partner and Websense Facebook unite to fight malware

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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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partner and Websense Facebook unite to fight malware

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

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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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