University of Virginia Engineering School Student Probes Facebook's Vulnerabilities.
AScribe Law News Service, January, 2008
Byline: University of Virginia
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Jan. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Facebook, the social networking platform that has redefined communications, has millions of users. According to University of Virginia computer science major Adrienne Felt, all of these users should be concerned about security.
Felt, a fourth-year student in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at U.Va., leads a research project on privacy issues surrounding social networking platforms and is investigating the information sharing that occurs when users download a Facebook application - a program that allows the user to interact with other users in interesting ways, from sharing music to playing games.
Although these applications add variety to a...
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