You hate it when you or your friends gets duped into clicking on a
malicious link in Facebook. Scandalous links you don’t want to see
posted on your wall for everyone to see. Unfortunately, there are still a
lot of users who are oblivious to these types of malware distribution.
To protect its users from against malicious sites and malware,
Facebook will support integration of the Trend Micro™ Smart Protection
Network™ infrastructure, which uses cloud technology, threat
correlation, and a global network of threat intelligence sensors to
proactively stop malware and web threats before they reach the computer.
Basically it will supposedly block malicious links from appearing on
the site.
When a Facebook user, on a Mac, PC or mobile device, clicks on links
that have been passed to them or posted on their friend’s wall, that
link will automatically (and behind the scenes) be first analysed by
Trend Micro’s Smart Protection Network which will perform a real-time
analysis of that URL and the content of that link to determine whether
it’s safe or not. If that link is deemed unsafe, Trend Micro will warn
the user that the link leads to malicious websites and malware sites.
Now incorporated within Facebook’s database of external malicious URL intelligence providers, the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network
infrastructure delivers advanced protection from the cloud, blocking
threats in real-time while processing more than 70 billion URL, email,
and file queries daily. Every day, Trend Micro blocks over 1.4 billion
threats and processes more than 300 million new URLs.
“Now that Facebook is a primary platform for communication, whether
you’re nine or ninety-nine, it’s fast becoming a favorite target for
cybercriminals,” said Myla Pilao, Director, Core Technology Marketing,
Trend Micro. “This is why we’re thrilled to partner with Facebook to
offer an additional layer of protection to users so they don’t have to
think twice when interacting with friends and uploading pictures from
their weekend.”
“We are thrilled to be incorporating Trend Micro’s Smart Protection
Network to Facebook’s existing database of malicious URLs, and the
opportunity to offer Trend Micro software to our users,” said Joe
Sullivan, chief security officer at Facebook. “This partnership will
better enable us to protect the people who use our service, no matter
where they are in the web.”
