Facebook has revealed a curious strategy that protects everyone in his social network: buying on the black market databases with accounts hacked.
During his speech at the Web Summit 2016 in Lisbon, the 9th of November, Alex Stamos, chief security officer of Facebook, spoke of a recurring practice of the team within the social network.
The same consists in buying keys allegedly hacked from Facebook to cross them with their own records, for detecting those data that match, sending to vulnerable users a notification to change their password urgently:
“it Turns out that we can develop software systems perfectly safe and still the people come out injured. The re-use of passwords is the number one cause of damage among the users of the network,” says Stamos.
According to the executive, the bad habit of using the same password on all services and social networks ends up in breach of the negative users exposed, as would the theft of data from a single account to expose all the others to an intrusion.
The executive ensures that the user names and passwords are elements designed for the software systems of the 1970s, and that is something that was out of date with the dynamics and demand of 2016.
this is why the company is working on new systems for identification.
so soon, if they receive that notice of a change of key, it is necessary to follow it.
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