Every 24 hours 600 000 Facebook accounts are subject to hacking or other violations, said the company Facebook.
Social network announced the data on the hacker activity, along with new measures to protect the privacy of users. "We adapt and respond to new threats every day and will continue to develop new ways to protect your account", - reported the company.
In the Facebook blog introduced new tools, which will help users to gain access to their accounts if they are blocked and confirm the authenticity through friends. "This is something that you give the key of the house of his friends, when going on vacation - choose your friends, to whom you most of all trust, in case if you need help", - is explained in the message.
The Function of a "Trusted friends" (the"Trusted friends") will allow users to select multiple friends, which by default will be given the access code to your account in case you can't get access to it.
It also tests the function, which will allow users to use passwords to log into third-party applications.
The original guest reviews are heterogeneous, many pointed out that the "friends" are also subject to attacks and break-ins, and safety may be compromised even more when providing access to information to third parties.
Meanwhile, according to researchers from the Barracuda Labs, one of the 100 tweets is malicious, in Facebook this indicator is 1 to 60 messages.
A new study of Secure data about the users of social networks showed that LinkedIn is the least locked enterprises of the social network: only 20% of organizations prevent the use of LinkedIn at work.
More than 90% of the users received spam through a social network, and more than half of them were subjected to phishing attacks. More than 20% received malicious programs; accounts 16.6% of the users are used to send spam, accounts approximately 13% of users were captured or their passwords have been stolen. Much more than half of the users are not satisfied with the privacy policy on Facebook.
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