Facebook wanted to know just how secure its site was, so it had its employees try to break into some of its own accounts. Facebook took notice of the slap that the FCC gave to Twitter when that company had its administration accounts compromised. But in what is being described as a semi-break in, the folks at Facebook are stating that all is well with their security system.

Facebook engineer Pedram Keyani, who was behind the challenge, stated this:

I’m the engineer who made the challenge and I want to clear up some misunderstandings. First, we perform tests on the integrity and security of our site all the time. Second, in this particular case, the challenge demonstrated the effectiveness of Facebook’s security systems, not the opposite, Despite months of work and hundreds of hours of effort by a teamof specialized security engineers, the team was NOT able to access Facebook’s administrative or corporate systems. While they were able to
access my personal Facebook account, they were not able to use this information to access any other account on Facebook. Finally, challenges like this are a great way for us to apply our best thinking and skills to identify risks to our systems. We think our efforts should give users greater confidence in Facebook and its administrative systems, not less.

From what Pedram Keyani states, the Facebook system would in fact be secure. But what do you think?

Do you feel safe using Facbook?

Comments welcome.

Source – TechCrunch