Gregg Keizer reports:
Security researchers today said Facebook’s new requirement that developers link legitimate accounts to their software won’t stop rogue applications from infecting its users with adware.
On Wednesday, Facebook announced that it will now demand that developers verify a Facebook account to create new apps on the service.
“We’re taking this step to preserve the integrity of Facebook Platform, ensuring that every application is associated with a valid and real Facebook account,” Niket Biswas, an engineer and technical project manager on the platform engineering team, said in an entry on the Facebook developer blog.
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“That’s not going to hurt [the criminals] one little bit,” said Roger Thompson, the chief technology officer for antivirus company AVG Technologies, in an instant message. Thompson has tracked several of the attacks against Facebook users launched by hackers on three consecutive weekends.
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