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Facebook Moves To Block Spammers And Hackers

Apr 14, 2010
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PCWorld: Facebook Moves To Block Spammers And Hackers

The company is getting aggressive about shutting out hackers who try to spam the site’s millions of users. It claims that as many as 10% of its 1,200 employees are now focused on security.


“Facebook is employing aggressive legal means in combination with technical measures in order to stop hackers from abusing its social-networking site, according to its chief security officer, Max Kelly.

The company is constantly under fire from hackers trying to spam its 400 million registered users, harvest their data or run other scams.”

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