SYDNEY & AUCKLAND – September 30, 2011 – Bitdefender®, an award-winning provider of innovative Internet security solutions, has today released a security whitepaper on Facebook malware, scams and account-jacking schemes.

The whitepaper draws upon the volume of insights and data gathered from social threats detected by Bitdefender Safego, BitDefender’s Facebook security application which has protected more than 100,000 Facebook users from various scams, malware and threats in its first year of existence.

Friends, Fiends and Facebook: The New Battlefield Against Scammers examines the flurry of recent changes to Facebook, and highlights a likely future of bigger spam waves and heightened precision of targeted attacks. The whitepaper also details existing Facebook scams that are likely to propagate, despite the introduction of features and overhaul of existing ones during Facebook’s September f8 developer conference.

From password policy and private browsing to hijacking recovery, the whitepaper explores best practices to safeguard against scams that take advantage of the increased openness on the new Facebook.

The whitepaper can be downloaded from the link: http://download.bitdefender.com/resources/media/materials/white-papers/en/facebook-whitepaper.pdf

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