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More than 1MM Facebook accounts exposed

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Re: More than 1MM Facebook accounts exposed

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Here's one theory and analysis of what might have happened. Some people's emails got out into the public internet, and were indexed. Some of these emails were from Facebook, and included links to resources that require login. These links pre-populated the username field for convenience, or in some cases auto-login the user. Facebook's engineers probably did not anticipate email notifications to users being crawled by…

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Re: More than 1MM Facebook accounts exposed

#33
post #26

Facebook's privacy settings have a ton of bugs. Here's another one: 1. Make a stupid status update post. 2. It appears in all your friends newsfeed. 3. You realize you said something stupid and private. 4. Panic. Delete post 5. Breathe sigh of relief that it is no longer showing up in your profile. 6. But wait a minute! It still keeps showing up in all your friends newsfeed. 7. Now that you deleted the post, you can'…

to be fair, cache invalidation is hard.

And naming things.

Re: More than 1MM Facebook accounts exposed

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post #30

You think this is bad. Try doing the following google search: "password" filetype:csv

this is an entire category of attack, and it is really useful. there have been a number of worms that use google queries to find targets to propagate.

there are also a number of info query tools that do similar.

over 3000+ Google queries categorized in exploit-db:

http://www.exploit-db.com/google-dorks/

Re: More than 1MM Facebook accounts exposed

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Facebook's privacy settings have a ton of bugs. Here's another one: 1. Make a stupid status update post. 2. It appears in all your friends newsfeed. 3. You realize you said something stupid and private. 4. Panic. Delete post 5. Breathe sigh of relief that it is no longer showing up in your profile. 6. But wait a minute! It still keeps showing up in all your friends newsfeed. 7. Now that you deleted the post, you can'…

I suppose they made it work the same as email. Once you sent something you can't take it back, but you can delete your copy if you want.
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