There’s no doubt that social media as emerged as a major conduit through which malware is now be distributed across the Internet. What’s nice to see is that the owners of social networking sites are finally starting to do something about it.

Phishing has been one of the banes of e-mail ever since the first e-mail delivery services emerged. Now more than a decade later it looks as though we finally may be witnessing the beginning of a broad-based effort to curtail, if not eliminate, the vast majority of phishing attacks.