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.

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