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Recent press supports our direction on selecting leading edge security technology partners. Not long ago, NetWitness found the most invasive Netbot in recent history.

Now our cloud-based monitoring solution partner, Alert Logic, discovered a serious bug with Facebook.

IDG reported “Facebook is fixing a Web programming bug that could have allowed hackers to alter profile pages or make restricted information public.

The flaw was discovered last week and reported to Facebook by M.J. Keith, a senior security analyst with security firm Alert Logic.

The bug has to do with the way that Facebook checked to make sure that browsers connecting with the site were the ones they claimed to be. Facebook’s servers use code called a “post_form_id” token to check that the browser trying to do something — liking a group, for example — was actually the browser that had logged into the account. Facebook’s servers check this token before making any changes to the user’s page, but Keith discovered that when he simply deleted the token from messages, he could change many settings on any Facebook account”

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/051910-facebook-fixing-embarrassing-privacy.html?fsrc=netflash-rss

If you need to know more about how to secure your environment, outside and inside, with these and other leading edge technologies, we will provide a $6,000 fixed-fee, rapid FastPath TM Security Assessment. With a couple days on site and a few days of analysis, we can give you a heads up on areas you may need some remediation. This is a small investment to help your IT Security leadership sleep better at night.