I’ll tell you about the latest Facebook misdeeds
The information of 533 million Facebook accounts was illegally posted on an online forum of hi-tech pirates. The comment by Umberto Rapetto, director of Infosec.news
The information of 533 million Facebook accounts was illegally posted on an online forum of hi-tech pirates, demonstrating the fragility of the security systems of the gigantic social platform.
Names, surnames, home addresses, telephone numbers, e-mails and many biographical news ended up being fed to the curious and the malicious.
Everything that users have entered on the pages to "describe themselves", provide details to friends or simply to satisfy Zuckerberg & C.'s "hunger" for data, is now online. Anyone who has a minimum of familiarity with cyber dangers knows perfectly well that these cognitive elements can be used by hackers to steal the identity of the unfortunate and to commit frauds and scams in their name and on their behalf.
Even if the data would not be very recent (it would be a "robbery" made at the beginning of the summer of 2019) it is easy to imagine that they have not changed so significantly (just think of those who have had the same telephone number for ten years …) and therefore the risk looms.
To give this "good" news is Alon Gal , chief technology officer of the computer security company Hudson Rock, who instead of sending a normal Easter card to friends and relatives, tweeted the terrible discovery.
It is obviously an immense archive that includes general information and other information relating to subjects located in 106 countries around the world.
If it is true that Facebook users are over two billion, with a little arithmetic effort it must be acknowledged that one in four accounts is unduly "transparent" for those who want to take advantage of it.
Those with a good memory remember the "Cambridge Analytica" scandal that with the violation of "only" 80 million Facebook profiles made the world shake, shaking the spectrum of interference in the 2016 American elections and that only in Australia must "deserve" in Zuckerberg 153 billion euros in fines .
The circumstance must make those who manage this infinite amount of data reflect, remembering the responsibilities that, by virtue of the different laws that protect personal information in every corner of the planet, weigh on those who use them.
The fact, however, must be of teaching to social media regulars and in particular to those who "drink" all the recommendations that those platforms usually serve out to those who use them.
Obsessively – during the identification and authentication of users (practically close to typing the account and password) – an invitation to enter your telephone number appears on the screen for alleged "security reasons".
Someone (and not just someone) did not take long to obey, showing diligence and trust.
But there are those who really believe that, if something happens on their profile, the cell phone starts ringing and an affectionate operator shows up saying "Excuse me for the trouble, we would like to warn you that some rascal ….", recounting the misdeeds just carried out by the brigand on duty?
If those of Facebook automatically notice possible cyber-pranks, why don't they block them automatically as well?
In the meantime, the number of mobile phones of those who once joined the Facebook solicitation is on sale on Telegram …
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/vi-racconto-le-ultime-malefatte-di-facebook/ on Mon, 05 Apr 2021 09:17:47 +0000.