Facebook Blocks 600,000 Logins Each Day

Facebook recently released an info graphic boasting about itself during National Cybersecurity Awarness Month, showing an intricate pathway of all the features that protect its users.

Compared to email, of which 89 percent is spam, Facebook states 4 percent of content shared on its site is spam. It also brings up this interesting little tidbit: Only 0.06 percent of more than 1 billion logins per day are compromised. What does this mean? According to a Facebook representative, this means 600,000 logins are blocked per day as a preventative measure -- that's one every 140 milliseconds.

Facebook acknowledges in its blog post that "there is plenty more work to be done." One step it has taken is introducing a new security feature called "Trusted Friends." According the blog post, this feature would help you verify your identity if you ever got locked out of your account and didn't have access to your email. Facebook would send codes to the friends you pick, which they send to you. Mashable points out that this is an added security measure if your email is compromised too and that codes coming from your friends verified your identity than the usual "Forgot Your Password" email. But, then again, Naked Security notes that your Facebook hacker could change your "trusted friends" too.

Care to see a dramatized example of what can happen when someone does get ahold of your Facebook login? Check this Blaze article out.

In response to privacy issues surrounding Facebook and frustration with endless redesigns, a new anti-Facebook social media website,"Unthink", has formed. Unthink, which The Blaze reported about on Wednesday, hopes to unseat Facebook of its 800 million users.

This post has been updated for clarity. The post originally stated that 600,000 accounts were compromised each day. Facebook has clarified stating that this many account are blocked each day.

[H/T Gawker]