Facebook Blocks Malicious Links Via Web Of Trust

Facebook has announced three different security improvements today, and we're covering each one separately.

Facebook has announced three different security improvements today, and we’re covering each one separately.

The social network has partnered with Web of Trust in order to filter out postings of insecure URLs — which we had up until today continued to see within posts by rogue applications and scamware on Facebook.

Like WOT says on its own blog today:

After nearly a year of meeting, talking about and testing WOT data, Facebook has integrated WOT’s community-powered reputation ratings into their security system to provide extra protection for their 500 million plus users.

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