Islamist Extremists will use Facebook for their Propaganda

AZ — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:47:51 +0000

After Spreading propaganda on YouTube, blogs and other social media websites with great success Islamic extremists, so called jihadists, are planning to put together their efforts on Social Networking sites, especially Facebook.

“We can use Facebook to fight the media,” notes a recent posting on the extremist al-Faloja forum, translated by Jihadica.com. “We can post media on Facebook that shows the Crusader losses.”

“We have already had great success in raiding YouTube,” the poster adds. “American politicians have used Facebook to get votes, like the house slave Obama.”

Groups like Al-Qaida were pioneering users of the internet — to train, share ideas and organize. But some observers, like George Washington University professor Marc Lynch, see a reluctance to embrace Web 2.0 tools like Facebook. “One of the biggest problems for a virtual network today is that it needs to build connections between its members while protecting itself from its enemies. He raised a very important question, “That’s a filtering problem: How do you get your people in, and keep intelligence agents out?”.

But as Jihadica.com author and West Point Combating Terrorism Center fellow William McCants notes, the proposed Facebook invasion “is not an attempt to replicate [existing] social networks.” Instead, “the members of the campaign want to exploit existing networks of people who are hostile to them and presumably they will adopt new identities once they have posted their material.”

The al-Faloja poster suggests seven “brigades” work together within Facebook. One will distribute videos and writing of so-called “martyrs.” Another will spread military training material. Most of them will work in Arabic, presumably. But one of the units will focus just on spread English-language propaganda through Facebook.

It is not Surprising that spammers have entered into Facebook

AZ — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:53:03 +0000

As it was expected that due to many loopholes in facebook security sooner or later criminals will use facebook for their evil purposes. And it is ‘not surprising’ at all that cyber criminals have begun using Facebook to send out spam, according to security firm Sophos.

Carole Theriault, senior security consultant at the company, said that Facebook ‘has sky rocketed in importance and everyone loves it’, which means cyber criminals will enjoy it too.

‘Spammers and hackers basically follow the trend, so it is not surprising at all that they are attacking Facebook and using Facebook to send out spam,’ she said.

However, Ms Theriault revealed that users of the social networking site can protect themselves from attack.

‘One of the main ways that you can try and combat this and work at this is by setting your [configuration] options,’ she said.

However, personally i feel that facebook have so many security issues that even setting your configurations spammers and criminals still have many ways to access your accounts. So we should be really careful while using facebook and any other social networking sites. Especially the teenagers and young girls.

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