The security company Israeli Check Point Software Technologies revealed Tuesday as part of its annual Cyber Day 2016 details of a serious vulnerability in the Messenger service Facebook that allowed information hackers ( Hackers ) handle messaging service conversations and even delete messages, photos, files or links.
data: Facebook Messenger has 900 million active users and a universe of 50 million companies registered in their service
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hackers can falsify, alter or conceal important information (including your conversation history) communications Facebook chat that could have legal repercussions because these chats can be admitted as evidence in investigations legal. This vulnerability opens the door for an attacker to hide evidence or even incriminate an innocent person.
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This vulnerability can even be used as a vehicle for the transmission of malware . An attacker can replace a legitimate link by one malicious and easily persuade the user to open the file.
Director of Research Exploit products at Check Point, Oded Vanunu said: “By exploiting this vulnerability, cybercriminals could change a complete chat without the victim noticing. And what is worse, the hacker could implement automation techniques to outdo security measures and chat to alter the long-term. ”
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Meanwhile, Facebook through a statement argued that the failure was due to a configuration problem in the Messenger heightened risk because only allowed to alter the content of messages sent by oneself.
The security company in early June was the one who informed Facebook about the leak user privacy so that the vulnerability was attacked and resolved “immediately”, although it involved a change system infrastructure.
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