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Inadequate Password Complexity Policies

Some online services have lenient password complexity policies, allowing users to create weak passwords easily. This poses a security risk: Reduced Security: Weak password complexity policies make it easier for attackers to guess passwords or use dictionary attacks. False Sense of Security: Users may perceive their accounts as more secure than they actually are when allowed to create weak passwords. To overcome this challenge, organizations should enforce strong password complexity policies that require users to create passwords with a blend of upper and lower case cultivations, numbers, and special characters. Additionally, they can encourage the use of multi-factor validation (MFA) for an added layer of security. Lack of User Education Many users lack awareness of password security best practices, leading to suboptimal password choices: Weak Password Creation: Users may not understand the importance of strong passwords or how to create them. Limited Awareness of Risks: ...
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Facebook Messenger crash: why can't I send photos and videos in the app

Again problems with social networks . The services of Instagram , Facebook and Messenger again presented problems for some users for the second time in a week.

The outage on Friday, October 8, occurred just days after the social media giant included a server update that caused a global outage of more than 7 hours.

Some users reported that social media platforms stopped working again around 2:00 p.m. (GMT-5). Facebook acknowledged the outage around 2:22 pm (GMT-5) and wrote on Twitter: “We are aware that some people are having trouble accessing our applications and products. We are working to get everything back to normal as soon as possible and we apologize for any inconvenience ”.

Web monitoring group Downdetector showed that there were more than 32,000 incidents of people reporting problems with Instagram on Friday around 2:00 p.m. (GMT-5).

A smaller number of people, more than 1,600, reported a Facebook outage, and the reports also came in around 2:00 p.m. (GMT-5).

Facebook Messenger did not appear to be as affected, with just over 800 people reporting outages. Some users reported problems with this platform and commented that it did not allow to send photos or videos.

 Downdetector showed that there were reports of incidents on Instagram, Facebook and Messenger. (Photo: Downdetector)

The outage comes four days after Facebook suffered an error during routine maintenance on its network of data centers that caused a global collapse.

It blocked access to apps for billions of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp users, further intensifying criticism of Marck Zucerberg's company.

In a blog post apologize for the disruption, Santosh Janardhan, Facebook's vice president of engineering and infrastructure, said that the collapse also affected many of Facebook's internal tools and systems that it uses in its day-to-day operations, making it difficult to fix the problem. trouble. affair.

"Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes in backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused problems that interrupted this communication " , Janardhan wrote in the publication of the blog . "This disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centers communicate, paralyzing our services," he added.

Monday's outage was the largest Downdetector has ever seen and blocked access to apps for billions of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp users.

 

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