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The password is copied when it is entered to log on to a website by a malicious program called a keylogger, or an HTTP cookie allowing account access is stolen from a vulnerable computer's browser. If passwords are stored electronically, it may be possible to hack them if the device or program used is insecure.
Even if you recognize all the log-ins on your account, you should give Facebook a heads-up that something is going on with your account. Here’s how: Navigate to the “Password and Security” page.
Credential stuffing is a type of cyberattack in which the attacker collects stolen account credentials, typically consisting of lists of usernames or email addresses and the corresponding passwords (often from a data breach), and then uses the credentials to gain unauthorized access to user accounts on other systems through large-scale automated login requests directed against a web ...
Account pre-hijacking attacks are a class of security exploit related to online services.They involve anticipating a user signing up for an online service and signing up to the service in their name, and then taking over their account when they attempt to register it themselves.
An example of an IDN homograph attack; the Latin letters "e" and "a" are replaced with the Cyrillic letters "е" and "а".The internationalized domain name (IDN) homograph attack (sometimes written as homoglyph attack) is a method used by malicious parties to deceive computer users about what remote system they are communicating with, by exploiting the fact that many different characters look ...
In late 2017, Facebook systematically disabled accounts operated by North Koreans in response to that government's use of state-sponsored malware attacks. Microsoft did similar actions. The North Korean government had attracted widespread condemnation in the U.S. and elsewhere for its alleged proliferation of the "WannaCry" malware .
In August 2007 the code used to generate Facebook's home and search page as visitors browse the site was accidentally made public. [6] [7] A configuration problem on a Facebook server caused the PHP code to be displayed instead of the web page the code should have created, raising concerns about how secure private data on the site was.
What this means is that if your account is compromised (for any reason), this will be treated as you not having used a sufficiently strong password. Avoid linking to external sites from your user page and user talk pages, since this reveals a connection that can be used in an attempt to take over your Wikipedia user account.