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Facebook Filters URLs with Websense Technology A new partnership between Facebook and the security solutions provider Websense should further make sure that the social media network's members are properly protected against online threats. "Facebook cares deeply about protecting users from potentially malicious content on the internet," revealed Dan Rubins...	4 October 2011 05:21 GMT

Facebook Taps Web of Trust to Improve Its Malicious Link Detection Capability Facebook has partnered up with website reputation service Web of Trust (WOT) and will leverage its data to detect malicious URLs on the social network.Facebook already has its own URL filtering system which has been in use for a long time, although a lot of abusive links continue to make their way onto people's ...	13 May 2011 04:54 GMT

Twitter Starts Filtering Malicious URLs in Direct Messages Twitter has announced that URLs posted via Direct Messages will be screened by a new service, which blocks phishing and other attacks. The links are automatically shortened to a twt.tl form, so that they can be blocked at any point in the future.Twitter was recently confronted with a wave of highly successful phishin...	10 March 2010 10:38 GMT

Malicious URL Filtering on Twitter Twitter has started tapping into Google's Safe Browsing API in order to detect and block URLs pointing to malicious websites. Security experts applaud the initiative, even though the new feature is still buggy and can be easily bypassed. It looks like the flood of security threats that Twitter users have faced ...	4 August 2009 06:40 GMT

Download Forefront Threat Management Gateway Beta 3 Microsoft is at the end of the Beta phase with the development process of Forefront Threat Management Gateway. In this regard, the Redmond company has announced that it has produced and made available for download the Beta 3 build of the security product designed as the evolution of the Internet Security and Accelera...	10 June 2009 03:04 GMT

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