static.ak.fbcdn.net phishing – Browsers like Google Chrome, Firefox and Safari are reporting a Facebook phishing warning for static.ak.fbcdn.net when users try to login at Facebook.com.
The static.ak.fbcdn.net phishing warning is triggered by a broken advertisement link related to the new Facebook Connect service and Facebook is working to correct the problem.
The static.ak.fbcdn.net website is owned by Facebook and is used to serve up parsed data and application-related Ref handles when a user arrives at Facebook.com, so there is no real phishing threat.
Facebook Developer Forums were abuzz this morning with talk about the false phishing warnings with administrators acknowledging that fbcdn.net was listed as a phishing site.
While this one was definitely a false alarm, with all the phishing scams targeting Facebook users, you can’t be too careful when logging in on a site your browser says is suspicious.
And that’s the latest news on static.ak.fbcdn.net phishing.
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December 10th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
My Pc. is comming up with PI numbers on facebook. 96.17.171.115,80 and 192.168.1.2,1810
July 27th, 2009 at 10:50 am
I see that the date of this article is from Dec 2008 but Its happening to me today, what’s wrong?
August 19th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Facebook is a phishing site – albeit one that conforms to US law. Nevertheless, what they do is highly unethical.
October 20th, 2009 at 2:30 am
And happening to me today, too. (Using Chrome as my browser.) How long will it take to correct it, I only wonder….
October 20th, 2009 at 6:03 am
today is October 20 and i constantly get static.ak.fbcdn.net phising warning.. what can i do to correct it?
October 20th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
same thing here
October 20th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
i cant see any of my friends or even my profile pictures…how can i remove that blocking
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:25 am
I can barely even get ON to the so-called Facebook. All I get is text along the left-hand side of the page, and it takes FOREVER to load the site.
I think I may actually have something worse going on…