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[ NNSquad ] Zuckerberg's Facebook page hacked to prove security flaw
Zuckerberg's Facebook page hacked to prove security flaw
http://j.mp/14PQL4t (CNN)
A Palestinian researcher posted a message on Facebook CEO Mark
Zuckerberg's page last week after he says the site's security team
didn't take his warnings about a security flaw seriously. "First,
sorry for breaking your privacy and post(ing) to your wall," wrote
Khalil Shreateh. "I (have) no other choice to make after all the
reports I sent to (the) Facebook team." Shreateh, who describes
himself as an unemployed security researcher with a degree in
information systems, said he found a hole in Facebook's systems that
let him post to any user's page, including users not on his Friends
list. Such an exploit would be a virtual gold mine for spammers, scam
artists and others seeking to take advantage of the site's roughly 1
billion users worldwide.
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--Lauren--
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