{"id":53055,"date":"2012-06-20T09:18:53","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T07:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=53055"},"modified":"2012-06-20T09:20:35","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T07:20:35","slug":"facebook-twitter-account-hack-detailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/53055-facebook-twitter-account-hack-detailed.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook, Twitter account hack detailed"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/strong>An exploit in the Facebook<\/a>-owned Face.com mobile app, KLIK, has been fixed after a researcher found that it could be used to hijack Facebook and Twitter<\/a> accounts.<\/p>\n

The KLIK app lets people tag faces in photos using Facebook.<\/p>\n

The security hole was found by Ashkan Soltani, a privacy and security researcher, who claimed the hack allowed anyone to gain access to private Facebook photos.<\/p>\n

“The above attack not only allows access to non-public photos, but also lets the attacker potentially manipulate the Face.com app to automatically ‘recognize’ anyone walking down the street (i.e just hijack Lady Gaga’s account and get her ~11 million friends’ ‘face prints’),” Soltani said on his blog.<\/p>\n

“Since KLIK relies on Facebook connect, that means anyone that has used the app was vulnerable,” he continued.<\/p>\n

The problem was caused by Face.com\u2019s insecure storage of Facebook and Twitter OAUTH authorization tokens.<\/p>\n

Read the full story at: Cnet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Related articles:<\/h3>\n

Facebook stock bouncing back<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Facebook to buy facial-recognition startup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Facebook settles R82.7 million lawsuit<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A security hole which could result in Facebook and Twitter accounts being hacked has been plugged<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":48486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[12687,12651,161,12689,405],"class_list":["post-53055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-ashkan-soltani","tag-face-com","tag-facebook","tag-klik","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53055"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53057,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53055\/revisions\/53057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}