Abstract: A method of facilitating the scanning of web pages for suspect and/or malicious hyperlinks that includes receiving at a content hosting website, user generated content. A web page or web page containing said content is then generated and, in the web page source code is included a detection code segment or a link from which a detection code segment can be downloaded. The detection code segment is executable by a web browser or web browser plug-in to scan the web page(s), or cause the web page(s) to be scanned, for suspect and/or malicious links.

Abstract: A method of detecting undesirable content on a social networking website. The method includes retrieving or accessing a post from a user's social networking page, identifying the content of a pre-defined set of features of the post, comparing the identified feature content with a database of known undesirable post feature content, and using the results of the comparison to determine whether the post is undesirable.

Abstract: An example embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus including at least one processor; and at least one memory including executable instructions, the at least one memory and the executable instructions being configured to, in cooperation with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following: retrieve from a social networking service at least one of: user profile information of a user and user profile information of each contact node of the user in the social networking service; and a connection structure between the user and each contact node of the user, analyze the retrieved user profile information and/or the determined connection structure, and separate any outliers among the contact nodes on the basis of the analysis.

Abstract: A method of facilitating the scanning of web pages for suspect and/or malicious hyperlinks that includes receiving at a content hosting website, user generated content. A web page or web page containing said content is then generated and, in the web page source code is included a detection code segment or a link from which a detection code segment can be downloaded. The detection code segment is executable by a web browser or web browser plug-in to scan the web page(s), or cause the web page(s) to be scanned, for suspect and/or malicious links.