Facebook Porn Means Opportunity For Security Firms

If you're an online security firm, when opportunity knocks in the form of violent and pornographic images flooding Facebook, responding quickly is key.

When opportunity knocks, answer the door. So if you’re an online security firm, when opportunity knocks in the form of violent and pornographic images flooding Facebook, responding quickly is key.

One company did just that, promoting Zscaler Likejacking Prevention, which it released in September, and offering advice from Senior Security Researcher Mike Geide.

Zscaler Likejacking Prevention is available as a plug-in for Firefox, Chrome, and Safari, and it combats likejacking, in which attackers attempt to exploit Facebook members’ usage of the like button by tricking them into clicking hidden like buttons and unintentionally liking pages or products, which, in turn, appear on their friends’ newsfeeds and spread virally.

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