After all the criticisms raised about the safety of its system, try to patch Facebook. The social network has just launched two new options to increase the degree of protection for the account of its users in an attempt to limit the dangers of identity fraud and malware to run into people who surf the site.
Safety precautions that come shortly after the official page of the blatant violation of founder Mark Zuckerberg by a hacker and a similar occurrence happened to the likes of French President Nicolas Sarkozy. To announce the new options, with a few hours ahead of the Privacy Day is celebrated this Friday, was an official company blog post, in which, however, avoids any reference to the recent episodes.
The latest safety of technological and Facebook are like the DNA of the company, social. First there is the possibility to use the site using a secure connection with the protocol "https". This is an encryption system used mainly in the sites of e-commerce or banks when transferring sensitive data such as passwords and account numbers: the end user can see the use of this protocol is close to the bar browser's address appears in a closed padlock or an inscription in green (depending on the browser).
Until now, Facebook used the https only for the transmission of the password, but in the coming days the site will make it possible to use it for the duration of the connection to the social network can be activated through a command from the control panel of each member. As reported by the social network, the constant use dell'https increases security but can slow down and prevent the operation of some third party applications (video games and more).
Better to use it only if you access the site from connections to unsecured networks or public wi-fi. In January of 2010 was the Gmail e-mail system to introduce surfing to https as a standard option in response to violations by Chinese hackers. The other option that the social network is about to launch is the social authentication.
In the case of a suspected breach of the account, the system may prompt the user for additional verification to confirm his identity. If you are logged in the morning from Italy, the United States and Australia in the afternoon in the evening for example, the original site will enable this security measure.
Instead of asking the composition of a captcha, the series of copy letters to prove that a person, not a computer, Facebook will ask you about her friends. By showing photos where their friends are tagged, the user will be selecting their name from a list. "The hacker halfway around the world will know your password, but your friends," says the note from the official blog.
This security measure has, however, some danger if their friends have a habit of being tagged in photos as they are not present (think of the classic picture cards in which dozens of people have tagged), in their profile if they have a lot of shots when they were in elementary school or among their friends is someone I even remember you or that you have never seen before.
In any case, the social identification will skip a couple of pictures if you can not recognize them. These solutions are however not the only ones that Facebook introduced to fill gaps in the system. While a spokesman for the site has assured the press that the manipulation of page Zuckerberg has been possible due to a bug right now, the social network has also reached an agreement with the German authorities.
From the city of Hamburg was in fact playing a protest against the company policy on e-mails sent to non-members: These are the messages sent to addresses in the address book of someone who has just been registered and which urged people to register themselves on Facebook to find friends.
In light of the new agreement, the site of Zuckerberg does not allow members to stop sending unsolicited email and protect their privacy in this way. 
Safety precautions that come shortly after the official page of the blatant violation of founder Mark Zuckerberg by a hacker and a similar occurrence happened to the likes of French President Nicolas Sarkozy. To announce the new options, with a few hours ahead of the Privacy Day is celebrated this Friday, was an official company blog post, in which, however, avoids any reference to the recent episodes.
The latest safety of technological and Facebook are like the DNA of the company, social. First there is the possibility to use the site using a secure connection with the protocol "https". This is an encryption system used mainly in the sites of e-commerce or banks when transferring sensitive data such as passwords and account numbers: the end user can see the use of this protocol is close to the bar browser's address appears in a closed padlock or an inscription in green (depending on the browser).
Until now, Facebook used the https only for the transmission of the password, but in the coming days the site will make it possible to use it for the duration of the connection to the social network can be activated through a command from the control panel of each member. As reported by the social network, the constant use dell'https increases security but can slow down and prevent the operation of some third party applications (video games and more).
Better to use it only if you access the site from connections to unsecured networks or public wi-fi. In January of 2010 was the Gmail e-mail system to introduce surfing to https as a standard option in response to violations by Chinese hackers. The other option that the social network is about to launch is the social authentication.
In the case of a suspected breach of the account, the system may prompt the user for additional verification to confirm his identity. If you are logged in the morning from Italy, the United States and Australia in the afternoon in the evening for example, the original site will enable this security measure.
Instead of asking the composition of a captcha, the series of copy letters to prove that a person, not a computer, Facebook will ask you about her friends. By showing photos where their friends are tagged, the user will be selecting their name from a list. "The hacker halfway around the world will know your password, but your friends," says the note from the official blog.
This security measure has, however, some danger if their friends have a habit of being tagged in photos as they are not present (think of the classic picture cards in which dozens of people have tagged), in their profile if they have a lot of shots when they were in elementary school or among their friends is someone I even remember you or that you have never seen before.
In any case, the social identification will skip a couple of pictures if you can not recognize them. These solutions are however not the only ones that Facebook introduced to fill gaps in the system. While a spokesman for the site has assured the press that the manipulation of page Zuckerberg has been possible due to a bug right now, the social network has also reached an agreement with the German authorities.
From the city of Hamburg was in fact playing a protest against the company policy on e-mails sent to non-members: These are the messages sent to addresses in the address book of someone who has just been registered and which urged people to register themselves on Facebook to find friends.
In light of the new agreement, the site of Zuckerberg does not allow members to stop sending unsolicited email and protect their privacy in this way.
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