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Facebook announced that it is testing an online-banking service with Australia's Commonwealth Bank expected to debut this year. The new system lets people make payments to other Facebook users, and will become a test of how well Facebook can handle the deep-science realities of financial privacy and security.

A study of a widely used system to provide security for Internet shopping, banking and other services showed that it failed to work correctly in a small number of cases.

First they showed up in your e-mail. Then they found their way onto Facebook. Now ads are coming to your checking account.