Facebook founder Zuckerberg's account hacked to
prove bug exists
In order to prove that
social media giant Facebook has a security flaw that can allow people to post
on someone's wall without being in their friends' list, a security researcher
went a step ahead to prove his point and posted about the bug on the CEO's
wall.
Khalil Shreateh from
Khalil Shreateh from
Palestine initially tried
to report the bug to Facebook's security team before posting something to Sarah
Goodin's wall, a friend of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg but he was not taken
seriously till then.
Shreateh then used the
bug and posted a message on Zuckerberg's wall and explained about the flaw
which prompted immediate action and within minutes the site's security engineer
contacted him and asked for the details.
Facebook has a bounty
program where it pays people to report bugs instead of using them maliciously
but it did not pay the $US500+ fee amount to Shreateh because they cited him
violating the site's terms of service, although, they asked him to continue to
help them find bugs.
The site's security team
then later confirmed that the bug had been fixed and added that bounty was
denied because Shreateh did not include enough technical info when he tried to
report the bug, the report added.
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