Just a few days after having his Pinterest, LinkedIn, and Twitter attacked by a group of hackers, Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook seem to have another hacking problem on their hands. Cyber security experts are set to release a major security flaw in Facebook's messender app, which is used by around 900 million people all acroos the world.
Check Point, a Tel Aviv and California based cyber security firm, are set to release details of how hackers can enter a purportedly private Facebook Messenger conversation between individuals without getting detected. Not only that, the hackers can also alter the conversation between these individuals.
What's scary about this is that altered Messenger conversations may not only have repercussions on a person's personal life. Messenger conversations also hold up as evidence in the court of law and therefore this security flaw could potentially allow hackers to tamper with potentially crucial evidence.
This means that an attacker could get a way with falsifying a settlement agreement by making it seem like the victim has agreed to one, says the report from Check Point per News.com.au. "This vulnerability opened the door for an attacker to hide evidence of a crime or even incriminate an innocent person," the report adds.
Text messages sent through messenger are not the only things affected by this vulnerability. In an official blog post from Check Point they say, "by abusing this vulnerability, it is possible to modify or remove any sent message, photo, file, link, and much more."
Check Point has come out with a statement saying that they have disclosed full details of the security flaw to the Facebook security team. A patch has been released to fix the vulnerability; however, it does leave the door open to the idea that there are others present not only in Facebook, but also in other social networking platforms.
