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Facebook disables some legitimate apps while targeting malicious ones |
August 16, 2013
The use of tools to detect malicious patterns in apps led Facebook to temporarily disable some legitimate third-party apps that integrate with the social networking website, it said Thursday.On Tuesday, a number of people complained that their Facebook developer accounts and apps were unavailable.Facebook said it uses automated systems to identify and disable malicious apps, so as to protect its platform and users. These techniques identify a malicious pattern, find the apps that match that pattern, and then disable those apps."This normally results in thousands of malicious apps being disabled and improves our automated systems' ability to detect similar attacks in the future," Facebook employee Eugene Zarakhovsky wrote in a blog post.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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