Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users

nytimes.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

481–490 of 635 posts

Re: Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users

#481

Post by Spooky23 »

glori3 wrote: post #367
reaperducer wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I work at a company like this. In fact, I need permission from my manager's manager's manager in order to stay past 7pm. This company believes in a strong work-life balance, and this is one of the ways it achieves this. Also, it "changes the world" in good ways, not by "connecting people" through bogus data siphoning addiction traps.

If you did, do you get fired? Genuinely curious: what happens? Personally I strongly prefer no fixed working hours. If you want to work at night, so that you can do things when it’s light out (especially in winter), and you still get the expected results, what’s wrong with that?

A few workaholics create a culture where more people become expected to be doing stuff outside of business hours.

Also, lone wolves working at night are harder to manage and communicate with.

Re: Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users

#482

Post by bogomipz »

>"“This is another sobering indicator that Congress needs to step up and take action to protect the privacy and security of social media users,” Senator Mark Warner, a Democrat from Virginia and one of Facebook’s most vocal critics in Congress, said in a statement."

What an ass. It's simply amazing that he makes a statement like that when Congress hasn't bothered to "stand up" to Equifax, Experian and TransUnion yet. Not once. Maybe look into protecting privacy and security of people period, FB and social media are but one component of that.

Re: Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users

#483

Post by 1mike12 »

3K7m7bUZyWA1KCD wrote: post #431
dom96 wrote: post #2

Some more details here: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/09/security-update/

Does anyone have an idea on how this exploit could have worked? If only the hacker(s) would write a blog article or make a LiveOverflow-style video about it. It would be quite entertaining. I'd be so curious/intrigued to know more about this specific exploit, it's a shame it wasn't a responsible disclosure from a white-hat.

One of the top comments by herpderperator dives into it pretty good. The part that I had questions was where it tied into the increased traffic patterns. But if I'm understanding it correctly, that would be because you're baiscally walking the graph, each token that you compromise, you have to masquerade as that new person to expose more tokens that they are connected to.

Re: Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users

#484

Post by Spooky23 »

scarface74 wrote: post #215
fesoliveira wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, and it shouldn't be up to an employer to set that limit, but to regulatory bodies. Having people spend 12-14h a day working is not good in the long term, and expecting people to do that otherwise they will be fired is draconic.

It’s not that cut and dry. For a lot of reasons, I don’t do side projects. But I do choose jobs that are using technologies that will keep me marketable. So if I want to learn a new to me technology, I’ll often work some crazy hours to both learn the technology and get the work done. Yes my company benefits from it, but so do I. For instance, given a choice of trying to come up with an idea to learn about a feature o…

You’re not working.

Re: Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users

#485

Post by Jedi72 »

0xmohit wrote: post #418

Facebook is blocking users from posting stories about its security breach Some users are reporting that they are unable to post today’s big story about a security breach affecting 50 million Facebook users. The issue appears to only affect particular stories from certain outlets, at this time one story from The Guardian and one from the Associated Press, both reputable press outlets. ... The situation is another exam…

I posted on Facebook about how the NSA have a profile of everyones race, sexual preference religion etc- it was in the context of the Australian government digital health record scheme, I basically said no point opting out of that if you already have Facebook. The post was gone within 20 minutes, right off my wall. Facebook is a closed platform now, at least in China everyone acknowledges the censorship, in the west were still cencored but the fact that it happens is also cencored.

Re: Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users

#486

Post by kderbyma »

myth_buster wrote: post #450
yuliyp wrote: post #447

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which posts are being blocked? The Guardian one and the AP one linked at the top of that post work fine for me.

Those articles were hitting their spam filter (not sure why reliable news sources won't be whitelisted) which prevented users from posting and deleted posts that were already made. They may have fixed the "bug" now.

It's because the Guardian is not a 'Reputable' new site wholly. It is still remotely published stories that aren't under employees or constant people. I am pretty sure associated Press is the same. They are better than say Rebel, but not much better

Re: Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users

#487

Post by kotajacob »

mtrn wrote: post #383
Globz wrote: post #333

What really freaks me out is the day Facebook die, what will happen to all of this data? If you heard about the NCIX story where they basically abandoned their servers filled with users data (over 13 years of data) and someone scooped them up and tried to resell them on the black market, one could think that a similar fate is possible. source : https://www.privacyfly.com/articles/ncix_breach/ Obviously if Facebook wa…

> What really freaks me out is the day Facebook die, what will happen to all of this data? Interestingly, Facebook owns your data. I believe if they wanted to, they could close the company tomorrow and put a facebook.tar.xz of everything they collected on archive.org or somewhere else.

I wonder if archive.org could actually store that much data.. and how long it would take to create a tar.xz of it.

Re: Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users

#488

Post by labster »

kidsnow wrote: post #477
herpderperator wrote: post #415

Excerpts from the press call transcript [1] by Guy Rosen explaining what lead to this breach being possible: > The first bug was that, when using the View As function to look at your profile as another person would, the video uploader shouldn’t have actually shown up at all. But in a very specific case, on certain types of posts that are encouraging people to post happy birthday greetings, it did show up. > The secon…

Just as Microsoft developed Patch Tuesday, Facebook should have Forced Logoff Friday

Every day on Facebook should be forced logoff day. Or, at least, incognito mode day.

Re: Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users

#489

Post by why_only_15 »

lurker456 wrote: post #389
ilaksh wrote: post #271

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pervasive biometric security may be the next step. I know it's scary and could actually be abused but it also can generally increase the level of security for everyone.

If your password is leaked, then you can still reset it. If your fingerprint signature leaks, you're out of options.

Burn your fingers!

Re: Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users

#490

Post by briandear »

0xmohit wrote: post #418

Facebook is blocking users from posting stories about its security breach Some users are reporting that they are unable to post today’s big story about a security breach affecting 50 million Facebook users. The issue appears to only affect particular stories from certain outlets, at this time one story from The Guardian and one from the Associated Press, both reputable press outlets. ... The situation is another exam…

Code formatting makes your comment unreadable on mobile. Any chance one could simply use “>” like everyone else does?
Post reply on HN