TimmyHFacebook Spam – The end of a good thing
September 22nd 2008 02:00
The smooth sailing could be coming to an abrupt end, rapidly. Facebook has been suffering in recent weeks from an aggressive amount of Spam clogging up its system. While the management suggests that the situation is under control, anecdotal evidence tells a different story.
“Over the past few days, we have received reports from users of spam and phishing attacks,” the company said in a statement. “We have also detected and contained a worm. We are investigating every report, removing false content, blocking bogus links and addressing the concerns of our users. These efforts have limited the affected users to a small percentage of those on Facebook.”
Spam is shit. There’s no two ways around it. But if there is a positive to come out of this recent news it’s that such an occurrence in inherently rare on Facebook. Over 100 million members Worldwide and up until now the 4 years have been smooth sailing for users.
Some of you have no doubt read about my intense hatred of the New Facebook. In fact, since it was opened up, Facebook has lost all the appeal that it once held for me. But until a new social network starts that is willing to stick to its University audience we’re going to have to put up with beast that we have pushed on the world.
Facebook isn't the only one getting hit by this, the New York Times has reported that the attacks seem to be generated by something called Koobface, "an Internet worm that began targeting Facebook and MySpace users in late July. Since then, Internet security firm Kaspersky Lab has identified about 27 variants of Koobface ."
Facebook's approach to battling the spam by deactivating links so that users can't harm themselves by heading to nefarious sites seems to be working, so far. But can it last forever? And what information will a potential hacker get access to?
Terrifying isn’t it?
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“Over the past few days, we have received reports from users of spam and phishing attacks,” the company said in a statement. “We have also detected and contained a worm. We are investigating every report, removing false content, blocking bogus links and addressing the concerns of our users. These efforts have limited the affected users to a small percentage of those on Facebook.”
Spam is shit. There’s no two ways around it. But if there is a positive to come out of this recent news it’s that such an occurrence in inherently rare on Facebook. Over 100 million members Worldwide and up until now the 4 years have been smooth sailing for users.
Some of you have no doubt read about my intense hatred of the New Facebook. In fact, since it was opened up, Facebook has lost all the appeal that it once held for me. But until a new social network starts that is willing to stick to its University audience we’re going to have to put up with beast that we have pushed on the world.
Facebook isn't the only one getting hit by this, the New York Times has reported that the attacks seem to be generated by something called Koobface, "an Internet worm that began targeting Facebook and MySpace users in late July. Since then, Internet security firm Kaspersky Lab has identified about 27 variants of Koobface ."
Facebook's approach to battling the spam by deactivating links so that users can't harm themselves by heading to nefarious sites seems to be working, so far. But can it last forever? And what information will a potential hacker get access to?
Terrifying isn’t it?
Really Long Link
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