Some said this year 2010 is the year of spam, as the networking gurus at Cisco predicted that worldwide spam volumes will increase by 30 or 40 percent over 2009 levels; see the PDF report here.

Apart from simply reading the report or get ready to the spamming challenges, Facebook has announced that they have fixed one of the bugs spotted, although it was not the most notorious spam attacks like Koobface. This bug namely as “Unnamed App” and the past days many Facebook users have even posted their status updates to make other users aware about it.

A latest update, Facebook officials told CNN that the bug wasn’t harmful and is fixed. Facebook spokesperson Malorie Lucich said that the bug was fixed by January 27 afternoon.

“Due to a small bug, an application listed as “Unnamed App” appeared in some users’ Applications Settings. No user accounts or data were lost or damaged,” according to Lucich.

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