Looking To Hack Others' Facebook Accounts? Think Again!

Well, if hacking is your preferred hobby or your profession for that matter, and you go about hacking other peoples' Facebook accounts just for the sheer fun of it, well, you're in for a bitter surprise. A new scam is doing the rounds lately that tricks 'smart' hackers into revealing their own passwords as they look to fiddle around with others' accounts. Clearly, the tables have turned!

So, what is all the scam all about? Well, as is widely known fact in case of every human, we do somewhat prefer the easier way out of things. The scam in question makes use of this human nature by tricking you into believing that it could help you hack the Facebook accounts of others in just three simple steps. Easier said than done! All that you need to do is open Facebook in a web browser such as Google Chrome/Mozilla Firefox and open the profile of the person you plan to hack. Right clicking the mouse and selecting the 'Inspect Element' option will open the HTML editor of the concerned web page. Next step is typing a specific code into this editor to complete the hacking process (at least you're tricked into believing the same) when in reality its you who has been hacked. Your Facebook account password is now at the mercy of the scammers.

Talking about the technical aspects, the scam essentially exploits the Self-XSS (cross-site scripting) vulnerability of the web browsers (no way connected with Facebook). There has not been any security update released by Facebook as of now to counter the scam. The best that it has done is to put up a warning to those posting such codes into the HTML editor to refrain from doing so. Although, a security patch would be better for the obvious reasons!