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Main » 2010 November 10 » You thought Facebook was safe?
10:31 AM You thought Facebook was safe? |
 Don’t be surprised if your status message on your favourite social networking website Facebook is changed without your knowledge or your boss calls you for posting an obscene message on his account or even your photographs on the website are changed without your knowledge. A team of Ahmedabad-based Tech Defence has claimed that this is possible. The team says they have found the first-ever vulnerability on the mobile applications of Facebook. "One can change everything on the website, if the mobile number of the Facebook account holder is registered for mobile applications of the website,” said cyber expert and director of Tech Defence, Sunny Vaghela. Vaghela says that there is no need to access anyone’s password or any other details of the website account for changing the status message on the website. "All you need is the mobile number of the account holder. Once that is known, the account holder’s details on the website can be changed,” he said. Even the photographs of the person can be changed through the mobile command. Vaghela claimed that this is the first time that the vulnerability of one of the most popular social networking websites has been found. Explaining about it, Vaghela said that there is a very simple technique called ‘SMS spoofing’ that helps in doing this."Through SMS spoofing, I can use anyone else’s number to send a message to Facebook, which upon receiving the command will change the account accordingly,”he said, adding:"All I need to do is just the spoof the mobile number, use it to send SMS to Facebook, which will eventually change the account without confirming the mobile number.” Another expert and member of Tech Defence, Subhash Dasyam, said that the account can easily be hijacked. "Through SMS spoofing, I can use your number to call any other number and the number displayed on receiver’s handset screen will be yours. This is where Facebook gets confused,” he said, adding "So, if you think that you are comfortable using the mobile application of the website, think again.” Vaghela said he had written to Facebook about the vulnerability of the mobile applications of the site but had not got any answer. |
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