Facebook Glitch Let Spammer Post To Walls 63
angry tapir writes "A clever spammer found a glitch in Facebook's photo upload system and used it to post thousands of unwanted Wall messages last week. Facebook confirmed the bug Friday, after notifying affected users of the issue. Most of the messages promised 'Free iPhones,' a common spam message on Facebook these days. Facebook says that the spammer hit thousands of profiles before the company removed the spammy photos and notified affected users. No accounts were compromised as a result of the bug."
Re:Facebook is cancer (Score:3, Interesting)
Nah, Geocities had a few quite useful sites by people interested in sharing information but with little care for web site maintenance per se.
Facebook, OTOH, has never offered any useful information to anyone.
This vulnerability is about as shocking as hearing that some bathroom/toilet stalls don't have graffiti-proof paint on them. And as disappointing in terms of humour loss from an otherwise drab experience when someone does something about it.
Why do people post Explicite details in info? (Score:5, Interesting)
With the non-stop assault on facebook by every hacker on the planet I have to ask one simple question.
Why do people put every single tidbit of info possible into the info section of their profile?
It's going to get grabbed at some point. No matter how careful you are. Either Facebook is going to change the privacy controls again, opening up another flood gate or a hack is going to allow total access to data.
I regrettably accept the fact that social networking is here to stay. No matter how satanic some of you think it is, it is now a fixture in our lives. But as in the real world I at least use some degree of caution while I use it. Do I have perfect protection. Of course not. No one does. You can get mugged in a police station these days. So no protection is perfect. But good lord some people are just begging to get electronically raped.
For example real time geo updates to your current location + putting in your address into the info tab and having no privacy settings.
This parent post is just a simple example of a breach.
typo squatter (Score:4, Interesting)
The other day I accidentally went to facebok.com. It was pretty obviously a typo squat, but what was more alarming was that the fake survey they provided had some correct information filled out (age, sex, etc..) Try it with and without cookies and it seems that that info is stored either locally or via the advertiser information sharing.