NEWS ANALYSIS: Two incidents late last week illustrate what Facebook is doing right and what it is doing wrong to secure its hundreds of millions of users.
Facebook is one of the world's most popular social networking destinations and a favorite target for hackers and security researchers alike. Two incidents this past week demonstrate the breadth and the limitations of Facebook's current security model.In the Mark Zuckerberg Facebook Wall attack, security researcher Khalil Shreateh reported that he found a flaw and alerted Facebook. Shreateh alleges that Facebook ignored his report, so he was left with no other recourse than to demonstrate his flaw by publicly attacking Zuckerberg's Facebook wall.
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