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Demo Facebook app creates DoS botnet

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"Do you know what that innocent-looking Facebook app is really doing?

Researchers at the Institute of Computer Science (ICS) have created a proof-of-concept Facebook application capable of covertly herding users of the popular social network into a powerful — and malicious — botnet.

The demo application, called Photo of the Day, delivers a different image from National Geographic everyday but, behind the scenes, special code embedded into the application creates a botnet of Facebook users launching denial-of-service attacks."

This just brings facebook to a whole new level of creepy.

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This just brings facebook to a whole new level of creepy.

Maybe even worse than creepy.

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