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Websense - Spammers Abusing Google?s Web 2.0 services

by Marianna Schmudlach Oct 3, 2008 3:18PM PDT

10.03.2008 - 9:43 PM

Web 2.0 aims to enhance user creativity, information sharing, collaboration and functionality of the Web. These features enable social networking, video sharing, blogs, Web publishing, plus other popular methods of information and content creation, editing, sharing and distribution. This power is being abused by spammers and malware authors to carry out various attacks, which pose a threat to Web 2.0 functionality.

More: http://securitylabs.websense.com/content/Blogs/3200.aspx

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