Facebook Enhances Security Measures

Facebook enhances security measures

Following the promise to improve online security during the March conference at the White House, this Tuesday Facebook announced the launch of updated version of Family Safety Center (Center for Family Safety). In addition, the network has improved recently introduced tools to control communities, as well as complicated options of login.

Family Safety Center provides parents and teens with needed information about online security and the right to privacy. Also in this section has information for teachers and study materials on Facebook, in the context of legal requirements for information. Whatever it was, the Center for Family Safety does not raise the issue that many parents ignore the rules of Facebook and allow children under the age of 13 years to have accounts in the social network.

Among the resources to help Facebook users to recognize and respond to online bullying, there appeared a social reporting tool (the button “Report”). Facebook introduced a mechanism, enabling to “Report” in March. With the help of it Facebook users and community members can inform administrators about the harmful and dangerous, from their point of view, photos. Also, this innovation allows you to block messages from a user whose messages are unpleasant for you. With regard to innovations of Tuesday, the opportunity to complain now applies also on profiles, pages and groups.

Facebook also runs a kind of two-factor authentication. Facebook users can now connect 2 options under Settings / Account Security, and then when you authorize a new mobile device / computer system will send them sms or email confirmation to the e-mail. Recently, some semblance of this system was introduced by Google, but in case it is necessary to re-log in within 30 days.

Trying to rid the social network from the risk of data interception, Facebook has improved its work with HTTPS. Now, if a user runs an application under the unencrypted protocol HTTP, then as soon as he leaves the application, HTTPS is enabled again (assuming that HTTPS originally worked). This policy does not make the job safer by HTTP, but minimizes the possibility of losing from a secure session.

While many Facebook users support this innovation, many of those who left a comment  about it, ask Facebook to go for more serious measures – to put the default HTTPS.