by Laura Burnip, The Scottish Sun (excerpt)

A NEW craze sweeping Facebook could actually pose a huge security risk, experts have warned.

People have been sharing lists of the top 10 best concerts they’ve ever been to, including one which is a lie, encouraging pals to guess.

But now online security experts have warned you could be secretly giving hackers clues to your passwords and answers to security questions.

[…] Digital analyst Brian Solis suggested the game could even be a form of “quasi-phishing” and said hackers often use “social engineering” to get sensitive information out of victims without them realising.

He wrote on LinkedIn: “In some cases, memes can be deceptively dangerous.

“Something as simple as, ‘what was your first concert you went to?’ can lead to compromise though human hacking.

“Social engineering is the art of manipulating people out of confidential information aka secrets.

“Hackers use this technique to convert secrets into access.

“In this case, asking about bands could be a quasi phishing scam.”

It comes as experts warned against a Gmail phishing scam so “convincing” it has duped even IT experts into handing hackers their passwords.

And even Google and Facebook have admitted they were conned out of an alleged £77million in a phishing scam.