A white hat hacker in India says he found a way to hack into any Facebook user’s profile. Don’t freak out though! Like a good white hat, the hacker alerted Facebook to the disastrous loophole ...

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.

YOUTUBE continues to host tutorials on how to hijack Facebook accounts – days after hackers stole the personal data of around 90million users.

The company has stressed how its own engineering team voluntarily converted the Facebook codebase to Hack and has released the source code under the same license as PHP itself.

In doing so, he explains, Facebook built much more precise code -- code with fewer flaws. Hack provides a kind of safety net for developers.

YOUTUBE continues to host tutorials on how to hijack Facebook accounts – days after hackers stole the personal data of around 90million users.

Google is hosting tutorials on how to hijack Facebook accounts using a similar method to the hackers who had gained access to the personal data of 50 million users.

Facebook has released a programming language called Hack, which marries the ease of PHP with the rigorous safety controls of older languages such as C++. PHP programmers should easily understand ...