Ellen Messmer over at CIO.com lays out the situation clearly:

Even as the shadowy hacker group Anonymous threatens to take on the mighty social-networking site Facebook, claiming the group will ‘kill’ Facebook on Nov. 5, some researchers are criticizing Facebook security, saying it could be better.

Mandeep Khera, chief marketing officer at security firm Cenzic, criticizes Facebook’s password system, which is only six characters minimum and “takes 30 seconds to crack.” He also faults Facebook for not having SSL on for the initial user registration. “This can be sniffed by anyone.”

Anonymous has followed through on threats made in the past, so threats from the group are not to be taken likely. Regardless, this is a great reminder to beef up passwords for all of your social networking profiles.

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