October 14, 2009
Hacked Facebook applications reach out to exploit sites in Russia

Hi folks,

All the social networking sites have issues with calling out to exploit pages. Usually what happens is that someone’s website gets hacked, and because they link to it from their MySpace or Facebook page, their contacts and friends sometimes get drawn to the attack sites. This is quite common, and we’ll write about it soon, but today’s story is a little different, in that these seem to be actual Facebook applications that have been hacked. (Please note that the application developer(s) are innocent victims too, and did not intend for their games to be hacked.)

More information about:
http://thompson.blog.avg.com/2009/10/hacke...-in-russia.html

Free Security Tool Detects Malicious URLs On Twitter

Mike Sachoff
Staff Writer
2009-10-13

The popularity of embedding shortened URLs into Twitter, Digg and other social media sites is being threatened by hackers who use the anonymity of these URLs to hide malicious websites.
AVG Technologies has released a free tool called LinkScanner that can detect the presence of malicious web pages. LinkScanner works by testing the destination of each URL in real time and does not use blacklists that quickly become outdated.

"The problem with shortened links is that they usually don't bear any resemblance to the original URLs, which means that users don't always know what they're clicking," said Roger Thompson, chief research officer at AVG Technologies.

More:
http://www.securitypronews.com/insiderrepo...sOnTwitter.html