Facebook Clickjacking' Awareness Campaign Launched

Security firm AVG is trying to educate university students about malware and subterfuge on social networking sites.

Security firm AVG has launched an online campaign to help university students combat Facebook status jacking.




Facebook status jacking, or clickjacking, sees profiles on the social network being fraudulently
access by cybercriminals that have stolen log-in credentials. The hackers then fake, and sometimes
even malicious, status messages.

According to AVG, students are the group most at risk of having their status jacked on social
networking sites such as Facebook. The security firm's claims are backed up by figures from Ofcom,
which revealed that just 15 percent of web users aged 16 to 24 take internet security seriously.
Furthermore, just nine percent are concerned about security.

Research by AVG revealed there are 19,491 malicious pages across the world's 50 most popular
social-networking sites. More than half, 11,701, of these appeared on Facebook, while video
sharing site YouTube has 7,163 of the compromised pages.

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The fact that we found almost 20,000 compromised web pages on the world's most popular social
networking sites should make social media users sit up up and take notice, said Tony Anscombe,
from AVG.

AVG hopes to educate students about the dangers of going onto social networks using unprotected
connections, and of the need to always log out of sites properly. Two videos about status jacking,
featuring comedienne Holly Burns and offering advice on securing social media profiles, are among
the materials that will be released over the course of the campaign.
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