Firewalls used to hack into FB, Twitter accounts: Study

A computer science associate professor at the University of Michigan, and a doctoral student using an Android phone revealed just how it is possible for one to misuse the otherwise useful Firewall technology to hack into Facebook and Twitter accounts.

Reports coming in bring to light a study by Z. Morley Mao, a computer science associate professor at the University of Michigan, and a doctoral student, Zhiyun Qian. They explained how it was possible for someone to hijack a TCP (transmission control protocol) Internet connection by misusing publicly available information on smartphones.

The researchers, reportedly presented their findings at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy in San Francisco, US. The report further went on to add that these hackers also took advantage of gullible users with willingness to download suspicious apps and network firewall middleboxes that block the data bundles, which are not included in the flow of information traffic.

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