Several Facebook employees successfully hacked the password of a senior engineer as part of a challenge to test the security of the site's administrative system. In order to do it they employed an evil twin wireless attack.Last month Twitter settled with the Federal Trade Commission following an investigation into two security breaches that resulted in unauthorized individuals obtaining access to the site's administrative system. Both incidents occurred in early 2009 and involved the compromise of accounts belonging to Twitter employees. The first incident was the result of a classic brute force dictionary attack against a weak password (happiness), while the second was based on social engineering and involved the hacker compromising a personal email account first. As a result, the micro-blogging site was barred by the FTC for the next twenty years from misleading consumers about the extent to which it protects the security, privacy, and confidentiality of nonpublic consumer information. It was also forced to implement a comprehensive security program, that will be subject to independent audits for the next ten years.

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