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Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook Page Hacked
dinscott writes "An unknown hacker broke into the 26-year-old internet celebrity's Facebook account and posted a bizarre message calling upon the firm to adopt a social cause. More than 1800 people 'liked' the update before Facebook took down their CEO's page. Facebook has made no public statement about how the hack occurred, possibly to save their CEO from embarrassment."
The new /. still sucks. Yeah, mod me offtopic. I'll take the karma hit for a good cause.
Something bad is coming when people are suddenly anxious to tell the truth.
Maybe he'll start taking privacy and security seriously now, but probably not.
Apparently wizard is not a legitimate career path, so I chose programmer instead.
and built up a few different anonymous networks of relationships incognito in Europe and Asia,
and came back, and realized "Shit. This network of Friends is totally useless for adding my new friends and lovers."
Then he would finally fix Facebook and make it appropriate for me to use. Until then, like all serious billionaires, celebrities, politicians, and just Renaissance men -- I'm holding out. Good luck, Mark.
... that he shot Bill Murray.
"password" or "123456"?
..not to let his computer unlocked at the office when he goes to have a piss!
Franck Martin
Avonsys
An unknown hacker broke into the 26-year-old internet celebrity's Facebook account
I don't think that's an accurate account of what happened. It was his Fan Page, not his personal page. That may or may not have been updated by him -- most likely it was some staff or fan of Zuckerberg.
My work here is dung.
does he create a list and delete your account?
*yawn* *yawn* *yawn*
Will be available soon because someone will get fired today... I can tell you that...
Nom de dieu de putain de bordel de merde de saloperie de connard d encule de ta mere.
HA HA!
Maybe god wasn't a good choice of passwords for the superuser account? He should have read the memo.
The next thing that needs to be hacked and improved is /.
I can't even imagine what can be done to the site at this point to make it any more ugly and less user friendly.
You can't invent anything better than BBS for this type of a system anyway.
You can't handle the truth.
A few hours ago, many people were tweeting of a Facebook status update from someone called Roy Castillo appearing on their Facebook Wall. Could this be related?
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Suffer you brat!
Aww man this is just too good.
I hate to be mean, but I hate Facebook even more. What an ass Zuckerberg is and so are the doofs that use facebook. Say goodbye to your privacy you plebian uneducated dolts.
its open source, Patches accepted.
Accepted where? By whom? Should I mail them to support@slashdot.org?
Something bad is coming when people are suddenly anxious to tell the truth.
the guys a schmuck anyway !
Or they could just get off their lazy asses and actually fix bugs rather than just throwing more and more Web 2.0 junk on the site. Major, and hugely obvious, bugs like that should have never been pushed into production.
..no matter how much security you try to put around something, someone else can always get around it. That's the nature of the game and I hope it never changes.
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Kudos to the person that "hacked" it. what a better way to highlight the security problems with facebook than to target the head cheese.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
the Facebook page of french president Nicolas Sarkozy was hacked twice in a row. (see http://translate.google.fr/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.liberation.fr%2Fpolitiques%2F01012316015-la-page-facebook-de-sarkozy-a-nouveau-piratee&act=url)
Is there a little-known vulnerability being exploited again and again, or what?
I get spammed by those "Causes" people all the time!
I went to battle M.C. Escher, but drew a blank.
All they need to do is create "citizen council groups" organized by zip code or something, put everyone inside one, set some default topics such as health and education or public representative responsiveness, and they're done.
Build your own energy sources from scratch. http://otherpower.com/
This is also what I think of entropy of most "security question" methods used to reset passwords. This video sums it up succinctly:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JNGI1dI-e8
On topic: He can be phished or bypassed just like 99% of the networked populations... Off topic/with parent: I can't see any stories on the front page. I got here from my igoogle gadget because that's the only place I can read the headlines. IE8 (at the office so no way of changing) if that helps.
Scott Adams has depicted them in so many ways...
Open Source Network Inventory for the masses! Kuwaiba
How are we sure Slashdot hasn't been hacked.
Go ahead and mod this down, karma be damned... this is disconcerting.
One of my associates manages the Facebook page of a local baseball team. A while back, they started getting iPhone spam posted to their team's Facebook page. No one could tell why. He was changing passwords, taking away peoples' access, running offline virus scans on their hard drives... Losing his mind with it. Each time one of these messages got posted, they'd lose 1,000 fans due to the spam. That's a big deal for companies that use Facebook. Turns out, the issue was due to the "mobile updates" feature. According to him, there's a random email address that you send updates to, and that gets posted to your page. This is not something you can disable, you can only request that the address be changed. The result is that you can basically spam a whole ton of random email addresses in this format and get your message posted to a load of random Facebook pages. Facebook has not been helpful in stopping this or disabling this feature for their account. Since then, I have seen this happen to my girlfriend's Facebook page as well as her friends', etc. This vulnerability is a wide spread problem. It may not be what happened in TFA (I did not read it), but it's out there. And it's insane.
No patches required. Just revert. All parent posters are correct. This looks worse. This performs worse. This should have been detected in testing.
Maybe god wasn't a good choice of passwords for the superuser account? He should have read the memo.
S'okay, the new password will be selected from the following list:
love
sex
secret
(since, "god" has already been used it has been locked out).
"Flame away, I wear asbestos underwear"
It's probably part of the Hacker Cup competition there holding.
that's why you don't use passwords like "IAMGOD" Mr. Zuckerberg
~nt~
Populus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur...
"Force shits upon Reason's back." - Poor Richard's Almanac
^^
Why would Facebook host something called Hackercup 2011 and NOT expect something like this to happen during it? It would be like me going to Def Con with a Windows XP machine, use they open wireless network, and get pissed and think it is weird that my computer got hacked. Seriously. Also, I checked the "Hackercup 2011" stuff they are doing, and it should be called just another programming competition. You put the word hacker in there, and something is getting hacked, for real. Maybe ol' zucky-poo should have thought that one out better. They should let the unknown hacker win the Hacker cup since he did a hack cool enough to not just make headlines, but some people that posted the headline to their status got it removed by FB. I would say that the person won regardless of what the even was (the hacker clearly marked at the end that this had to do with the Hackercup)
The world is how you make it
Even the threshold slider is broken. The editing AND programming done by this site appears to be done by those with no more than a two-year community college degree. How STUPID can you people be to release something that is broken for most of the users? How is this supposed to be better? Please, enlighten me. Is it better because it looks new? Because you decided to surprise everyone? Come on. Enlighten me. --TSP
That's funny, the slider works fine for me. AND the site is a LOT faster than the previous nightmare (and more streamlined).
StarTrekPhase2 - The Five Year Mission Continues!
I have the ultimate FB security - no account. Tastes great, less filling.
It's just like in France, Nicolas Sarkozy's page (lol) was hacked 2 times in 2 days.
It's clear that none of Facebook's code was compromised, otherwise other high-profile pages would be being defaced. What's more likely here is that, through some human flaw of easy security questions or simple passwords (I can't see the Zuck or his immediate staff using unsecured wifi), the account was compromised. Ergo, not a hack. That pedantry aside, I'm very much pleased to see Facebook knocked down a peg or two, especially in the area of security.
I wonder if there's a link? The French president's facebook account was hacked twice over the last two days (see Le Monde for details).
The anouncement says you email Garrett Woodworth at feedback@slashdot.org
With patches? Are you serious?
Something bad is coming when people are suddenly anxious to tell the truth.
Well, bug reports. Assuming they do accept patches, that'd be a logical place to send 'em.
I guess something happens when you become a CEO---no matter how tech savy you are.
Yes, all the cool kids use dog as password, 'cause it's more clever, right?
Its all good, as long as the message was positive, and made sense in the long run, should be ok, although it should also go to show that too easy to hack a facebook account and hack their info...I wonder if the perp, knows Zuck's private schedule now....unless Zuck himself knows not post all his coming and goings on facebook.
The password they used was Chuck Norris
You have to be dumb as rocks to post your real info on Facebook, it's a pile of garbage.
In other news, you're free to grab a shovel and fill in some potholes if you think the road is too bumpy.
God wouldn't be up this late!
Ha Ha. How appropriate
If it ain't broke, DON'T fix it.
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You don't get to 200 million dollars without exposing a few clues.
SO people actually think it was good or smart of old zucky to give millions to the most corrupt public school system in the country. They neglect the kids for the low low cost of only 17 thousand dollars per student per year. He could have opened free private schools and actually helped some kids. (How much do private schools charge per kid?)
He should take on all kinds of causes because people so clueless should be parted with their money as quickly as possible before they do real damage
He's just a very naughty boy.
There's no indication that they accept bug reports, even. I sent three reports so far, didn't get as much as an auto-response. Also, you'd kinda expect them to set up a bug tracker if they really cared - given that most of their audience cares and knows enough to actually use it if it's there.
Something bad is coming when people are suddenly anxious to tell the truth.
There's no indication that they accept bug reports, even.
The announcement I linked to said "Please direct your bug reports and feedback (good and bad!) to Garrett Woodworth who is currently in charge of such things.". I think it's a pretty good indication, but that's just me.
I haven't received a response, either, although on of the issues I reported has been partially fixed.