Comments on: Google Chrome Claims Facebook May Be A Phishing Site (Update: Safari Too)

By: Jamilul Huq

Jamilul Huq — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:04:09 +0000

Recently we have been receiving messages mentioning ‘8th wonder’, which when we pursued, results in various personal information, transfers to Facebook, asks for permission to share info and then does nothing, but selects some others. Is it Phishing?!?

By: kendric

kendric — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:50:17 +0000

i just click proceed anyway

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Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:04:09 +0000

[...] you won’t be able to do that using Facebook, and not because it falsely claims it’s a phishing site this time. It won’t even let you open and edit files using Google’s own [...]

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Mon, 02 Feb 2009 03:06:27 +0000

[...] you won’t be able to do that using Facebook, and not because it falsely claims it’s a phishing site this time. It won’t even let you open and edit files using Google’s own [...]

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Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:20:39 +0000

[...] you won’t be able to do that using Facebook, and not because it falsely claims it’s a phishing site this time. It won’t even let you open and edit files using Google’s own [...]

By: Google Chrome Not Cool Enough For Google Docs, Facebook (If You’re Browsing Incognito)

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:05:48 +0000

[...] you won’t be able to do that using Facebook, and not because it falsely claims it’s a phishing site this time. It won’t even let you open and edit files using Google’s own [...]

By: lokepy

lokepy — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 23:47:16 +0000

i’m not sure if this is the right place to post this but i still can’t log onto facebook , comes up with static.fbcdn.net at the bottom of the page

By: Marah Marie

Marah Marie — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:20:05 +0000

Oh, that’s hilarious.

By: nono

nono — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:23:31 +0000

Yes. Safari definitely uses Google’s phishing domain DB, and I’d be surprised if Firefox didn’t as well. So it makes total sense that if this happened in one browser, it’d happen in all of them.

By: Daily Morsels « Politalking

Daily Morsels « Politalking — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:33:57 +0000

[...] Chrome identifies Facebook as possible phishing [...]

By: alexander alaric

alexander alaric — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:47:00 +0000

@Chris,

You bring up an interesting theory as to how and who reported FB as a phishing site and got it placed into the anti-phishing software’s databases.

Also, a good question is how many times does a site have to be reported before going into the database? Is there a human review?

Or can a competitor just go in and call someone a ‘phisher’ and mess up their business?

By: Brendan

Brendan — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:52:47 +0000

Chrome also told me that deviantArt was a phishing threat.

By: Facebook, Ads and Phishing. Bad Combo.

Facebook, Ads and Phishing. Bad Combo. — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:42:29 +0000

[...] users trying to access Facebook that the widely used social network may be a phishing site, reports TechCrunch and tons of people on Twitter. Throughout the course of the morning, more and more users found that [...]

By: pure acai

pure acai — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:08:16 +0000

lol stupid chrome

By: Steve Bomber

Steve Bomber — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:50:29 +0000

Update 6: Do your reporting before hitting the publish button.

By: nyCat

nyCat — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:44:50 +0000

Maybe MS also keep phishing site warning for google.

By: Chris McCorkle

Chris McCorkle — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:24:35 +0000

I consider them phishing sites as well!

By: Chris Lang

Chris Lang — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:10:51 +0000

It is not the browser’s fault not does it get credit. All phishing filters use a underlying database, browsers do not have the ability to see phishing sites.

Either the domain is green, or it comes up bad, the browser has a list, it checks it and then renders the site. No thinking, it is done by the parent database supplying the list.

Internet Explorer did not block Facebook’s fbcdn.net domain.

Chrome, Firefox and Safari all did.

Microsoft back Facebook and Facebook Connect.

Google has the Google Social Network supported by Friend Connect.

You call it, I ain’t going there…

By: Phy

Phy — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:03:04 +0000

yep, problem solved. i was surprised to see that message too.

By: Google Chrome Claims Facebook May Be A Phishing Site (Update: Safari Too)

Google Chrome Claims Facebook May Be A Phishing Site (Update: Safari Too) — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:58:11 +0000

[...] Google Chrome Claims Facebook May Be A Phishing Site (Update: Safari Too). [...]

By: Justen

Justen — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:50:46 +0000

Coincidentally, a friend was using Chrome when he visited my website and told me about this. Firefox did not give me this warning. I traced it to a facebook icon I used for content recommendation to Facebook. This is the link.

http://static.a...con.gif?2:26981

I just host on my server instead. The warning went away.

By: Chris Lang

Chris Lang — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:30:45 +0000

Actually it goes more like this:

Facebook is the domain you are visiting, even when logging into a site that uses Facebook connect. That is the domain in the address bar but not the site you are sending requests to.

However the domain in the blocking is the domain Facebook uses to run code and deliver back things like the friends of someone logged into a Facebook Connect enabled site.

Hence, the visitor seem to be one site, but are sending back code from another. That is indicative of a phishing site.

Server side redirects from a form throw errors and false positives to anti virus browser plug-ins too. That is what got me when Trend Micro blocked my site.

If you do not find out about this immediately you never know this has happend, your business online just stops. Then the really bad things happen when you send to your email lists. Your own subscribers see the phishing warning, then they click the spam button on you.

By: James

James — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:14:05 +0000

Last night when I logged in and clicked on a link in facebook to see a request I had, Safari warned me that Google listed it as a phishing site. Freaked me out and I tried to look for a way to submit something to Facebook but that would have taken some hard work since it’s damn near impossible.

By: » Google Chrome sospetta Facebook di phishing BestNotizie

» Google Chrome sospetta Facebook di phishing BestNotizie — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:11:49 +0000

[...] il messaggio appariva accedendo con Google Chrome. Poi, leggendo i commenti alla notizia apparsa su TechCrunch, pare che sia successo anche agli utilizzatori di Safari e [...]

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:33:29 +0000

As of this week I have had all sorts of sites requiring an Exception in Firefox. Including my own banking website which I use on a weekly basis.