Hacker Group Anonymous Vows To Destroy Facebook On November 5

Hacktivist group Anonymous, which has been responsible for cyber-attacks on the Pentagon, News Corp, and others, has vowed to destroy Facebook on November 5th (which should ring a bell).
Citing privacy concerns and the difficulty involved in deleting a Facebook account, Anonymous hopes to "kill Facebook," the "medium of communication [we] all so dearly adore."
This isn't the first time Anonymous has spoken out against social networks.
After Google removed Anonymous' Gmail and Google+ accounts, Anonymous pledged to create its own social network, called AnonPlus.
The full text of the announcement, made on YouTube and reported by Village Voice, is below:

Operation Facebook

DATE: November 5, 2011.

TARGET: https://facebook.com

Press:
Twitter : https://twitter.com/OP_Facebook
http://piratepad.net/YCPcpwrl09
Irc.Anonops.Li #OpFaceBook
Message:

Attention citizens of the world,

We wish to get your attention, hoping you heed the warnings as follows:
Your medium of communication you all so dearly adore will be destroyed. If you are a willing hacktivist or a guy who just wants to protect the freedom of information then join the cause and kill facebook for the sake of your own privacy.

Facebook has been selling information to government agencies and giving clandestine access to information security firms so that they can spy on people from all around the world. Some of these so-called whitehat infosec firms are working for authoritarian governments, such as those of Egypt and Syria. 

Everything you do on Facebook stays on Facebook regardless of your "privacy" settings, and deleting your account is impossible, even if you "delete" your account, all your personal info stays on Facebook and can be recovered at any time. Changing the privacy settings to make your Facebook account more "private" is also a delusion. Facebook knows more about you than your family. http://www.physorg.com/news170614271.htmlhttp://itgrunts.com/2010/10/07/facebook-steals-numbers-and-data-from-your-iph.... 

You cannot hide from the reality in which you, the people of the internet, live in. Facebook is the opposite of the Antisec cause. You are not safe from them nor from any government. One day you will look back on this and realise what we have done here is right, you will thank the rulers of the internet, we are not harming you but saving you.

The riots are underway. It is not a battle over the future of privacy and publicity. It is a battle for choice and informed consent. It's unfolding because people are being raped, tickled, molested, and confused into doing things where they don't understand the consequences. Facebook keeps saying that it gives users choices, but that is completely false. It gives users the illusion of and hides the details away from them "for their own good" while they then make millions off of you. When a service is "free," it really means they're making money off of you and your information.

Think for a while and prepare for a day that will go down in history. November 5 2011, #opfacebook . Engaged.

This is our world now. We exist without nationality, without religious bias. We have the right to not be surveilled, not be stalked, and not be used for profit. We have the right to not live as slaves.

We are anonymous
We are legion
We do not forgive
We do not forget
Expect us

http://www.businessinsider.com/anonymous-facebook-2011-8

90 Sec News- Apple, RSA, Facebook, spyware, scareware, DDoS - June 2011

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/07/11/apple-rsa-facebook-spyware-scareware-ddos-90-sec-news-june-2011/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GrahamCluleysBlog+(Graham+Cluley%27s+blog)&utm_content=Twitter

Test driving the new internet...World IPv6 Day

IF your Google search takes a little longer than normal tomorrow, or your Facebook doesn't update quite as quickly, it may be due to a trial of new technology.

Tomorrow is World IPv6 Day, when more than 100 companies around the world will test a new way of assigning addresses to devices on the internet.
Narelle Clark of the Internet Society of Australia said the switch was important because the current system, IPv4, was unable to cope with the growing number of gadgets going online.
"In the past, when we were running out of telephone numbers, we added a single digit," Ms Clark told news.com.au.
"We can't take that same approach for the internet, as the entire numbering system needs more capacity — not just one country.
"Over the last fifteen years or so we have come up with some great ways to make those IPv4 addresses last longer, but we're now at the end of the line."
Ms Clark said the IT industry had put off adopting the new protocol and now the switch had become both more urgent and more difficult.
"Unfortunately, all the things we've done to stretch things out have been so effective that we haven't made a timely move across to IPv6," she said.

"At the same time much of our use has matured, and we've come to rely on the internet for our economic, educational and social lives (which) is making the switch even harder."
The companies trialling IPv6 tomorrow include Facebook, Yahoo, Google, YouTube, Cisco, Akamai and Meebo.

Hopefully, the trial will be a success — however things may get bumpy for a few web surfers.
Google said it expected about 0.5 per cent of requests to fail due to network incompatibility, while Facebook said only 0.03 per cent of its users could be affected.
Facebook also said recent studies had indicated that about one in 2000 users have trouble connecting to dual stacked websites — sites that have both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
In a post on its engineering blog earlier this year, Facebook said the adoption of IPv6 had become a "classic chicken-and-egg puzzle".

"Websites don't want to enable IPv6 because a small number of their users may have trouble connecting," it said.
"At the same time, doing nothing means that ever more users will have trouble connecting."

http://www.news.com.au/technology/dont-panic-but-the-internet-might-break-tomorrow-just-a-little-bit-and-were-sure-theyll-fix-it/story-e6frfro0-1226071115396

Facebook: DDoS attacks don't down the site, our screw-ups do

TechRadar met up with a number of Facebook engineers today, who explained the changes that were happening with the site in terms of implementing HTML 5 and how they work with the daily challenges of keeping the site upright.
One of the things mentioned was how the company works to curtail DDoS attacks, which according to Facebook happen very rarely.
"As far as I know, we have only had one or two DDoS attacks on the site," explained David Recordon, senior open programmes manager, at Facebook.
"You would need a pretty big botnet to attack us and I don't think they would want to put all their effort into downing the site and expose their ways.
"When we have site blips people think we are having an attack – it's not, it is usually us screwing up but it's fixed within an hour."
Facebook attack
To keep Facebook and its API free from attack, the site does have a number of teams in place that monitor the site for security flaws and try and fix them ad hoc.
Recordon explained that there is a "site integrity team" in place whose sole job it is to check the site for imperfections and there are other techniques being used.
"We use a combination of technology and the systems that we have built from scratch," said Recordon.
Jason Cross, the first UK-based Facebook platform engineer, told to TechRadar that there are other security measures in place, one of which is protecting its Like button functionality from click jackers.
"We have click-jacking prevention techniques that we don't talk about and we try and stop it within our code, but we also speak to browser vendors," said Cross.

"Click-jacking is a very clever hack that people are doing. There is an on-going dialogue across the whole industry to prevent this, though."
Security response
Jason Sobel, engineering manager at Facebook, explained to TechRadar that there were internal security procedures in place if the site is compromised, but there is also a reliance from external sources to let them know what is going on.
"We have a number of levels of security response," explained Sobel.
"We have a security incident team, and we get reports from white hat hackers who are trying to help us out which is great.
"We have other security glitches that aren't reported to us directly but we try and fix them within hours of them happening.
"We also have a team of internal white hats who find security holes before they are made public and this again is a massive help."
Code red
Interestingly, problems with Facebook that come from the site's code are ultimately down to the person who created it.
So an engineer, no matter how low down the chain he is, could expect a midnight call if things on the site go awry and it is their code that is causing the problems.
"There are 24/7 engineers who watch all the monitoring data we have and make sure that if there is something that crashes or there are unusual trends on the site, we can fix them," said Sobel.
"If they don't know how to fix it, then we have app operations who know how to solve a vast number of problems. But the last resort is that we phone the engineer who created the code in the middle of the night to sort it."
Cross, who recently came back from a Facebook boot camp where he created some code for the site's photo section, explained a bit more about the situation.
"The developer has ultimate responsibility for the code, from its inception up until it is superseded.
"So it is scary if you are that developer, but what that makes you do is write code in the right way.
"It is all about relationship and accountability."

  

http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/facebook-ddos-attacks-don-t-down-the-site-our-screw-ups-do-935088?src=rss&attr=newsintern