22 May 2012

Firewalls can help hackers break into Facebook, Twitter

WASHINGTON: Firewall technology designed to boost security can unwittingly reveal data that could help a hacker break into Facebook and Twitter accounts, a new study says.

Using Android smartphones, Z. Morley Mao, computer science associate professor at the University of Michigan, and doctoral student Zhiyun Qian revealed how an attacker could hijack a TCP (transmission control protocol) Internet connection by taking advantage of publicly available information on smartphones. 



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