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Why a partnership with Websense, Facebook is far from the protection of the users.



Earlier this week, Facebook announced a partnership with Websense to help users against malicious outbound connections.
Security experts have weighed on the subject, while a step in the right direction, it is not sufficient to protect the platform.

Websense collaboration provides users with an outstanding protection to that which falls outside the scope of the Facebook links to external sites by scanning. The problem is what happens internally at Facebook. After the World Wide Web, "Facebook has more to do to clean your own house."

As we have repeatedly warned in the past, Facebook is full of malicious software that can be used for users from spam and fraud. We have seen, these applications work all kinds of chaos on Facebook. The most innocuous behavior of the poll fraud

and annoying marketing gimmicks, while others are used for malware to unsuspecting users provide. There is very little oversight by the developers of Facebook applications from third-party. There is no formal application for review, as it is in the App Store. The problem is so widespread that one of our security products is the most popular:

How to protect your account at Facebook Malware James Arlen, an independent security consultant in Toronto summarizes. "Ironically, [Facebook] seem to look outward, as if everything is lily white on the inside, to be honest, until you clean your own house, you have to close (safety) ".

The Rafal, a security company and the cloud of strategy for HP is that the partnership with Websense, "treating the symptoms not the cause." "He throws a plaster on the problem."

 

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