facebook deploys a new system to detect and prevent spams

We hear about a new scam daily on facebook. All technology failed to prevent and stop spams on facebook. Facebook has also tie up with WOT to check a link to be malicious or not. Social netorking website has also deloyed a new mechanism to detect and block spams. New mechanism is designed to prevent clickjacking and rogue code pasting tricks commonly used in survey scams. 


Clickjacking is a type of attack that leverages a design flaw in the way browsers work which allows attackers to make a button invisible and overlap it with another harmless element by using legit web programming techniques. Read more in older post.
on facebook clickjacking is the main trick to spread spams. facebook person explains,"We have built defenses to detect clickjacking of the Facebook Like button and to block links to known clickjacking pages. Recently, we improved our systems to also alert people if we think they’re being tricked. Now, when we detect something suspicious, we’ll ask you to confirm your like before posting a story to your profile and your friends’ News Feeds," 


it also deployed a new mechanism to prevent XSS attacks. As the popularity is growing, the social networking website has to work a lot on the security issues.

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