Facebook devs HACKED in 'sophisticated' Java zero-day attack Facebook has been hacked, but the company has found no evidence that user data was affected. Facebook's systems were "targeted in a sophisticated attack" in January after some of the company's developers visited a mobile-developer website that had been compromised, the company wrote on Friday afternoon. Malware was installed …
Whatever Andrew Orlowski might have to say about Rory Cellan-Jones, he's no worse than LBC radio in London, who have just reported on their news bulletin that Facebook has been infected by a new virus called "Zero Day"...
I can imagine that attacking Facebook through its public interfaces is not a great idea.
However, targeting company laptops of specific employees is probably a far better idea, most notably for Governments and other Industrial Spies. It's just a matter of selecting the appropriate employees.
When Sony got hacked and had no proof of what, if anything got accesed, they were advised to assume the worst, and the media tore them apart.
When Facebook for hacked, they assumed the best, and the media are all forgiving of it.
The media are pretty irresponsible, Sony didn't really do that much wrong, they stored their credicard details fully encrypted, they stored passwords are salts, and the only things stored in plain text were user's personal info like Name/Address. That's no difference to every other company on the planet....
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