REPORT: Rate Of Security Threats Doubled In Year
Spamming via social networks has doubled over the past year, according to the security vendor Sophos in a new study. Facebook's official stance is that spam has dropped on the site.
Spamming via social networks has doubled over the past year, according to the security vendor Sophos. However, this comes from a study that doesn’t break out Facebook specific statistics.
Of course, pointing out threats is standard marketing practice for most security vendors, and the increased spam may well be wending its way through sites other than Facebook. That jibes with the company’s official response to this report, which a spokesperson emailed to us:
As a result of our efforts, the data we have on interactions of more than 500 million people using Facebook shows that spam, malware and other attacks have decreased in their effectiveness — the opposite conclusion reached by a security vendor.
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