Facebook is adding new security features, which come after a pair of high-profile cracks in the site's defenses that surfaced this week.
You know it's bad when Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had his public page on his website hacked this week.
Facebook is adding new security features, which come after a pair of high-profile cracks in the site's defenses that surfaced this week.
One new mechanism is called "social authentication." To combat spam and prevent strangers from weaseling into your account, the system will sometimes show the user a friend's headshot and ask to match a name to that face.
This multiple-choice photo quiz is a new take on a common Web system called Captcha.
Older methods show a graphic of squiggly letters and asks you to type those on the keyboard. It's used for verifying that a site's user is a human being and not a computer program looking to exploit systems.
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