Facebook partners with Kaspersky to boost securityOctober 17, 2012 - 20:12 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Facebook has agreed a partnership with Kaspersky Lab that will tackle malicious threats on the world's largest social network, as well as offer free security software to users, Digital Spy said. Kaspersky will supply up-to-the-minute data about the latest software threats to Facebook. This will be used by the social network to protect its users from "inadvertently visiting malicious web pages". People are known to be more likely to share a link supplied by a friend, and cyber-criminals prey upon this trust to spread malicious URLs throughout a victim's personal contacts without their knowledge. But now, when Facebook users share or click on a link shared by their friends, it will instantly be compared against Kaspersky Lab's database of malicious web pages. If the link matches Facebook's list of known 'bad' URLs, then the user will be immediately notified and blocked from visiting the web page. This will prevent the user's personal information and computer from being put at risk, and stop the malicious link from spreading further. Kaspersky Lab's team of more than 800 anti-malware experts can analyse 125,000 threats every day. Facebook has agreed similar security partnerships with Avast, AVG, Avira, Panda, Total Defence, and Webroot, who will all provide software for its Antivirus Marketplace and add to its URL blacklist. Top stories Yerevan will host the 2024 edition of the World Congress On Information Technology (WCIT). Rustam Badasyan said due to the lack of such regulation, the state budget is deprived of VAT revenues. Krisp’s smart noise suppression tech silences ambient sounds and isolates your voice for calls. Gurgen Khachatryan claimed that the "illegalities have been taking place in 2020." Partner news Most popular in the section | Concept to complete Yerevan Cascade discussed at city hall A conceptual proposal to complete the Cascade complex in downtown Yerevan has been presented by Jean-Michel Wilmotte. Pashinyan visits flood-hit region Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Saturday, June 8 visited the disaster area in the Lori province. €3.5 mln EU grant to support justice reforms in Armenia The European Union has paid €3.5 mln grant to Armenia within a €11mln program on Support to Justice Reforms. Yerevan reacts to Baku’s proposal to see Minsk Group abolition Alen Simonyan has declared that Armenia is taking steps aimed at concluding a peace treaty with Azerbaijan. |