WARNING: Facebook Events Become Security Frontier
Beware of Facebook invitations coming from strangers, as the events feature has become the newest security battlefront on the social network.
Facebook continues to do a marvelous job reining in spam, but just like every other security problem online, as soon as one fire is extinguished, another one flares up. So the latest frontier for rogue applications appears to be the event feature on the social network.
Our friends at Sophos have pointed out the advent of bogus events targeting up to 10 million users at a time. We recognize that the relative novelty gives the spammers a temporary edge, so it’s just a matter of time before Facebook catches up with this new type of scam and eradicates it from the site the way others have been quashed.
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