Facebook Applications Prove Insecure
Chris Soghoian has an interesting article about how a number of application developers are failing to protect against extremely basic security risks. For instance, a user can monitor all post and get requests (a system for passing data from a form which prompts users for information) coming from an application form and modify it prior to submitting the data to the application server.
The result is that hackers could theoretically spoof their identity. This is an issue that most websites are also vulnerable to.
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