Facebook halts rogue app, MySpace plugs hole
Facebook halts rogue app, MySpace plugs hole
Just in time for the weekend, social networks Facebook and MySpace were dealing with several new security issues on Friday that could expose personal information and communications from friends.Facebook said it had removed a new rogue application that was spamming users and exposing their information. Before it was halted, the application sent messages claiming that a friend had reported the recipient for violating Facebook’s terms of service and offered a link to click to find out more information.
Users who clicked on the link were providing the app access to their profile and personal information as well as unknowingly forwarding the message on to everyone in their Facebook contact list, according to Graham Cluley’s blog for Sophos.
“Our team disabled this application for violating the Facebook Developer Terms of Service,” Facebook spokesman Simon Axten said in an e-mail. “Some additional versions of it have sprung up, and we’ve disabled these as well. We’re actively monitoring the site for others and are working to block the application completely.”
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