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Facebook Reveals Internet Security Methods

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Mark Melin
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Can Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) teach the likes of Target Corporation (NYSE:TGT), The Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE:HD), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) and other major corporations who have been hacked a thing or two about computer security?

Facebook revealed its data security methods today and it spotlights a system that is both proactive and reactive. The security system has in place elements that prevent access to sensitive data, but if a hacker were to get into the system, their ability to de-code encrypted sensitive user name and password data may make such hacks useless.

Facebook Reveals Internet Security Methods

Facebook encrypts sensitive information

The apparent innovative key to Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB)’s security system,...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.