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Inside Facebook's Cyber-Security System
An anonymous reader writes "The Facebook Immunity System (FIS) processes and checks 25 billion actions every day, or 650,000 actions every second. The social networking giant's cybersecurity system was developed over a three-year period to keep the service's users safe from spam and cyberattacks. FIS scans every click on Facebook for patterns that could suggest something malicious is spreading across the social network."
Numerous pages I've liked incessantly spew spam at me, my mother keeps getting messages from "facebook security" or some variation thereof, asking her to confirm her password.
Admit it. You post strawman arguments as AC so you get modded Insightful for refuting them, rather than Troll
An anonymous corksoaker writes
"The Slashdot Human Intelligence Test (SHIT) processes and checks 25 billion first posters every day, or 650,000 frosties per second. The gay networking giant's cybersecurity system was developed over a three-year period to keep the service's gay users safe from first posts and flamebaits. SHIT scans every click on Slashdot for patterns that could suggest computer generated posts are spreading across the gay network."
Segmentation Fault (core dumped)
It has not detected any of the Zynga games at all.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
I do not know about security but they still have very exploitable user interfaces... Like you can go to forgot password page, and have facebook send "I forgot my password" e-mails to anyone, without any confirmation - like you can go there and type john in the username and spam his e-mail. Multiple times a day...
anything truly malicious would be designed to portray patterns that would suggest it wasn't malicious.
From time to time I would post a link to the Beta Testing announcment for my iOS App. After a while Facebook would not allow me to post the link anymore, claiming that it was abusive.
A friend of mine who uses Facebook quite a lot had to sign up for a second account because her first account kept getting censored. She was not doing anything the least bit abusive, just using Facebook a lot to keep in touch with her friends.
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"FIS scans every click on Facebook for patterns that could suggest something malicious is spreading across the social network."
Let me fix that: FIS scans every click on Facebook for patterns that could collect more personal information about users which might add to revenue.
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
In a one-hour look at Facebook and privacy, CBC's Doczone identified Facebook as the worlds #1 site for scammers and other illegal activity.
If you missed it, it's also on again tomorrow night.
Other interesting points - researchers made an account for a plastic frog, and invited a couple of hundred random people to friend it - most did, sharing their contacts, personal info, etc., with a PLASTIC FROG! And they really do nail what facebook really is
For users - a large MMORPG where the object is to collect as many friends as possible
For facebook - a way of getting people to give it up to advertisers.
It's just our Facebook Immunity System making sure you're safe. Honest!
24 hours * 60 minutes * 60 seconds = 86,400 seconds
25,000,000,000 actions / 86,400 seconds = 289,352 actions/second
If my calculations are correct, it's actually 7.62 billion actions per second.
They must have a different definition of spam than I do. Whenever I log into Facebook, I see adds over on the right side trumpeting "overstock iPad 2s available for 90% off" and various other similar and obviously bogus offerings.
#DeleteChrome
Their so called security locked me out of my account because I logged in while on vacation in Romania. They also demanded I email them a copy of a government issued ID to prove my identity. I told them they could go fuck themselves I was not going to send them a copy of my ID so they deleted my account.
Now only if they could get it to do something about all those data miners, such as the cancer of Facebook and its like button...
Facebook and ANY kind of security mentioned in the same sentence?
Who are you trying to fool, but the fools?
If you expect 'cyber-security'(or ANY security on Facebook, you need to be beaten past death with a clue bat. Chlorine in the gene pool....
Down With Slashdot BETA!!! I've been around the corner and seen the oliphant; you can only abuse me from your perspecti
they would do something about the simple things as well. I've heard/read loads about their session hijacking problems (e.g. Firesheep). I was under the impression they didn't even have a security system/team.
OMG, people actually use face-book? There was me silently thinking Google Plus + was the new hip and in thing. Social networking, it couldnt be more anti-social, have any of these people heard of Alexander Bell and a thing he invented called a Phone!
now i'm more worried about these idiots
The data is analyzed in real-time in a field of exabytes and we need a magnetron to bring it down. Psssht