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 Send to email | Researchers Dupe 1,000 Facebook Users Into Downloading Malicious App in General |  By Silicon
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Thinking of downloading a cool Facebook app that uploads a new picture of the day from National Geographic? Don't.
The app, 'NG Photo Of The Day' is part of an experiment conducted by researchers in Singapore and Greece to demonstrate how easy it is to distribute harmful applications within Facebook, PC World reports.
The researchers uploaded the app in January (there's another, much larger National Geographic photo of the day app, which is safe), and within the program planted a bug that would bombard a chosen Web site (they set up a dummy site to monitor the traffic) with a denial-of-service attack when the picture of the day was downloaded.
But that's just the beginning: researchers said the app could just as easily gather up personal details and post them on a remote server, and various other nefarious activities.
The researchers didn't advertise or promote the app, but 1,000 people still gave it a whirl, and it's still up on Facebook. Within the grand scheme of things, that's a tiny percentage of 100 million-member Facebook community, but its a reminder that users need to be careful about what they're downloading, and Facebook needs to be more diligent about rooting out wrongdoing among their developers.
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| Security flaw found in T-Mobile?s G1 Android phone |  A group of security researchers uncovered a security flaw in the web browser portion of Android that runs on the G1. According to researcher, Charles A. Miller the flaw could be exploited when a G1 user is tricked into visiting a malicious Web site. Malicious code on the website could then use this exploit to [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 25-Oct-2008 by Kelly Hodgkins in AndroidHTCT-Mobilesecurity flaw
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| Facebook Harnesses Users’ Translation Skills for Free | | Facebook is getting a global boost from users around the world, who are translating its visible framework into nearly two dozen languages for free. The move is generating mounting criticism online, where some users question whether amateurs can produce good translations.
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