Maryland General Assembly Bans Facebook, MySpace
Fri, Feb 6th, 2009
The rise in the number of viruses targeting social networks such as Facebook and MySpace has prompted the Maryland General Assembly to ban the two services from its computers and networks, according to a local blogger, who managed to get ahold of the memo outlining the ban. The services won’t be available from the computers of state legislators and their staffs, apparently avid users of Facebook.
Read the whole story on GigaOM
My research documents reports of the Koobface worm infecting (or attempting to infect) workplace-related computers by way of Facebook. Employers thus have security as a reason to block social network sites. http://computersafety.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/security-threat-facebook-and-myspace-at-work/ -Ben