Facebook bug set 14M users' sharing settings to public

Re:Facebook bug set 14M users' sharing settings to public by dorchadas on Thursday June 07, 2018 @08:26PM (#17261566)

Wasn't that more social engineering and password guessing though? Nothing they can do there apart from more security layers in the password/login but people will still not use string passes and be suspectible to social engineering.

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Re:Facebook bug set 14M users' sharing settings to public by linkregister on Friday June 08, 2018 @02:30AM (#17263089)

After that they did exactly that, they included multi-factor authentication when it was previously unavailable. The MFA available in 2018 is dramatically better than it was in 2014, when I believe all that occurred.

Companies that don't protect unsophisticated users from simple mistakes or inaccurate mental models will get a reputation for being insecure and lose sales. This is regardless of whether the user "should have known better."

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Re:Facebook bug set 14M users' sharing settings to public by bitmapbrother on Friday June 08, 2018 @03:32AM (#17263357)

Their iCloud service was susceptible to brute force attacks.

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