New Research Shows Facebook’s URL Scanner Is Vulnerable To Cloaking

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GabiCRX

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"Members of a hacking think-tank called Blackhat Academy claim that Facebook’s URL scanning systems can be tricked into thinking malicious pages are clean by using simple content cloaking techniques."

Facebook seems to have big problems in URL scanning !

More details here:
http://www.darknet.org.uk/2011/10/new-research-shows-facebooks-url-scanner-is-vulnerable-to-cloaking/
 

jamescv7

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Main problem so every users may trick easily until they struck to an unknown website. Hopefully for Facebook that partnered to Websense it would pretty much effective.
 
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