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Researchers Build Malicious Facebook App

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the and-the-crowd-goes-wild dept.

narramissic writes "Back in January, a team of researchers uploaded a malicious program to Facebook to demonstrate the possible dangers of social networking applications. Called 'Photo of the Day,' the app serves up a new National Geographic photo daily, but every time it's clicked it sends a 600 K-byte HTTP request for images to a victim's Web site. Photo of the Day is still listed on Facebook, with its authorship attributed to Andreas Makridakis, one of the researchers. The application has 514 active users now, with several comments praising it. The study was published by the Foundation for Research and Technology in Heraklion, Greece, and the Institute for Infocomm Research in Singapore."

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  1. Mods on crack by goose-incarnated · · Score: -1, Troll

    Oh FCOL, who the fuck moderated this as troll - c'mon - play nicely here - over the last few days it seems that a metric fuckton of non-troll and/or non-flamebait posts have been modded most unfairly. Who the hell is getting modpoints these days?

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