Security at Facebook rift revealed

Sophos, the world's IT security specialists warn again that the internet user's personal information may be in danger and should be dissociated from the internet. The information show that the most popular social networking site at this time that Facebook has a slit that allows hackers to access the profile information is worth more than 200 million users.

According to Sophos, the data can be taken, including date of birth, place of birth, sex, family members, relationship status, and others can be used to perform identity forgery.

Creator of the blog FBHive.com find an easy way to show anything listed on the panel 'Basic Information' every Facebook user. Even though this information has been hidden by the user using the security settings site. By using slit security, FBHive successfully access the personal information, such as members of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg (CEO Facebook), Kevin Rose (Digg founder), and Cory Doctorow (blogger well).

Cleft security is currently being diperbaiki by Facebook. However not yet known whether the hackers have been using information that was accessible to maluse.

"Fortunately Facebook has been aware and improve the security of this rift. But know that there was rift security, especially that can be potentially dangerous to the millions of Facebook users, who when they think that their information is not necessarily secure "said Graham Cluley, Senior Technology Consultant, Sophos, in the press that information VIVAnews quoted 26 June 2009. "This is not the first time they have found Facebook to be the center attention, because they were not successfully secure the information users. Last month, security slit that allows the identity thieves and spammers collect email addresses private also revealed, "said Cluley.

Cluley said, the user may need to know that if they want to safe in social networking, they should not rely on the sites to check their data. "In fact, may be better if it does not upload at all important information," said Cluley.

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