In a recent survey from Facebook regarding security, the facebook let the world know a fact almost 0.6 million security threats per day in the form of compromised user logins. That's a small 0.06 percent of the 1 billion logins the site sees daily, although it's still a sizable number.
While some will says to these security breaches as "hacks," but Facebook doesn't classified the compromised logins in that way.
A compromised login' means the person logging through others account by knowing their username and password, but we suspect they may not be the actual account holder, according to Fred Wolens, a public representative of Facebook.Because, knowing someone's username and password is not enough to get into his Facebook account if we are not confident that the person accessing the account is its original owner. It may be better to say 0.6 million accounts 'saved' per day.
Every time when this happens, we don't let the suspicious person to login into the account, and instead make them to pass some additional authentication challenge.Usually this involves a social Captcha, which Confirm the account owner by having them identify tagged pictures of their friends.Accounts are often compromised outside the Facebook system (Like phishing, malware, sharing their password on a site that was Hacked, etc.)
It's very bad that another person get access to your account and wreak havok on your friends or steal your personal information,check your past credential but it's also possible that the Hacker could change your password and lock you out of your account.
In a event, Facebook's response to implement new security measures, one of which is Called Trusted Friends, one of the new features will let users name up to five trusted friends who, in the event the user gets locked out of his or her account, will receive a code that can be passed on to the user to authenticate the account and identity.
The analogy Facebook is using is: It's like giving a copy of your house key to a family member or close friend. It's a good Security step that works when you've forgotten your password (or a malicious person has changed the password on you) and you can't access your email to reset the password yourself. When that happens, Facebook could send a code to your trusted friends who can pass it along to you by some other means, like by phone or SMS.
While some will says to these security breaches as "hacks," but Facebook doesn't classified the compromised logins in that way.
A compromised login' means the person logging through others account by knowing their username and password, but we suspect they may not be the actual account holder, according to Fred Wolens, a public representative of Facebook.Because, knowing someone's username and password is not enough to get into his Facebook account if we are not confident that the person accessing the account is its original owner. It may be better to say 0.6 million accounts 'saved' per day.
Every time when this happens, we don't let the suspicious person to login into the account, and instead make them to pass some additional authentication challenge.Usually this involves a social Captcha, which Confirm the account owner by having them identify tagged pictures of their friends.Accounts are often compromised outside the Facebook system (Like phishing, malware, sharing their password on a site that was Hacked, etc.)
It's very bad that another person get access to your account and wreak havok on your friends or steal your personal information,check your past credential but it's also possible that the Hacker could change your password and lock you out of your account.
In a event, Facebook's response to implement new security measures, one of which is Called Trusted Friends, one of the new features will let users name up to five trusted friends who, in the event the user gets locked out of his or her account, will receive a code that can be passed on to the user to authenticate the account and identity.
The analogy Facebook is using is: It's like giving a copy of your house key to a family member or close friend. It's a good Security step that works when you've forgotten your password (or a malicious person has changed the password on you) and you can't access your email to reset the password yourself. When that happens, Facebook could send a code to your trusted friends who can pass it along to you by some other means, like by phone or SMS.
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