Facebook hack reveals the perils of using a single account to log in to other services
- Written by Mike Johnstone, Security Researcher, Associate Professor in Resilient Systems, Edith Cowan University
There are several flow-on effects from the recent Facebook hack. ShutterstockFacebook announced on Friday that its engineering team had discovered a security issue affecting almost 50 million accounts. Due to a flaw in Facebook’s code, hackers were able to take over an account and use it in the same way you would if you had logged into the...