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Facebook new Vulnerability, Lots of Accounts misused for spamming !

Author: Mohit Kumar onSunday, March 06, 2011
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Facebook new Vulnerability, Lots of Accounts misused for Spamming
Facebook New Vulnerability, This time Facebook Groups are Vulnerable , One by one we getting more on more bugs in Facebook. Last days their was lots of bugs in Facebook page, because of that lots of big pages got hacked, Now 1000's of facebook profiles are misused to do spam on facebook groups.


Total Exposure : 
The current bug allows you to post as any user whose email address you know. You don’t need any other user access, no password nothing. The only two things you’ll need are:


1.) User’s email address (from their facebook profile).
2.) A group email address of which user is a part ( on groups’ homepage).


Final Hack : After you have both these details send a spoofed mail from user to group email and bang it will be posted from user’s profile without any need of password.


Notice : We have already submit this bug to facebook authorities, Hope they will fix it ,as soon as possible ! 
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aka 'Unix Root' is Founder and Editor-in-chief of 'The Hacker News'. He is a Security Researcher and Analyst, with experience in various aspects of Information Security. Other than this : He is an Internet Activist, Strong supporter of Anonymous & Wikileaks. Follow him @ Twitter | LinkedIn | | | Facebook Profile