{"id":14348,"date":"2010-07-28T23:31:47","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T18:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/?p=14348"},"modified":"2020-03-30T14:29:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T08:59:51","slug":"rogue-facebook-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2010\/07\/rogue-facebook-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware of Rogue Facebook Apps [Video]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rogue Facebook apps <\/strong>are targeting innocent Facebook users to disclose personal information to provide access to view shocking videos. Since this so called &#8216;Facebook worm&#8217; changes the status page of affected Facebook users, it is spreading virally across Facebook. So beware of Facebook scams.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t click untrusted links<\/strong> on Facebook status messages on your friends Wall. Graham Cluley from Sophos has created a cool video explaining how these Facebook apps work to steal your Facebook personal details, and how you can completely remove them.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/_uFa3P0sLA4<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t click on any link on Facebook you don&#8217;t trust. And if any Facebook app asks for authorization to perform various tasks, allow only if you absolutely trust the app to properly use your data.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook is great for social networking, but be aware of how Facebook scams and bad Facebook apps work. Join our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/quickonlinetips\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook page<\/a> to stay updated about Facebook scams and share this with your friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rogue Facebook apps are targeting innocent Facebook users to disclose personal information to provide access to view shocking videos. Since&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,111],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-14348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-social-media","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}