'Clickjacking' worm hits Facebook

A vulnerability on Facebook forced hundreds of thousands of users to endorse a series of Web pages over the US holiday weekend, making the social networking site the latest venue for an attack known as clickjacking, says The Register.

The exploit works by presenting people with friend profiles that recommend - or "like" in Facebook parlance - links with titles including "LOL This girl gets OWNED after a POLICE OFFICER reads her STATUS MESSAGE".

Those who click on the link see a page that's blank except for the words: "Click here to continue." Clicking anywhere on the page automatically forces the person to add the link to his list of “likes”.

A court in Pakistan has ordered the authorities to restore the Facebook social networking site, reveals the BBC.

The court had ordered the blocking of the site after a petition was filed against a competition featuring caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.

The petition, filed by a lawyers' group called the Islamic Lawyers' Movement, said the contest was "blasphemous".

The Council of the European Union has given its support to the European Commission's Digital Agenda for Europe, and called on heads of member states to do all they can to help the policy succeed, writes Computing.co.uk.

The council, which forms part of the EU's legislature, said in a document released yesterday that governments must acknowledge the significance of the Digital Agenda for Europe and the "economic and social development" it can provide.

Member states and the European Commission should work together to find ways of ensuring "horizontal co-ordination between concerned institutions both at the EU and national level to improve the implementation of the Agenda for Europe", the document added.

Mac users downloading free screensavers and a video converter app from several popular download sites also got spyware that installs a back door, collects data, and sends encrypted information to remote servers, reports CNet.

The high-risk spyware, dubbed OSX/OpinionSpy, was being installed along with nearly 30 screensavers developed by a company called 7art and an app called MishInc FLV to MP3, according to a list compiled by security firm, Intego.

They were found on Softpedia, MacUpdate, and CNET-owned VersionTracker.