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Five Companies That Dropped The Ball This Week

By Kevin McLaughlin CRN
12:30 PM ET Fri. Nov. 02, 2012
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Facebook Plugs Security Hole That Put User Accounts At Risk

Facebook has fixed a glitch that reportedly made it possible to access the accounts of more than a million users without a password. It all started with a post to the Hacker News Website, which contained code that could be entered into Google in order to obtain a listing of 1.32 million Facebook accounts and email addresses of users, according to a report from the BBC News.

While Facebook moved quickly here, this episode did nothing to quell the already widespread security concerns associated with the social networking site.

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