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• October 10, 2011
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  New Research Shows Facebook’s URL Scanner Is Vulnerable To Cloaking

  Posted: October 10th, 2011, 8:28am PDT by Darknet

  Tags:  url facebook scanner read url-scanner preview-thumbnail ExploitsVulnerabilities  

  Oh look, Facebook security (or insecurity) is in the news again – not that this technique is anything revolutionary or ground-breaking. It’s basically a HTTP referer detection system for the Facebook URL scanner (the thing that generates the preview/thumbnail etc for links posted to Facebook). By detecting it, you can feed it something...
  
  Read the full post at darknet.org.uk