Facebook's New Spam

Information Technology is one of the areas that experienced with the great development and included that very dynamic industry. What's a popular today, in a few years will drowned. For example, if the first way relies on the keyboard to enter data only, then use the mouse develops and now include data rely on touch of a finger. This also occurs in spam messages circulating. For the mobile users in Indonesia itself in relation to spam message is a bit different, because the principle "sender takes all" that means the operator which sends an SMS that will get 100% revenue from the SMS sent. As a result the operators competing to provide free SMS to subscribers. At first glance it seems kind as to pay two thousand dollars only can send thousands of SMS, but the actual practice carried out by these operators cause SMS Spam flooding misused by companies Tele Marketing to market Credit Cards, Unsecured Loans and other promotions.

Ridiculous it, authority (BRTI) did not work asked telecommunications companies to change the system "sender takes all" that the source of the problem, but the facts, Bank of Indonesia take action against of the Banks in Indonesia who sender SPAM SMS turned out to be done by outsourced workers that make mobile users become target SPAM. Though easily later the spammers will turn to offer insurance, multi level marketing or other business services. So mobile users in Indonesia must get ready to be fed up becomes the victim receives an spam message because the system "takes all this sender. "

Similarly things that happen in the domain of Internet spam, in the last 10 years the users email mess around with the flood of spam into the their email accounts and spam email coming into your email account sometimes even several times the amount of spam email that was not so anti-spam application become mandatory for the administrator application mailserver. The question is: What is "suffering" this is final and spam we are facing now only in SMS and email? Within the last few days we get the answer, spam was not just appear in the SMS and Email, but the application of the most famous highway in the worldwide, Facebook is now starting the target of spammers. And this time the threat is not playing games as the victim reaches thousands of Facebook users. Best of spam from Facebook is even utilize Apps (Facebook Application) but unlike other malicious Apps that never circulated in which the user up "must" give allow for an application to run on his Facebook account, so this time by just simply clicking links that given and get the message to wait, then this is enough to account up the infected and directly spread the message contains a link applications up to the chat contacts and simultaneously posting on the profile.

According Vaksincom testing, most likely this gap of utilizing the Java programming language in the Apps or Facebook Chat Apps that apparently has a weakness that even though the application is not installed properly already to provide access to the application to do a post and send messages at Chat FB . The good news for users of Internet Explorer is because of the error in the script that makes it malicious applications can not running on Internet Explorer users perfectly safe from this exploit, in contrast to FireFox and Chrome users that can seamlessly run the application. According Vaksincom observation, until Tuesday, on March 8, 2011 has been a lot of these malicious applications that disabled by Facebook, although still there are dozens of applications that escaped from deactivation and creator of these malicious apps easily add apps with another name so that this threat is still real and needs to be cautious. Because this application running in the browser and the server up and does not depend on Operating System then Facebook users that using any Operating System must be vigilant and not be tempted to click on the link provided even from your Facebook friends.