Spam Attack On Facebook, Spammers Identified!

In what could be #-Link-Snipped-# as the one of the biggest security breaches ever, a spam attack on Facebook distributed over a considerable extent posted graphic images that had pornographic and violent content on the users' profile and their news-feed. This makes us question Facebook's vulnerability to hackers. The accounts that have been held accountable for the attacks will be shut down.

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Facebook is approaching a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission regarding the privacy of the users' data. Facebook believes that users were in some manner deceived into reproducing malicious codes in their browser bars. Hackers then could easily access their profiles and post anything they liked, and all of the user’s Facebook friends could see whatever content they had posted. This may somehow affect the image of the user in his circles, without the user being aware of it. Senior threat researcher at Trend Micro Inc., Paul Ferguson, believes that Facebook and other Web 2.0 sites are easily targeted as they attract content from the outside sources to a great extent.

The latest news is that those involved in this attack have been identified and Facebook is taking adequate measures to make sure such a thing is not repeated in the future. A statement has been issued after images having pornographic and violent contents, as well as fake Justin Bieber photos started making rounds in some news-feeds of users. If the action had not been quickly expedited, Facebook could have lost over 80 million of its regular users, while some users stated that keeping all the recent attacks in mind, they may eventually break-up with Facebook.