New again -- This is blog post about twitter and what may happen if you did give out your password. This is a good example of why you never should give out your password to third party websites.
- Twitter Spammers a getting more smarter -- This is also good example of what happens when you see become friends with someone who isn't real. You could be the next to be spammed and/or impersonated.
If you follow some common steps you to could prevent from being the victim or getting your Identitiy stolen. Some things to remember is Never tell anyone your Birthday the whole date like someone did on twitter a few days ago. It's nice that they are growing older but that gives people that much more information to use to steal your money or your idenitiy. Think before you give out any personal information like Age, Married, who your married to and anything that might be used to be able to access your account or your impersonate you. Remember only you can prevent from being scammed or lossing your identity, you wouldn't want to have to pay for your mistakes.






































































