After two recent worm attacks on Facebook, the popular social networking site responded last night with a statement about its security practices. Regarding the attacks, Max Kelly, head of security at Facebook, wrote this in a blog post:

“We spent most of last night working on a fix for a worm, which was targeting people on Facebook and placing messages on Walls urging users to view a video that pretends to be hosted on a Google or YouTube website. We’ve identified and blocked the ability to link to the malicious websites from anywhere on Facebook”.

Facts you should know:

Making a social network secure is impossible. As fast as any other social network blocks known malicious sites, hackers will come up with new ones. There’s no work around to put a fix to this issue.

If a user’s home PC gets owned, the malware can navigate the social network much in the same way that a legitimate user can. That could be tough for the Facebook security team to detect as the malware would have similar attributes to the user.

It’s up to all users to surf carefully when browsing through any social network to avoid malicious malware. Malware can harm your computer and can take hours in trying to quarantine or remove worms from the users computer registry.