{"id":52735,"date":"2012-06-15T11:55:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T09:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=52735"},"modified":"2012-06-15T12:35:41","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T10:35:41","slug":"facebook-asks-for-your-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/52735-facebook-asks-for-your-number.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook asks for your number"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong>In an effort to up the social network\u2019s security, <a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/348566-Facebook\">Facebook<\/a> is asking users to enter their phone numbers as a security precaution.<\/p>\n<p>In the next few days, users will receive a notice that will take them to the security page of the website. Once there, users are taught how to spot a scam, choose a unique password and confirm their mobile number.<\/p>\n<p>The point of this is to counter hacked accounts or stolen passwords, as Facebook will wipe compromised passwords and immediately <a title=\"SMS - Short Message Service\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/289539-SMS-Short-Message-Service\">SMS<\/a> the victimised user a new password.<\/p>\n<p>The security boost could be seen as a result of the recent <a title=\"LinkedIn\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/384025-LinkedIn\">LinkedIn<\/a> hack, which saw thousands of user passwords being stolen.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_52739\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/52733-apple-sued-due-to-time-capsule-loss.html\/attachment\/facebook-security\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-52739\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52739\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52739\" title=\"Facebook security\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Facebook-security.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Facebook-security.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Facebook-security-100x38.jpg 100w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Facebook-security-185x70.jpg 185w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Facebook-security-250x95.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-52739\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook&#39;s security update notice<\/p><\/div>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2012\/06\/14\/facebook-security-tips\/\" target=\"_blank\">TechCrunch<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/52599-samsung-to-take-on-facebook.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Samsung to take on Facebook<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Facebook game craze wanes, Zynga shares dive\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/52489-facebook-game-craze-wanes-zynga-shares-dive.html\">Facebook game craze wanes, Zynga shares dive<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Facebook\u2019s growth is slowing\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/52393-facebooks-growth-is-slowing.html\">Facebook\u2019s growth is slowing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Samsung introduces TecTiles for Galaxy\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/52539-samsung-introduces-tectiles-for-galaxy.html\">Samsung introduces TecTiles for Galaxy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Users\u2019 phone numbers wanted for security boost<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340900,"featured_media":50879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[161,12563,12561],"class_list":["post-52735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-facebook","tag-facebook-number-request","tag-facebook-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}