Sentences with phrase «account recovery function»

Hackers also abused Facebook's account recovery function, by pretending to be legitimate users who had forgotten account details.

Among Facebook's acknowledgments on Wednesday was the disclosure of a vulnerability in its search and account recovery functions that it said could have exposed «most» of its 2 billion users to having their public profile information harvested.

Not exact matches

The underlying mechanisms accounting for why hGDAsBMP are so much more beneficial in terms of neuroprotection and functional recovery than either hGDAsCNTF or undifferentiated precursor cells when transplanted into spinal cord injured rats remain to be investigated, but it is likely that multiple cellular functions are involved.

Veterinary technicians administer anesthesia, monitor surgical recovery, provide nursing care to patients, perform dental prophylaxis, and more; however, when the the specialized functions nurses serve are taken into account, the similarities of the two professions outweigh the differences.

Schroepfer said that the main security weakness was in a function called Search and Account Recovery, which, among other things, allowed searches using information other than a person's name.

While convenient and efficient, the «Search and Account Recovery» function likely also helped «malicious actors» gain access to the personal data of «most» of Facebook's two billion users, the company has admitted.

In addition to utilizing the search function to their advantage, the culprits could also use Facebook's recovery function, by impersonating legitimate users to retrieve forgotten account details.