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Huge Vulnerabilities In Facebook Chat and Messenger Exploitable With Basic HTML
An anonymous reader writes: Check Point's security research team has discovered vulnerabilities in Facebook's standard online Chat function, as well as Messenger app. The vulnerabilities, if exploited, would allow anyone to essentially take control of any message sent by Chat or Messenger, modify its contents, distribute malware and even insert automation techniques to outsmart security defences. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker simply needed to identify the unique ID for the sent message he or she is targeting.According to the report, Facebook, in conjunction with Check Point's researchers, patched the vulnerability earlier this month.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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