karl
August 19th, 2013, 06:51 AM
Palestinian hacker Khalil Shreateh discovered a glitch that allows anyone to post to a stranger's Facebook wall
After Facebook ignored a report of the bug Shreateh sent, the hacker posted to Zuckerberg's wall and got a speedy response
But Facebook won't pay the normal $500 bounty to Shreatah because they say his intrusive methods broke the rules
A hacker from Palestine found a Facebook glitch that allowed anyone to post on a stranger’s wall, but when the company ignored his warnings he took them all the way to the top by posting about the issue on Mark Zuckerberg’s wall.
Khalil Shreateh first contacted the Facebook security team after proving the glitch was real by writing on the wall of a friend of the Facebook founder.
But instead of thanking him and fixing the issue, Facebook said it wasn’t a bug. And because of the methods Shreateh used to finally convince them of the threat, Facebook later denied him the reward usually given to programmers who report holes in the site’s security.
‘My name is Khalil Shreateh. I finished school with B.A degree in Information Systems . I would like to report a bug in your main site (www.facebook.com) which i discovered it...The bug allow Facebook users to share links to other facebook users , I tested it on Sarah.Goodin wall and I got success post.’
Shreateh, whose first language is Arabic, lives in Palestine and is in no way connected with Zuckerberg’s fellow Harvard alum Goodin. He hoped his ability to post to her page, nonetheless, would help prove his case to Facebook security.
See full story here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2396628/Security-expert-hacks-Mark-Zuckerbergs-Facebook-page-expose-site-vulnerability-listen-warnings-glitch.html#ixzz2cPnF7PQ3
After Facebook ignored a report of the bug Shreateh sent, the hacker posted to Zuckerberg's wall and got a speedy response
But Facebook won't pay the normal $500 bounty to Shreatah because they say his intrusive methods broke the rules
A hacker from Palestine found a Facebook glitch that allowed anyone to post on a stranger’s wall, but when the company ignored his warnings he took them all the way to the top by posting about the issue on Mark Zuckerberg’s wall.
Khalil Shreateh first contacted the Facebook security team after proving the glitch was real by writing on the wall of a friend of the Facebook founder.
But instead of thanking him and fixing the issue, Facebook said it wasn’t a bug. And because of the methods Shreateh used to finally convince them of the threat, Facebook later denied him the reward usually given to programmers who report holes in the site’s security.
‘My name is Khalil Shreateh. I finished school with B.A degree in Information Systems . I would like to report a bug in your main site (www.facebook.com) which i discovered it...The bug allow Facebook users to share links to other facebook users , I tested it on Sarah.Goodin wall and I got success post.’
Shreateh, whose first language is Arabic, lives in Palestine and is in no way connected with Zuckerberg’s fellow Harvard alum Goodin. He hoped his ability to post to her page, nonetheless, would help prove his case to Facebook security.
See full story here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2396628/Security-expert-hacks-Mark-Zuckerbergs-Facebook-page-expose-site-vulnerability-listen-warnings-glitch.html#ixzz2cPnF7PQ3