Facebook, the world's largest social network, has experienced unprecedented growth in recent years. The site has a user base of over 800 million people - an impressive feat, considering all things. Unfortunately, as the population's social network has grown, and the number of opportunistic fraud. Facebook has quickly filled with malicious links that bring people to download malware to your computer. The company has tried to put an end to these scams, but so far been unsuccessful. Now that she sought help from Websense, a company specializing in Web-filtering software.
With this new alliance will Facebook be able to third parties to better protect users are spam malicious URLs so often in the social networking site.
The company had already made an attempt earlier this year by partnering with the Web of Trust (WOT), but the trend of fraud "on ways to find these security measures are taken quickly, this approach inadequate. WOT works on a black list - a pretty decent, but not with the speed with which these scammers change their URL overcome.
With Websense, but the process is complete. First, if a user clicks a link, the URL is automatically forwarded to Websense.
Websense ThreatSeeker then much cloud, its platform to the latest online threats to identify in real time. Websense believes that the link is safe, it will automatically be allowed the user to the site in the URL to load. However, if the URL is categorized as suspicious of Websense, a warning informing the user that the link is clicked can be dangerous. Users can choose between "more", completely ignoring the warning, or simply to return to the previous page.
The good news is that the cloud actually ThreatSeeker can tell if a site is trustworthy, even if it is brand new. So even if the fraudsters can on new ports for malicious content, which does not spread it on Facebook, create long recognized Websense continue.
Websense provides another safeguard, in addition to the defenses of Facebook and WOT. The partnership will have a huge impact in the fight against the problem of fraud that have become commonplace in the social networking site that makes the whole experience much safer for Facebook users, even those who are not exactly equipped with the technology.
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