Facebook flaw bypasses password protections

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Jack

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BBC News said:
Facebook has moved quickly to shut down a loophole which made some accounts accessible without a password.

The bug was exposed in a message posted to the Hacker News website.

The message contained a search string that, when used on Google, returned a list of links to 1.32 million Facebook accounts.

In some cases clicking on a link logged in to that account without the need for a password. All the links exposed the email addresses of Facebook users.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20180229
 

MalwareVirus

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Facebook needs to think about their security,they are infected 15 -16 days before too(mobile varification vulnerability)
 

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Funny how it's always Facebook having those problems.
 
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