This rumored destruction of Facebook by Anonymous is not supposed to happen until Nov. 5, and though it's not readily apparent why that date was selected, it's worth noting that Nov. 5 is the traditional in Great Britain. Also called Bonfire Night, it commemorates how Fawkes in 17th century England was convicted and put to death for plotting to kill King James I in the "Gunpowder Plot." It's celebrated with effigies of Fawkes hung and burned on a bonfire. Is Anonymous thinking of treating Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg like this?

Whatever you think of Anonymous, panelists at the recent conference said the attacking its targets just shows that corporate security isn't that great. One security vendor took Facebook to task this week, saying the social-networking giant if Anonymous is going after it.

SECURITY BACKGROUND:

Hacking got political in the eyes of a Taiwanese political party that said it suspects the Chinese government is behind a that stole information about the party's election activities. Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party last week said it traced attacks to China's Xinhua News Agency, the state-run press group. Now it's news employees doing the hacking? Well, seems that was why Great Britain's tabloid News of the World (not state-run, so far as we know) .

We were reminded this week that security holes comes in all shapes and sizes, such as USB devices, according to the Ponemon Institute survey of more than 700 IT and security managers and their in their organizations.