seems like every day there are new security issues on Facebook. Yesterday saw the photograph system leaves the door open for malware distribution although it has not yet caused serious consequences beyond annoying taggeos crowded to users.
But the security hole we're talking about today could have far greater consequences, but for the "goodness" of a Turkish researcher security matters. Serkan Gecel , which is the name, realized that the passwords of Facebook users who had registered on the network using a hotmail email account and could be easily obtained by manipulating the exchange rate mechanism Facebook password.
Anyone with computer knowledge core had been aware of the vulnerability could have done with just a few clicks. Fortunately, no one did during the time that the accounts have been exposed, it is not known, and fortunately also Gecel, instead of taking advantage, simply write to Facebook and communicate to the security hole that had just found.
As soon as Facebook was aware of the vulnerability fixed the bug , so Facebook users entering the network through a hotmail email do not have to worry about from now.
However, would not hurt them to change their passwords to access network , because someone could have done with them during the time they were exposed, not much was known.
Facebook, however, has publicly thanked Gencel had not exploited the security hole and quickly alert the company. Facebook ensures that everything is resolved, something we do not doubt it, the problem is how long this security hole was viewed by hackers, and most importantly, get back to the fore the issue of the many failures of safety presented by the platform.
Source: Bits Thirteen
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