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Worm Uses Google To Target Facebook

A malicious program that sprang up on Facebook.com in late July has surfaced again, this time using Google's Web sites to sneak around security filters

By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)

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"I believe that you will see more of this stuff happening," said Petko Petkov, a security researcher with GNUCitizen.

With corporate Intranets adopting new technologies such as blogging and Wikis, Petkov thinks corporate targets may soon be ripe for attack. "If you have a worm inside a corporation that works the same way as the worm on Facebook, you have a huge problem."

Other stories by Robert McMillan

Copyright 2009 IDG News Service, International Data Group Inc. All rights reserved.

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