The way in which images attached to Facebook posts are refreshed can be abused to conduct distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks using the site’s high-bandwidth servers, a security researcher found.After Facebook added a new feature for refreshing attachment content in early June, Teofil Cojocariu, security researcher at Cyber Security Research Center in Romania (CCSIR), discovered a vulnerability that permits an attacker to perpetrate a DDoS attack through the feature.He reported the fl…
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