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Facebook buys black market passwords for user account safety

posted onNovember 10, 2016
by l33tdawg

Facebook is buying passwords that hackers sell on the black market in order to keep user accounts safe.

The social networking giant will cross-reference the purchased black market passwords with encrypted passwords used on the site.

Speaking at the Web Summit 2016 technology conference in Lisbon, Portugal, Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos said that more than 1.3 billion people use Facebook every day, and keeping them safe is a huge task. Stamos said there is a difference between security and safety. While security focuses on building attack-proof software with less or zero vulnerabilities for attackers to exploit, safety is larger than that.

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