Researcher Could Remove All the Photo Albums On Facebook

A vulnerability in Facebook made ​​it possible to remove all photo albums of users and groups, as discovered an Indian security researcher. Developers of Facebook apps now use the Graph API (application programming interface) to read user data and write. To do this, the API has generally required an access token.

However, according to the documentation of Facebook is not possible to delete the photo albums via the Graph API.Nevertheless, attempted Laxman Muthiyah to do this, giving an error message. It said that the application you could not remove the photo album. What, according to the researcher also showed was that this could be another application.

Therefore he used a "Facebook for mobile" access token that he could remove photo albums. All that was required was the album ID of the Facebook user. Muthiyah warned Facebook and the problem was resolved within two hours. The researcher received for his mention a reward of $ 12,500. On YouTube is to find a demonstration of the vulnerability.

Facebook Launches Platform For Sharing Of Cyber Threats

Facebook has a platform launched by which Internet companies can share information about cyberthreats with other parties. The platform called Threat Exchange and is built on the existing Facebook infrastructure. Through various APIs (application programming interface) participants available threat information retrieval and delivery.

It is, for example, issues such as domains and malware instances. However, it is also possible for participants to only share certain information with other companies who are experiencing the same problems or attacks. Also you can choose to share the information only within a particular group or multiple groups. Meanwhile would Pinterest, Tumblr, Twitter and Yahoo already participate in the project and bitly and Dropbox will soon join.