Informatics students discover, alert Facebook to threat allowing access to private data, bogus messaging
Thursday, February 3, 2011 - 18:00
in Mathematics & Economics
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Facebook security vulnerability discovered by a pair of doctoral students at Indiana University Bloomington's School of Informatics and Computing that allowed malicious websites to uncover a visitor's real name, access their private data and post bogus content on their behalf has been repaired, Facebook has confirmed.