ALERT: Snooping Facebook On Android Is Simple
Hackers can eavesdrop on the Android version of Facebook using free code readily available online.
Hackers can easily eavesdrop on the Android version of Facebook using free code readily available online.
Rice University Associate Professor of Computer Science Dan Wallach explains that he and his students set up a sniffer to run Wireshark and Mallory and listen in on his Android smartphone. They found vulnerabilities in several applications running on the mobile device, and here’s what he had to say about Facebook:
Facebook does everything in the clear… My Facebook account’s web settings specify full-time encrypted traffic, but this apparently isn’t honored or supported by Facebook’s Android app.
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