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Facebook and MySpace Backdoors Found, Fixed

jamie writes with news of a Facebook app developer who found a significant security hole while he was trying to get around function limitations for his application. Quoting: "Luckily — just with browser AJAX requests — a flash application... ...full story at slashdot

from slashdot on Thu, Nov 05 2009

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