Secret is not revealed but Facebook’s flaw is repaired
By Gina on April 14, 2011 | Vulnerabilities, Facebook flaw, Facebook vulnerability, reset bug, Hotmail account
Recently Turkish security researcher Serkan Gencel discovered a flaw that created a mechanism for cybercriminals to support Facebook passwords for user’s Hotmail account as well.
This was privately reported to Facebook by Serkan Gencel himself. However, he remains enigmatic and Facebook can only say that they already fixed the flaw by following Turkish security researcher‘s instructions.
The vulnerability was characterized as reset bug which enabled Facebook users to use their account‘s password that was linked to Hotmail account. For this cybercriminals were getting Facebook accounts passwords of victims that were logged in to their Hotmail accounts.
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