Wednesday 21 August 2013

FACEBOOK CEO MARK ZUCKERBERG'S FACEBOOK PAGE GOT HACKED

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 posting on 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. On his blog, Shreateh posted a series of e- mails he said were exchanged between him and Facebook security. After the first one, a Facebook employee responded that the link he attached was bad.
Shreateh had included a post -- an Enrique Iglesias video -- he says he posted on the page of a woman who went to college with Zuckerberg. He speculated that Facebook's
security team couldn't see it because they weren't on her Friends list. Somebody buy Mark Zuckerberg some clothes
Facebook responded to his second message to say theissue he was reporting was not a bug. His response: "ok that means I have no choice other than report this to mark himself on facebook."

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