The Internet is a dangerous place full of botnets, malware and so many hackers._While recently battling a botnet Facebook realized that if it worked with other organizations and they shared information with each other, their answers could help all the companies involved to squelch the risk. From that initial partnership Facebook has built the ThreatExhange an API-based clearing house for companies to share security_information with each other._The initial partners were Pinterest, Tumblr, Twitter and Yahoo with Bitly and Dropbox joining the beta. The ThreatExchange platform is built upon the ThreatData framework and Facebook infrastructure. Partners can share as much or…

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