http://news.techworld.com/security/3280301/researcher-hacks-facebook-to-expose-rivals-private-photographs/ By John E Dunn Techworld 17 May 11 An Australian security researcher has compromised Facebook security in the most personal way imaginable, publically ‘hacking’ private photographs posted to the service by the wife of a disliked rival security professional. The declared intention of Christian Heinrich’s session 'For God Your Soul... For Me Your Flesh', presented to a reported 20 attendees of the Australian Security B-Sides conference, was to expose the weakness of Facebook’s privacy settings. Controversially, the IT contractor chose to prove his point by accessing private photographs posted to the social media site by the wife of a man he is reported to dislike, HackLabs director Chris Gatford. Heinrich’s ‘hack’ took seven days and involved guessing the URL of private Facebook images stored by Facebook using a separate content delivery network (CDN), which in his view represents a major security weakness for anyone posting personal data to the site. He was also able to hack into the couple’s private images on Flickr. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Tegatai Managed Colocation: Four Provider Blended Tier-1 Bandwidth, Fortinet Universal Threat Management, Natural Disaster Avoidance, Always-On Power Delivery Network, Cisco Switches, SAS 70 Type II Datacenter. Find peace of mind, Defend your Critical Infrastructure. http://www.tegataiphoenix.com/Received on Wed May 18 2011 - 01:48:11 PDT
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