“But the extensive hack vaporizes those arguments. It was also more secure than creating and remembering dozens of passwords for different sites,” he wrote. The arrangement was convenient - the super was always right there, at the push of a button. “Like a trusty superintendent in a Brooklyn walk-up, Facebook offered to carry keys for every lock online.
New York Times tech columnist Farhad Manjoo, for one, has sworn off Facebook Login for good. Attackers were exploiting a security flaw that gave them full access to 50 million Facebook accounts, meaning they could also get into connected food delivery apps, fitness trackers, ride-share services and much, much more, like this … Wi-Fi enabled sous-vide?įacebook says there’s “ no evidence” on its end that attackers improperly accessed any third-party apps, but the whole episode has inspired hand-wringing over just how much access we turn over to one service. If you’re logged in with Facebook, you’re logged in anywhere else. The issue here is Facebook Login, a service that lets you access other accounts around the web without managing another password. But this data breach goes way beyond Facebook, and it’s worth wading into the site’s thicket of privacy settings to see where else you might have been compromised. Maybe you were one of them, and maybe you even took a minute to change your password. Last week, 90 million people had to log back into Facebook following a cyberattack.
0 kommentar(er)
