Computer Security Breaches

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COMPUTER SECURITY BREACHES
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Introduction:...............................................................................................................................3
The incident:...............................................................................................................................3
When the attack happened?........................................................................................................3
How did the hackers get in?.......................................................................................................4
Possible solution:.......................................................................................................................4
Conclusion:................................................................................................................................5
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2COMPUTER SECURITY BREACHES
Introduction:
A security breach is one of earliest stages related to security attacks through one of
the malicious intruders, like cracker, hacker or nefarious applications. When the security
procedures, policy or/ and system are being violated, then only security breach happens. One
of the most hilarious incident happened in 2018 was Facebooks data breaches where more
than 50 million users were affected [1]. The purpose of this paper is to discuss about
computer security breaches happened in recent years. For this paper Facebook security
breaches that was happened in 2018, has been chosen.
The incident:
It is said by the Facebook that something like information of 50 million clients' were
affirmed into the danger after aggressors misused one of the weaknesses which have
permitted them for accessing into information that is individual. All of the organization
likewise to secure preventively more than 40 million extra records out of a bounty of alert. It
is said by the Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that the organization has not looked any of
the records that are traded as well as inappropriately for got into — in spite of the fact that its
initial days and which can be changed. In any case, it was said by Zuckerberg that the hackers
were utilizing Facebook designer APIs for getting some information that is similar to "name,
sexual orientation, and main residences" that are connected with a profile page of the clients
[3]. It is also said by the Facebook that it looked far-fetched that personal messages were
gotten to. No credit card data was taken from the breach. In addition, that has the ability to
change as the organization's examination proceeds.