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The newsfeeds of numerous Facebook users have become flooded with filth – specifically violent and pornographic images – as the result of an attack against the social network over the last day or so. Objectionable content such as photoshopped images of celebrities such as Justin Bieber in sexual situations, violent pictures …

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  1. Tom Rowan
    Unhappy

    Erm. Where's *my* filth then?

    Typical. No filth for me.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Reason to go back to Facebook?

    Been using Google+ and it's superb, but all this porn might make me log back into FackFuck again.

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  3. Handle This
    Joke

    And the difference is . . .?

    Is this outpouring so different from the aesthetic quality of the typical Facebook page anyway? Is there really a reason to complain?

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  4. Robert E A Harvey
    Unhappy

    I saw some of this, allegedly posted fy a friend. He had signed up for nothing on FB, had granted no apps access to his account.

    I reckon something in a browser is accessing the fog of cookies farcebuk leaves around.

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    1. anon10293
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      Facepalm

      PEBKAC

      This is just another instance of users clicking on unfamiliar links without thinking twice about it. No further access has to be granted to any application, or any service signed up for.

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      1. The Flying Dutchman
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        Apparently it's an issue of users pasting js code in the browser address bar, which is worse yet.

        http://tinyurl.com/c6bof6m

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  5. RFC2196
    FAIL

    What happened to the wonderful real-time content checking?

    Like it says - what happened? Whilst you can't legislate for the stupidity of Facebook users, surely the security vendor has to answer a question or two about the "real-time" content engine.......

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  6. Goat Jam
    Trollface

    Justin Bieber in sexual situations and depictions of an abused dog

    Hopefully not in the same picture.

    ewww

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    1. Tom Rowan
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      Coat

      Or are they the same picture just described in two ways...?

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    2. Elmer Phud
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      Just a typo

      "Objectionable content such as photoshopped images of celebrities such as Justin Bieber in sexual situations"

      Should read "Objectionable content such as images of Justin Bieber"

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  7. multipharious

    Users pasted links into the browser address bar...

    ...of an out of date browser.

    The malware then installed itself when the browser visited the dodgy page, and once the user was logged into facebook the posting begins. This is the initial vector of transmission anyway. Details are hard to come by on this one. Lot of noise though.

    If this had not used shocking images, would facebook have reacted so quickly? They are still relying on end users to flag content, but one article I read the end users were so busy commenting.

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