Facebook Hack News: Maybe The Biggest Security Threat Facebook Has ever Faced - Its Homepage Source Code Publicly Revealed
On the 15th of August, facebooksecrets.blogspot.com published the homepage (index.php) source code of facebook’s website. Three hours later, the publication, on the blog hosted on the google-owned blogger network, was removed after a DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) take down notice from Facebook.
You won’t find the DMCA notice on facebooksecrets.blogspot.com because this blog has been completely shut down (you won’t even find the blog content in the cache of google either facebook’s source codes over the Net anymore), but you may read, if you want, the notice on facebooksecretsagain.blogspot.com.
Concerning the source code leakage and according to Brandee Barker, who work for Facebook, who want to clarify a few things about this story:
“Some of Facebook’s source code was exposed to a small number of users due to a bug on a single server that was misconfigured and then fixed immediately. It was not a security breach and did not compromise user data in any way.”
According to other sources (see below), it is a big security breach and it might compromise user data…
Indeed, a part of facebook’s security, based on occultism (like billions of other websites using PHP, perl, … this was just a break! ), has been un-occulted and might give precious information to some bad guys!
Otherwise, why does Facebook absolutely want to remove any traces of these sources on the web?
Because some sources are even better than a long article, you will find below some interesting links if you want to get more information about this story:
facebooksecrets
facebooksecretsagain
sla.chers.org web application security forum
GNUCITIZEN
Wired.com
techncrunch.com
chillingeffects.org
Google search for facebooksecrets.blogspot.com
0×000000.com
zdnet blogs
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