U.S. computer security company Symantec said Tuesday that Facebook accidentally opening the door for advertisers to access profiles, photos, chat and other private information on social network ties. Symantec found that some medals Facebook applications, in fact, the loss of access profiles, news reading, sending walls and other activities, a new key. Facebook applications are programs on the network, the first online platform for social networking.
Symantec claims that 20 million of Facebook applications, how to install games on the day. Chips were the third-party applications, including advertisers and their analysis allows the platform to send messages or personal information about me after the merger of Symantec's professional Nishant Doshi. Fortunately, these third-party access to this information is completed;, Doshi said in a blog. , We have this problem on Facebook, means that this issue has been given.
Symantec estimates that in April, nearly 100,000 applications have been the keys to the Facebook profiles. ; We believe that hundreds of thousands of years by millions of applications that can inadvertently leak out of the access token to someone else, said Doshi. Facebook has confirmed that the problem was discovered by Doshi and colleagues Symantec Candid Wuest, make computer security.
There was no reliable estimate of the number of chips that have passed since the publication of Facebook applications in 2007. After all, Facebook has taken a symbolic date can still be saved as files on other computer, Symantec warned. , Interested Facebook allows you to access your password token is not an escape big changes, says Doshi. ; Change the wrong password, equality, the locks changed on your Facebook profile.
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