Friday, November 4

A SocialBot that collects Facebook users details - Facebook Immune system fails

Beware of Facebook Security
Researchers at the University of British Columbia had 102 Socialbot configuration botmaster another social networking world Facebook experience. The researchers said that Facebook is not competent enough to protect identity theft Socialbot. Socialbot are automated programs that are programmed to automatically update status, send friend requests and messages reveal themselves as human beings, not robots.

The researchers used them, that they create fake accounts to online services and placement to break CAPTCHA image HotOrNot attractive profile. The robot also iheartquotes.com API for status updates. By creating a network Socialbot 8570 The researchers sent friend requests of which only 3055 people accepted the order, but a total of 1,085,785 accounts were infiltrated and private data users have been exposed. The experiment was conducted over a period of 8 weeks.

The work of the Red Socialbot could be explained as follows.
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The image above gives an idea when a friend has an account Socialbot then it would try to get into the accounts of friends of friends. This would be the "Mutual Friends" scenario, where the acceptance rate of 60%. By using the concept of robots gained 14,500 households with 46 500 e-mail addresses.

The researchers saw the need for improvement of the immune Facebook (FIS). At the end of the experiment eight weeks, they learned that only 20% of Socialbot accounts were blocked, just because some users flagged as spam and FIS. Finally, the researchers concluded the experiment with more than 250GB of user data, which indicates that the user about what you really want to threaten this kind of social networking sites your identity theft ,think ?

Do you know your account can also be compromised,so is this facebook so secure to play with.Be aware with your informations..

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