homepage CEO of online social network Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg hacked by an expert who wanted to demonstrate a flaw in the computer security group and hoped to draw a salary.
Facebook regularly pays the experts who warn of security holes, but the Palestinian researcher Shreateh Khalil, who wanted to attract the attention of the group after the preceding contacts had been ignored, passed the red line by taking on page Mark Zuckerberg.
Khalil Shreateh said on his blog that he had found a way to circumvent IT security group and change the items posted on the page of a user’s social network.
It shows it was first posted a video of Enrique Iglesias on the wall of Sarah Goodin, a college friend of Mark Zuckerberg. After informing the group of the manipulation, and after seeing his remarks ignored by security teams in the group, he posted a message directly to the page of Mark Zuckerberg.
Account disabled“Dear Mark Zuckerberg, I’m sorry to have violated the privacy of your page and have posted a message on your wall, but I had no other choice after all reports (to indicate a security) that I sent to the Facebook team, “wrote Khalil Shreateh.
” I’m Khalil, I just Palestine, “adds he says. In response, Facebook immediately disabled the account of the individual and sent him a message informing him that the group could not pay for exposing a computer fault, accusing him of “violating the terms and services” group in hacking network pages.
Sunday, a safety engineer at Facebook, Matt Jones, wrote a computer security forum that the problem described by Khalil was Shreateh “set on Thursday,” but admitting that his team should “ask (the Palestinian expert) more details soon.”
A spokesman for Facebook said to AFP that Facebook had “not ignored reports” Khalil Shreateh but it did not provide “sufficient detail” and that the group’s policy is clear on the fact that “this is never acceptable to show bugs on
non-consenting users pages “network. (With AFP)
