Facebook unaware of origin of HACK affecting 50m profiles Hackers were able to exploit a flaw in Facebook’s code to take control of accounts as if they had logged into the account with a password.

Hack requires Facebook’s HHVM (Hip Hop Virtual Machine) to run. HHVM is a virtual machine that compiles PHP, normally an interpreted language, into byte code, so it can run more quickly.

Another long-term design goal — more implied by the language’s construction than explicitly stated by Facebook — is making Hack safer with fewer inherent vulnerabilities than PHP.

The phishing page is created by visiting the website you want to mock, copying the source HTML code, and then altering it to use a custom PHP script to log the victim's credentials. A good ...

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