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 Facebook has rushed to fix a security flaw that allowed users to eavesdrop on the live chats of their friends and see their pending friend requests.
The exploit used the site’s privacy features – intended to protect a user – to expose the personal information.
With just a few clicks users could spy on their friends’ personal chat messages and see who had requested to join their network.
Facebook temporarily removed the chat facility while it fixed the flaw.
The exploit – originally reported by the blog TechCrunch – worked via an option in privacy settings that allows people to preview their profiles as it would appear to their friends.
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But it was never intended to show others what their friends were actually doing.
“For a limited period of time, a bug permitted some users’ chat messages and pending friend requests to be made visible to their friends by manipulating the ‘preview my profile’ feature of Facebook privacy settings,” Facebook said in a statement.
“When we received reports of the problem, our engineers promptly diagnosed it and temporarily disabled the chat function. We also pushed out a fix to take care of the visible friend requests which is now complete,” it added.
The chat function will be turned back on “shortly” it said.
“For any organisation, whether you are a social networking site or not, privacy breaches are worrying,” said Candid Wueest, security expert at Symantec.
“Unfortunately, this isn’t the first privacy breach of its kind to plague a social networking site – other high-profile sites have also been affected with similar problems.”
He praised Facebook’s quick response to the issue.
“Facebook has acted quickly in fixing the alleged flaw, whereas some social networking sites have been known to take days to fix issues reported,” he said.
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ISP TalkTalk has said that new EU telecoms regulations will make it
impossible for media creators to push for suspected illegal filesharers and
downloaders to be disconnected, without first proving guilt through an impartial
legal process.
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The European Union has finally agreed the last details of the Telecom Reform
Package, and decided that citizens’ internet access can be restricted if
necessary, but only after a “fair and impartial procedure including the user’s
right to be heard”.
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(Source Yahoo UK News)
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London trial persuades chief executive to roll out new practice across its 820 shops
Carphone Warehouse hopes to dispel the image of mobile phone sellers as sharp-suited sharks out to make a sale at any price by ending the practice of paying commissions in all of its UK stores so that staff can give impartial advice to customers.
The company, Europe’s largest independent mobile phone retailer, has been running a commission-free trial involving its 1,300 staff in London since last year and the results have persuaded Andrew Harrison, Carphone Warehouse’s UK chief executive, to roll the practice out across every one of its 820 shops in the country.
“We want to stand out within this market, to be the people who you just know are going to be on your side,” said Harrison. “Customers think this industry has been more akin to estate agency or car salesmen. That is not what our business is built on.
“This industry has also seen a huge growth in network-only stores but they do not give you the full array of what is available. Within this industry there are people who will sell you what makes the most profit for their company, not what is the best thing. Especially in the current climate these are big commitments that people are making and people need to know, and we think they have a right to know, that the people who are advising them are on their side. I want to make sure that we are seen as the paragon of virtue in this market.”
There had been fears within the business that when it launched its non-commission trial in London it would see an exodus of experienced staff to rival firms – some of which have in the past offered large cash bonuses to successful salespeople.
But Harrison said staff retention in London had gone up since it introduced the scheme, helped by a rise in basic salaries from £11,000 to £17,000. The company also motivates staff through what it terms a “net promoter” score. After buying a mobile package, customers are sent a text asking how they would rate Carphone Warehouse to friends on a scale of one to 10. Not having to chase sales has also meant staff have had more time to spend with customers, meaning they can discuss the customer’s needs in more detail and potentially sell them more products.
The move is part of a wider trend within the electronics retailing sector to drop commissions as customers are faced with an ever-more confusing array of devices and technologies. Comet, for instance, has introduced store targets instead.
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Facebook has rushed to fix a security flaw that allowed users to eavesdrop on the live chats of their friends and see their pending friend requests.
