Facebook and Skype users were beyond thrilled when the two companies announced their partnership. The world’s largest social network which already offered video recording on your friend’s walls and in their inboxes looked forward to offering video chat and group video chat capabilities. After all, most of our friends on the social network are the ones we communicate with frequently so why not speak to them face to face without exterior downloads and applications.
The integration struck out at Google’s launch of Google+ which features a video and conference calling aspect called Hangouts. Loyal Skype and Facebook users expected great things from the duo but the new Skype 5.5 for Windows update actually posed a risk of account hijacking. The security flaw occurred because one of the new features fails to filter JavaScript code in Facebook status messages, enabling easy capture of any user’s Skype session cookie. This makes things ridiculously easy for hackers.
Two weeks before the recent update issue, Skype dealt with other problem causing bug on Facebook. The bug for Windows users allowed someone to put malicious content onto a webpage ultimately re-directing users to virus containing websites. So not only are these continuous flaws irritating, they are potentially harmful to systems and devices. The risk of having an account hijacked is also enough to scare all users away so Skype will really have to work out the kinks and prevent future problems if they are aiming for a high volume of users.
Regardless of the flaws being made, Skype is not slowing down when it comes to developing other partnerships and integrating itself deeper into platforms on Windows Phones and Xbox. They are confident in working out current issues and providing stellar VoIP service to those who are interested.
