Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Facebook was the target of hacker attacks, but survived

In announcing its regular security, social network Facebook has admitted that in the past month its workers had installed a virus on their laptops, and with this, the site was attacked by hackers.

Facebook has called the attack "sophisticated", and says that no data of its users is not compromised.

Social network has identified as Java software exploitation attack known as "zero day", which has exceeded the safety of workers approaches and harmful software installed on computer equipment.

Oracle, which manages Java software is alerted to this weakness, and it immediately has released a new version of its software to eliminate the problem, Facebook has announced on its official posting.

Although has prnuar problem, only after some time that it happened, Facrbook aims to provide users that their personal information is not passed to hackers

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