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Socialbot Network finds it easy to harvest data from Facebook users

01
Nov
2011

Researchers have claimed that Facebook’s inbuilt security systems are “not effective enough” at stopping automated identity theft, after running a large-scale infiltration of the network using Socialbots. In their paper, “The Socialbot Network: When Bots Socialise for Fame and Money”, researchers from the University of British Columbia describe how they managed to collect private data […]

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Facebook: Zombie Bot Invasion

31
Oct
2011

Here’s a possibility that could make your Halloween extra creepy: a Zombie Invasion. Not the brains-eating, rotting-corpse kind, mind you. I’m talking about a zombie bot invasion on Facebook, the world’s largest social network. The technology for such a thing is already available today. In fact, that hot chick adding you up on Facebook – […]

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