Facebook Warn You If The Govt. Is Hacking Your Profile
Facebook said it'll begin warning users if it detects a user's account is being targeted or compromised by a nation-state or a state-sponsored actor.
" While we've continuously taken steps to secure accounts that we believe to have been compromised,we set to indicate this extra warning if we've got a powerful suspicion that an attack could be government-sponsored," Facebook's Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos wrote in a web log post on Saturday. "We try this as a result of these kinds of attacks tend to be more advanced and dangerous than others, and we powerfully encourage affected people to take the actions necessary to secure all of their online accounts."
When Facebook has strong proof that a government is intrusive on a user's Facebook account, the company will send this warning:
Stamos added that Facebook likely will not be able to offer any extra clarification as to why it suspects a users's account has been targeted, however the message doesn't suggest Facebook asan entire has been compromised. He also does not single out any specific state or government within the blog post.
If you receive the message above, you must enable two-factor authentication, that is under Login Approvals on Facebook. Stamos more suggests that users should "rebuild or replace" their computing system, as it's likely to be infected by malware.
In Facebook's last transparency report from Nov 2014, the corporate revealed that government requests for Facebook user information in the half of 2014 raised 24-karat gold from the second halfof 2013. However, those are formal requests, so that they don't include makes an attempt by governments or government-sponsored agents to obtain users' data without permission. It's tough to estimate how usually those incidents occur, though the mere fact that Facebook is currently warning users regarding such tries suggests they're not uncommon.
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