Thursday, May 31, 2012

Facebook thinks the security of its users



The problem of computer viruses worries more and more users, concerned that their data is stolen and used illegally. A problem that seems to interest and to which lately seems tobe sensitized even Facebook.
The social network has decided to make shipping safer for its users, making arrangements with the major antivirus vendors like Symantec, McAfee, Trend Micro,Sophos and Microsoft. Thanks to social networks so we will have free licenses up to ayear, depending on the product. The decision was made to educate users to the security of your PC and protect users from attack by the Social Spam


Currently, according to industry studies, the content of spam to be infected are only 4% of the data. Surely a small percentage compared to those of the mail which represent 90%.Very interesting initiative by the social created by Mark Zuckerberg, who is about to reach nearly one billion users who want to offer a new and interesting service. A theme, that of security, which in recent times seems to be very interested in the social that had recentlypointed out its appreciation to the Cispa (Cyber
​​-Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act) that could lead government agencies to have better data accuracy and reserved.
Through Joel Kaplan, vice president of public policy in the social, Facebook has defined the Cispa a useful tool to share more information about known and new attacks andthreats to both private individuals to government systems. The Marketplace Antivirus canbe considered the first step toward building a Facebook protection system against virus attacks digital



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