A new antivirus app made for Facebook promises to help protect users of the giant social networking site from links that may lead to malware. F-Secure’s ShareSafe app scans links Facebook users send to – or receive from – friends, according to a release on the Finnish company’s website. “Facebook…
Facebook users offered app to scan for malicious links
Facebook users worried about the risk of clicking on malicious links while using the social networking service are being offered a new app web that filters friend from foe. Available as a live beta, ShareSafe from F-Secure uses “patent-pending” technology to scan links users plan to send to friends, or…
This Week’s @cyberlaw Links
As a new feature on the blog, I will try to regularly look at articles I tweeted the links for on Twitter (@cyberlaw), and discuss them briefly. Here are some I found interesting this week: HP Touchpad’s Fate Jonathan Ezor’s review of the HP Touchpad I linked to last week…
Study: Internet Explorer 9 Defends Best Against Malware Links
Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 offers Web surfers the best protection against social engineering malware, according to test results released today by an independent research firm. With its new Application Reputation feature, IE9 blocks malicious URLs more than 99 percent of the time, according to NSS Labs, of Carlsbad, Ca. Application…