Yet another Security Breach

As facebook is the holder, of one of the largest databases of  people and peoples information in the world you would believe that their privacy settings should provide you with a sense security. Despite the security/privacy settings facebook has in place, it has been proven once more that their security is not impenetrable.

As per SiliconRepublic.com:
" Over the course of an eight-week investigation, the researchers deployed 102 socialbots onto the social network and each bot was able to assume a name and profile picture of a fictitious person and friend requests were sent to more than 5,000 random accounts.

The researchers claimed a 19pc success rate in the first two weeks and a 59pc success rate in the following six weeks."

 This indicates the huge vulnerabilities within the facebook system as their excuse for this breach is that it came from an academic institution. Really? are there no hackers that try to get into databases and systems from academic institutions? What cloud are you living on Mark Zuckerburg?

 While I am a user of facebook, I personally will be modifying the information available on my facebook and may even consider shutting it down.

With the likes of duqu surfacing on a daily basis do you feel secure?

Read more on Duqu here: 

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/strategy/item/24114-security-alert-meet-duqu/

 Essentially, like the war on drugs, I believe the world is losing its fight with cyber attacks and hackers. Is there any viable widely available solution? Not yet

"Senior security executives from some of the world’s largest corporations have warned that becoming victim to cyber attacks and corporate espionage is a matter of when, not if".-The Security for Business Innovation Council (SBIC)