Facebook application User-Bocorkan Information NewsRilis PersTentang AntaraNews.com Top KamiKetentuan PenggunaanForumRSSTwitter TengahAfrikaEkonomiMakroMoneterBisnisBursaEdukasi BisnisInfo PerbankanMarket newsNasionalUmumPolkamHukumPendidikanKesehatanNakerUnikInternasionalAsiaoseaniaAmerikaEropaTimur between FocusOlahragaSepakbolaTenisBulutangkisBasketTinjuBalapUmumHiburanSinemaMusikSelebritiSeni BudayaGaya HidupTeknologiSainsKomputerGadgetInternetWarta BumiPemanasan GlobalFlora FaunaPencemaranArtikelKomentarOpiniBukuAntara KitaVisiFotoVideoEnglish Facebook application Bocorkan Information Users Thursday, may 12, 2011 8: 09 PM | 2604 Views popular social Network, Facebook. (Afp/Lukisatrio)News related to the rent of public relations, Facebook Attack GoogleLady Gaga appeared on the Game FacebookBio Farma Socialised Immunization via FacebookMenulis Rough on Facebook, Players Hit a fake Video of Osama GanjaranWaspadai Links in FacebookVideoMedia Online Effective Net Consumers Jakarta (AFP)-according to a report the company Symantec web security, at least 100 thousand Facebook application has accidentally leaked the access to the user account that the social Web for several years.

As reported in CNN, Facebook applications are web applications that run on the Facebook platform. Facebook says its users install 20 million applications in the same platform every day.

A third party, its advertisers, have access to your profile, photos, chat and other personal information of users, says a post in the blog Symantec on Wednesday (11/5).

Facebook understands the issue and said it had already been resolved. But the social networking giant also said that Symantec report has some "inaccuracies" and user information is never distributed to any third party who is not authorized.

Lapaoran Symantec says that over the years, hundreds of thousands of applications found to have "access token", which the company describes it as a form of a key backup for those accounts.

"Needless to say, a result that looks like the access token leaks far and wide," says Nishant Dosti, Norton antivirus provider company staff in his writing on the company blog.

There is no good way to predict exactly how much the access token has been leaked, says Symantec.

Lucky, Symantec says that most application developers may not realize they have this access. The company says Facebook has taken steps to address the issues of improvement were found last month and attracted the attention of the Facebook.

Facebook says most of the access token expires in two hours, which means no useful again for third parties is dangerous after that period.

A Facebook spokesman told CNN in an e-mail that the site was working with Symantec to resolve the issue. But he said an "investigation of simply" does not show the existence of any information obtained by an authorized party.

"Additionally, the report ignored the obligations contracted advertisers and developers that forbid them to take or share user information that violates our policy dengancara," he said.

On Tuesday (11/5), Facebook announced in a blog developer that it was working with Symantec to recognize our problems in order to ensure the authentication path that they are safe. "

Post it announced an update that requires all website and Facebook application to switch to sesuatau the new, safer for developers.

"We believe this change creates a better experience and safe for the users of your application," wrote Naitik Shah from Facebook in a post.

Facebook is currently using a more secure authentication system for the application, but still support the old, less secure version, says Symantec. Sites that have not yet found evidence that any of the leaked information was used for the benefit of the violating Facebook policy.

Facebook users can prevent any access that is not legal in an application that is owned by changing the word keys.

Developers that use the old system of Facebook will experience the transition to a new, more secure systems development, between now and October 1, according to a post on her blog.
 
This new system allows the user to install the application with a detailed list of applications that will access their personal data.

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