Webopedia Term of the Day: What is Koobface?

Courtesy Linux Today  Thu, 01/26/2012 - 04:02

Webopedia: "The name given to a computer worm that uses Facebook's messaging system to infect PCs in an attempt to gather sensitive information such as credit card numbers."

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