Facebook Increases Rejection And Flagging Of Spoofed Email Posts To Groups, Calls Issue A Web-Wide Security Flaw

Facebook has responded to reports of a security issue that lets people post in Groups as if they're someone else. It says this is a known problem with SMTP email standard that it is working with email providers to close the hole. Facebook explains that it does use email verification, and "0ur system rejects most unauthenticated email to groups", or flags suspicious emailed posts as "Unconfirmed Sender. However, now it will do both more aggressively to protect users from being duped.

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