Facebook partners with Sophos to identify potentially malicious posts
[Johannesburg, 26 April 2012] -
IT security and data protection company, Sophos, has announced a partnership with Facebook to help protect users from links that lead to malware or malicious sites.Facebook will use the Web site reputation service provided by SophosLabs, Sophos' global network of research centres, along with its own security measures to help assess whether a largely distributed link is malicious.When Facebook users click a link, Facebook consults its database of malicious URLs to check the status of the link. Starting today, SophosLabs will be feeding malicious URL intelligence into this database. Facebook will inform Facebook users if the link they clicked on is malicious, and users will be sent to a page that offers the choice to continue at their own risk, return to the previous screen, or obtain more information on why the link was flagged as suspicious.
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