Facebook Security Flaw Disclosed
Delj, Fri Sep 28 2018, 12:11PM
Facebook Inc has discovered a security flaw affecting about 50 million user accounts which could have allowed attackers to take over the accounts, the social networking company said on Friday.
Facebook has since fixed the vulnerability and informed law enforcement, it said.
Attackers stole Facebook access tokens through its "view as" feature, which they could then use to take over people's accounts. "View as" is a feature that allows users to see what their own profile looks like to someone else.
Facebook has reset the access tokens of the 50 million affected accounts, it said. As a precaution, the company has reset access tokens for another 40 million accounts that have looked up through the "view as" option in the last year.
"Since we've only just started our investigation, we have yet to determine whether these accounts were misused or any information accessed," the company said in a blog post [Click Here].
Re: Facebook Security Flaw Disclosed
MrOwl, Fri Sep 28 2018, 01:02PM
Fecesbook
Re: Facebook Security Flaw Disclosed
NShore.Allen, Fri Sep 28 2018, 04:00PM
These relevations should not come as a surprise to anyone. Facebook was designed as an open system with the intent that the user wanted his/her information shared with everyone. Only later did privacy become an issue.
There has to be thousands of back doors in that creation.
Re: Facebook Security Flaw Disclosed
Doug G, Fri Sep 28 2018, 05:32PM
Ah, facebook. I suspect a bunch of Big Bear related traffic is now on facebook rather than here, which means us old Luddite users that refuse to use facebook never see a lot of good stuff about BBL.
Re: Facebook Security Flaw Disclosed
MrOwl, Fri Sep 28 2018, 05:38PM
I will never use facebook and I can't stand all the sites that make you log in with a facebook login. I just move along!
Re: Facebook Security Flaw Disclosed
Delj, Sat Sep 29 2018, 08:04PM
Doesn't BVES post their outages on Facebook?
Delj, Fri Sep 28 2018, 12:11PM
Facebook Inc has discovered a security flaw affecting about 50 million user accounts which could have allowed attackers to take over the accounts, the social networking company said on Friday.
Facebook has since fixed the vulnerability and informed law enforcement, it said.
Attackers stole Facebook access tokens through its "view as" feature, which they could then use to take over people's accounts. "View as" is a feature that allows users to see what their own profile looks like to someone else.
Facebook has reset the access tokens of the 50 million affected accounts, it said. As a precaution, the company has reset access tokens for another 40 million accounts that have looked up through the "view as" option in the last year.
"Since we've only just started our investigation, we have yet to determine whether these accounts were misused or any information accessed," the company said in a blog post [Click Here].
Re: Facebook Security Flaw Disclosed
MrOwl, Fri Sep 28 2018, 01:02PM
Fecesbook
Re: Facebook Security Flaw Disclosed
NShore.Allen, Fri Sep 28 2018, 04:00PM
These relevations should not come as a surprise to anyone. Facebook was designed as an open system with the intent that the user wanted his/her information shared with everyone. Only later did privacy become an issue.
There has to be thousands of back doors in that creation.
Re: Facebook Security Flaw Disclosed
Doug G, Fri Sep 28 2018, 05:32PM
Ah, facebook. I suspect a bunch of Big Bear related traffic is now on facebook rather than here, which means us old Luddite users that refuse to use facebook never see a lot of good stuff about BBL.
Re: Facebook Security Flaw Disclosed
MrOwl, Fri Sep 28 2018, 05:38PM
I will never use facebook and I can't stand all the sites that make you log in with a facebook login. I just move along!
Re: Facebook Security Flaw Disclosed
Delj, Sat Sep 29 2018, 08:04PM
Doesn't BVES post their outages on Facebook?
