Week in Facebook news: New privacy tools, unfriending study and making spammer pay up

08.10.2010

The Quebec Superior Court has upheld a November 2008 U.S. judgment against Adam Guerbuez after he was found guilty of sending out more than 4 million penis-enlargement, marijuana and pornographic spam messages via Facebook. It was the largest-ever award under the U.S.'s federal antispam law.

Guerbuez meanwhile has filled his blog with posts that show him living the high life in Las Vegas and Beverly Hills, and dining out at fancy restaurants.

iPhone spam attack targets Facebook users

Security company Sophos warned Facebook users last week about a . Naturally, the website then does its dirty deeds, in this case accessing the user’s information profile and spamming their friends, all in an attempt to drive traffic to the website.

in Network World's Software section.