The Killer Facebook Application Arrives and it Ain't Pretty

According to IDG News Serivce, “A team of researchers have built a malicious Facebook” application. We’ve heard this before it and now we’ll here it again. Facebook applications can be used to “dupe large numbers of users into downloading a seemingly harmless application that actually performs a clandestine attack that can cripple a Web site.

Wait, can’t any website do the exact same thing? Yes it can! These researchers came up with a new way of attacking their victims though.

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