Read Data On Serial Port. Author: Published June 28, 2013 8:28 am in,,, A UK-based security researcher going by the name of 'fin1te' has earned himself $20,000 after uncovering a way to hack into any account on Facebook, just by sending a mobile phone text message. This should - obviously - have been impossible, but due to a weakness in Facebook's tangled nest of millions and millions of lines in code, potentially hundreds of millions of accounts were vulnerable to hijacking through the simple technique.

Fin1te (real name Jack Whitten) has documented how the hack works on his. The first thing to do is send the letter 'F' in an SMS message to Facebook, as though you were legitimately registering your mobile phone with the social network. In the UK, the SMS shortcode for Facebook is 32665. Facebook responds, via SMS, with an eight character confirmation code. C/windows/system32/shutdown.exe ? more.