Web of Trust will improve resource for over 500 million users. System prevents users to click on malicious links in social networks.
Facebook has adopted an alert service to help users do not click on links in questionable Internet, with a rating system of websites developed by a start-up Finnish.
The new alert service, Web of Trust (WOT), a company based in Helsinki, Finland, Facebook will help improve the security of the site for over 500 million users, amid growing concerns about fraud, spam and malware in web.
The WOT calculates the reputation of 31 million web pages and updates its rating two times per hour, based on feedback from approximately 20 million users.
With the new feature, a breakthrough for your current security system, a click on a link whose site has a low reputation is a warning message appears. The rankings are based on data from 20 million users and information security companies that list harmful sites.
Facebook declined to comment on the volume of security attacks that receives and values according to WOT were not disclosed.
WOT's investors include Michael Widenius, founder of the database The MySQL open source start-up provides a financial balance this summer (northern hemisphere) in turnover for between 2 million euros ($ 2.8 million) and 3 million euros this year, said Vesa Perala, managing director at WOT.
"Our goal is to have 50 million users by the end of the year and 100 million active users in the long term," said Perala.
