Meta Muse security concerns: sharing back on, with new URLs

Meta Muse security concerns centred on public links, and Meta says the fix covers shared artifacts such as documents and images, not chat sharing.

Meta has re-enabled sharing in Muse after researchers reported that public links to shared content were easy to find.

Researchers at Claroc said shared-conversation web addresses were named after conversation titles and written into public DNS.

Meta says the problem was with URLs for shared artifacts, such as documents and images, not with chat sharing.

Artifacts shared before the fix now have new URLs; older links show a note asking for the new one.

How many shared pages were exposed has not been stated.

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