The Financial Times' technology blog has reported that Facebook users will soon be able to use an "https" secure connection - usually deployed to secure e-commerce and e-banking browsers - to log in to the popular social networking site, after hackers managed to cheekily access social networking wunderkind Mark Zuckerberg's personal profile.
Hackers accessing Zuckerberg's profile posted a message criticising the firm's plans to shift gears and up the gaming and advertising ante after securing a US$1.5 billion investment from Goldman Sachs.
"Let the hacking begin: If Facebook needs money, instead of going to the banks, why doesn't Facebook let its users invest in Facebook in a social way?" The Hacked posted, adding: "Why not transform Facebook into a 'social business' the way Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus described it? What do you think?"
While the offending comment was deleted in lightning-quick time, eagle-eyed bloggers at TechCrunch had already spotted and publicised the hack, prompting an embarrassed Big Blue F to comment that a "bug" had temporarily enabled unauthorised users to make status postings "on a handful of public pages."
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Source: bigmouthmedia.com
By: N. Hamilton
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