New security system to protect social media

Social media has little or no in-built security system to protect one's profile from malicious content.

ESET has introduced Social Media Scanner, an application designed to protect one's profile and its contents from malware distributed through social networking sites.

"The Social Media Scanner monitors new social media content (for example, wall postings containing links or unknown 'friend requests' on Facebook) and looks for malicious code," a company spokesman said.

"ESET's social media scanner works primarily by monitoring personal social media accounts. At the same time, it can also be used to test the safety of content posted to the accounts of the 'friends' of a user. It can be configured to block malicious content by automatically posting a comment that warns to avoid media that has been found to contain malicious code," he said.

"Social Media Scanner is a timely need," said Director of DCS International (Pvt) Limited, the parent company of ESET in Sri Lanka, Shihan Annon.