Facebook Started Enabling HTTPS by Default for North American Users
The social networking giant Facebook has started securing all data traffic to the social networking site using HTTPS by default. The change started rolling out to all North American users last week, while users in the rest of the world should see HTTPS enabled by default soon. This change will make HTTPS the default connection option for all Facebook sessions for those users, a shift that gives them a good baseline level of security and will help prevent some common attacks. Switching to HTTPS by default will mean that all connections and data, including cookies, will be transmitted over SSL in encrypted form and should no longer be able to be easily read and used for fraudulent purposes by attackers. While Facebook has used HTTPS connections to protect users' login credentials for some time, it only started offering an HTTPS option for the entire site in January 2011. The feature was not turned on by default and instead required users to manually enable the HTTPS option in their Facebook account settings.
Facebook users have had the option of turning on HTTPS since early 2011 when the company reacted to attention surrounding the Firesheep attacks. However, the technology was not enabled by default and users have had to in and manually make the change in order to get the better protection of HTTPS.
Now, users will have to manually turn HTTPS off if they don't want it, a distinction that is a major change, especially for Facebook's massive user base, which has become a major target for attackers
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