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Social Networks Face Security Challenge from Third-Party Applications

Friday, February 20th, 2009

Facebook and other social networking sites such as MySpace face the question of how to secure third-party applications developed for use with their sites. A SQL injection vulnerability recently discovered in two Facebook applications underscores this quandary.

While changes to Facebook’s user license agreement have been in the news of late, another issue continues to nag Facebook and other social networks—the security of applications developed by third parties.

by Brian Prince

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This entry was posted on Friday, February 20th, 2009 at 7:00 am by Raquel Rios and is filed under News

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