Facebook Under Attack on Nov 5

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By Martin J Young HUA HIN, Thailand - Facebook fans are starting to fret about recent threats from Anonymous, the notorious hacker syndicate, to take down the world's largest social network website. In a video originally published on YouTube last month, the group stated Facebook would be targeted on November 5 for misuse of personal information. "Your medium of communication you all so dearly adore will be destroyed," a speaker, whose voice was disguised, said in the video, going on to state: "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 information stays on Facebook and can be recovered at any time." Anonymous claimed that Facebook had sold personal information that government agencies and security companies could use to spy on people. While Facebook has yet to comment on the Anonymous threats, it has claimed it does not sell or share information with any third parties without a user's prior approval. The typical method of attack by Anonymous is a distributed denial of service (DDoS), which overloads the target servers by using automated scripts from thousands of computers across the globe to make simultaneous data requests. In recent months. Anonymous has targeted online retailer Amazon for closing down WikiLeaks servers, PayPal, Mastercard, the Church of Scientology and a number of state websites in the Middle East where democracy protests have occurred. On August 8, the group replaced the Syrian Defense Ministry's website with an anti-government slogan and its own logo.

 

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