Facebook through SMS not safe?

If you thought your status messages on the social networking site, Facebook, can only be updated by you or somebody who has actually hacked into your account, you need to think again. A serious vulnerability in Facebook's security allows anybody who has your mobile phone number to not only change status messages, but also add or delete friends, send out private messages to other users and upload or change profile pictures.

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PS:-Yes now i can also do this 😀

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  • Ankita Katdare
    Ankita Katdare
    This is a really important warning.
    I know a lot of people who use Facebook Mobile SMS Facilty to share status updates.
    The flaw can be abused in various ways!
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    Thank you for sharing this Goyal.
  • silverscorpion
    silverscorpion
    Well, as someone said in the link, if you can send sms under a false number, a lot more damage can be done than mere facebook account hacking..
    So, I think the real issue to be addressed is sms-spoofing.

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