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Come on Chris, ask your boss for a hundred bucks and try the service and tell us if it works. You can do this without breaking the law by hacking an account you have permission to, like a co-worker, or your own.

How about you tell us what the site is a we'll try it?

It should be really easy to tell if it works or not.

what's up with PandaLabs? they couldn't set up a few FaceBook accounts and try the worst of this, the spreading malware thing. I mean damn, is that how they do the rest of their testing? Not exactly fostering confidence. the whole project would take a few days and cost a few hundred bucks, including labor.

NICE IDEA, NEW CONCEPT,NEW WAY

may i know your cp,please send an email.tq before..

I believe that anything online can be hacked. FB just makes it easier for the hackers, because everything is already gathered on profile pages. Sure, we can set our FB security settings, but what good will it do if a hacker can get in and retrieve our passwords and other personal info in just under five minutes? Obviously, FB is there for its own earning potential, it's not there to protect its users. They claim to be "working" on improvements, but they are only working on promotion as far as I can tell. Great marketing department, perhaps it now can be considered false advertising, since it's really luring innocent victims (albeit per their own stupidity) to be set up for more online vulnerability.

The other thing that amazes me however, are the stupid things that people will post on FB. They are exposing family members in pics, and putting out information about personal schedules, what they are doing, where and when they are doing it, and in many of those pics, all their personal belongings are showing in backgrounds of their pictures. A savvy thief could be watching and waiting for these folks to announce that they are going on vacation. This can be more than just an identity theft issue, it can bring the bad guys and hackers physically into the house. Given the choice, it's not good either way.

FB is scary to me. I don't trust it as far as I can throw it. It's actually a great connection tool, but too bad it leaves most of its users very vulnerable to attack from many different directions. And, I won't even get into the psyche problems this is nurturing. I'm sure the online addiction rate has skyrocketed with this stuff, not to mention the incredible amount of time and energy that is now being wasted, especially with folks who are supposed to be working or studying. People just do not have the knowledge anymore or the discipline to control their time with such a tool.

I do believe that FB takes certain liberties with our information but, hey, change the setting to 'friends only". I don't like that I can read what my friends write on other friends walls, I don't like the language that is used and some of the 'group' pages and 'gift' pages are downright disgusting. Guess what, I don't join those groups or send those gifts. Yes, I think FB should protect us against hackers but as a reader previously commented, it is all in the public domain - UNLESS YOU CHANGE YOUR SETTING!

Why doesn't facebook simply create a account, pay $100, check all the logs to see how (if) they hack the account. And then create countermeasures.
At least that's what I would try.

Thank you for your sharing.Tiffany
Tiffany 1837

that bring out the anti-social networking crazies, the anti-internet crazies (which are a truly pathetic and hypocritical group), the alarmists, and the misinformed...

I'm not saying that the article is wrong but all of you who post here and say social networking is a waste of time, that people who use social networking are losers, who say "what's wrong with using a telephone" (as for THAT one, I'm pretty sure that when telephones first became a household item there were those tiresome hidebound old windbags who asked "what's wrong with writing a letter?"... the more things change...) I mean come on! If YOU don't want to use social networking, then GET OFF OF THIS FORUM! Yes indeed, this very forum you have pontificated in about the evils of social networking is indeed a social networking site... anytime an internet site allows user comments it's a form of social interaction on the internet - those of you who say social networking is a waste of time guess what your hypocritical sorry butt did instead of training for a triathalon? Hmmm, so who is the loser now?

There are some legitimate concerns that some have brought up but by and large all some people have done here is rant about how evil social networking is rather than say anything bad about the jerks who have this hacking site. And me, I'm just here to point out the hypocrites.

Are you serious? Security on social networking sites? You don't need to hack what is already publicly available. What do you expect when you put personal info on the Web for thousands of "friends" to see. Besides, FB defaults to "share my info with everyone" and the "give us access to your address book so we can help you find your friends" is an option many unknowingly choose.

Call me square but social networking sites are for students, slackers, or celebrities' publicists ("wow, ashton kucher has a trillion followers!!"). Between work, hobbies (triathlons, not online gaming), and family who has time to dick around with vanity sites. Losers deserve what they get.

For the money a lot people is going crazy and think short, They hacking FB because there is a chance to hack, and feel proud what their did. They don't think that social community is more than important than $100.

One of the emerging problems will be the single sign on identity protocol that more SM sites are adopting.
You store one userid and password at the SSO site and use it to register userid/password at supporting sites.
While convenient it provides a single point of attack.
It is part of MSFT/Yahoo/Google initiative and plays a big role in Open Social APIs that allows one app to work on any site that supports OSAPI.

Another FB problem is the scanners that pull your public profile data and links to your friends.
These spiders collect what is exposed to create a virtual image of you and your network.
If these spiders also get your userid/password, they can crawl all websites with user login features that also support SSO.
There is a good chance that they will either match on uid or password or both.

The best solution is to create an alternate persona (different name) and use this for SM site registration and never use the same password.

I don't post anything I wouldn't want the world to see. Why would anyone post anything private on a site like FB?

From everything I had heard about it from other people, I had decided it was NOT for me!
Which turned out to be a good decision! I don't believe anything is too safe!