Soon, each network user of Facebook will be greeted with a
notification message, which asked to provide a valid phone number. The
action taken for reasons of security, is designed to prevent potentially
dangerous situations in which a hacker manages to hijack and change
user account password to block the victim’s own profile page.
Among others, the link above the News Feed section will provide a
training guide for users to choose passwords safe and timely
identification of fraud attempts, which may inadvertently provide access
to account information on Facebook.
The emergency phone number can be used to reset the password if the
user account is not accessible through Facebook ordinary means. The new
security measure is taken to ensure a backup solution for large scale
attack that hit the LinkedIn network, the identification data for not
less than 6.5 million user accounts were published on the Internet.
In this situation, administrators can take to lock preventive
Facebook user accounts compromised, thus preventing unauthorized access.
Every Facebook user has supplied before the telephone number would then
receive an SMS with a new password to access, randomly generated.
Other voices say, however, that Facebook administrators merely
exploit people’s fears about security issues related to other social
networks to create a database of phone numbers of users
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