Friday, April 6, 2012

New Security Hole In Facebook App Could Lead To Hacking Your Account [Warning]

We all know that the first thing you do is installing some social apps like Twitter, Facebook, ebuddy or any other social app for your iPhone, and maybe there is a large number of peoples who are using Facebook iOS app in chatting and checking messages, notifications and etc.. But the following news that we have got is not good for those Apple users who are using Facebook iOS app.. Because probably your Facebook account could be hacked..
A new and well known security researcher named Gareth Wright whose job is looking after Internet and accounts privacy and prevent it from hacking or stealing. Today Gareth has published a blog post that made a  large disturbance and too many questions now began appearing..
Almost all the questions was about how iOS developers are handling saved values — logins, etc. It seems that some apps are saving this data in plain, unencrypted text files…
According to some studies which stopped at a point which says that Using the free tool iExplorer(previously iPhone explorer) and a non-jailbroken iPhone, Wright was able to pull all kinds of account information from apps like Facebook and Draw Something, which was stored in unencrypted plist files.

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