Most of us know that Facebook Connect was officially opened for all developers exactly one year ago. Lots of buzz had been created by Facebook since its luanch. Facebook’s identity service is in the lead with more than 350 million registered users at present.
The buzz continues with the recent one being MySpace’s roumered adoption of Facebook Connect . If things go well, then we can expect MySpace churning out a number of Connect features by early 2010.
Coming right at the heels of Yahoo announcing Facebook Connect implementation by early 2010, the extend of MySpace’s Facebook Connect integration isn’t known yet, but we can expect MySpace music and video footage being shared on Facebook.
Many were surprised when Yahoo announced Facebook Connect integration, but this move by MySpace is even more surprising taking into the account that Facebook and MySpace have been big rivals in the past.
Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, told The Telegraph: “Facebook is focussing on building the best technology which helps people share content, while at MySpace they are focussing on more a content-led strategy. We would like to have their content, as we already do with many other sites, shared across our network because it is good for our users.
Owen Van Natta, MySpace’s chief executive, formerly Facebook’s chief revenue officer, also confirmed the two companies are in talks.
Websense Security Labs ThreatSeeker Network has discovered that the KoobFace malware campaign is now using a Christmas theme. This is not the first time the Koobface worm has infected social newtork sites.
The Koobface website offors a video posted by ‘SantA’ with the usual ruse of requiring a codec to watch the video is used to encourage the user to install and run a setup file. This file is currently detected by 16 out of 41 products, according to Virus Total.
The user on the compromised facebook page is presented with alink to a compromised site in switzerland. The user is redirected to one of the several Koobface websites through a malicious flash video file hosted on the compromised site.
If the user runs the infected file, the worm will automatically login to their Facebook, MySpace, and several other social networking sites and send messages to all their friends.
So be wary of this new worm with a Christmas theme, least it doesn’t make you and your pc merry this Christmas.
More than 3,500 registered sex offenders in New York have been kicked from social-networking sites, Facebook and MySpace. This is the first time that the new e-Stop (Electronic Security and Targeting of Online Predators) act of 2008 has actually been used.
Under the state’s e-STOP Act, registered offenders are required to register their emails and other online identifiers with the state so that their online activities can be monitored. Sex offenders have 10 days to notify the state after creating new online profiles or face prosecution for a new felony.
It will be good to see more and more of these pervs who prey on the naive and defenceless cyberspace kids be rounded up and put aside.
There has been a lot of incidents regarding social networking sites lately and also a few recent calls for Facebook to actively do some background-check of its users, which is obviously almost impossible. But it’s nice to see the New York law enforcers taking this proactive stance on the issue of online prevs.
This act will be more effective if the other States and countries adopts it. Also hoping that more social-networking sites come forward to help the law enforcers in their quest to protect the minors.
Source [ NY dailynews]
. Are you thinking what i am thinking??