SECURITY BREACH : FACEBOOK HIT BY SPAMMERS
Cyber crime continues to shoot up as world’s Largest social networking site face book was hit by spammers ,thus this time malware designers made no mistake to hijack this site alone covering 1.5 million users ,thus exploiting Web 2.0 technologies to distribute spam.
According to Cluley a senior technology consultant for security vendor Sophos stated in his blog that spammers had used crook tactics by sponsoring advertisement on the site , breaching all the security .
These advertisements flagged the schemes, how to become quick rich,guide how to seduce a woman according to blog .
Barry Schnitt face book official confirmed to Internet news.com, that according to their investigation it was third party attack ,which was promoting spam deliberately.
Source : internetnews.com
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February 13th, 2009 at 12:16 am
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