Study: MyPageKeeper App Flags 97 Percent of Social Malware
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have created a Facebook application called MyPageKeeper to stop hackers from hijacking pages and posting spammy links. In a four-month study, they found that the app caught 97 percent of the social malware that turned up during the experiment.
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have created a Facebook application called MyPageKeeper to stop hackers from hijacking pages and posting spammy links. In a four-month study, they found that the app caught 97 percent of the social malware that turned up during the experiment.
Leading the study were UCR professors Michalis Faloutsos and Harsha V. Madhyastha; and Ph.D. students Md Sazzadur Rahman and Ting-Kai Huang.
From June to October 2011, the team of engineering professors and graduate students sorted through 40 million posts from 12,000 people who had installed MyPageKeeper to see how well the app was working. During
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