FaceApp scares point to larger data collection problems

Last week, if you thumbed your way through Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, you likely saw altered photos of your friends with a few extra decades written onto their faces—wrinkles added, skin sagged, hair bereft of color. Has 2019 really been that long? Not really. The photos are the work of...

Facebook Agrees to Pay $5 Billion Fine and Setup New Privacy Program for 20 Years

The Federal Trade Commission FTC today officially confirmed that Facebook has agreed to pay a record-breaking $5 billion fine over privacy violations surrounding the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Besides the multibillion-dollar penalty, the company has also accepted a 20-year-long agreement that...

Facebook Agrees to Pay $5 Billion Fine and Setup New Privacy Program for 20 Years

The Federal Trade Commission FTC today officially confirmed that Facebook has agreed to pay a record-breaking $5 billion fine over privacy violations surrounding the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Besides the multibillion-dollar penalty, the company has also accepted a 20-year-long agreement that...

Facebook Messenger Customer Chat Plugin - Critical - Access bypass - SA-CONTRIB-2019-059

The Facebook Messenger Customer Chat Plugin module enables you to add the Facebook Messenger Customer Chat Plugin to your Drupal site. The module doesn't require user permissions on the admin page...

Rockstar Games: Image Injection vulnerability on screenshot-viewer/responsive/image may allow Facebook OAuth token theft.

In this report, the researcher identified a series of vulnerabilities that could be exploited together to exfiltrate sensitive user tokens. In this attack chain, one critical step was an image injection vulnerability in the Screenshot-Viewer function on the main site, at...

Rockstar Games: CSRF Vulnerabiliy on Facebook Linkage Page Allows Full Account takerover of Socialclub Accounts.

In this report, the researcher identified a CSRF vulnerability in the account linking process that could have allowed attackers to link their Facebook account to the victim's Social Club account, giving the attacker access to the victim's Social Club account. This attack would have required a...

HiddenEye - Modern Phishing Tool With Advanced Functionality (Android-Support-Available)

Modern Phishing Tool With Advanced Functionality PHISHING | KEYLOGGER | INFORMATIONCOLLECTOR | ALLINONETOOL | SOCIALENGINEERING DEVELOPERS & CONTRIBUTORS 1. ANONUD4Y https://github.com/An0nUD4Y 2. USAMA ABDUL SATTAR https://github.com/usama7628674 3. sTiKyt https://github.com/sTiKyt 4. UNDEADSEC...

Facebook HHVM Denial of Service Vulnerability

Facebook HHVM aka HipHop Virtual Machine is a virtual machine from Facebook that significantly improves the performance of loading dynamic pages in PHP. A security vulnerability exists in the call to the 'scryptenc' function in Facebook HHVM. The vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker with...

This Week in Security News: Spam Campaigns and Mobile Malware

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about a mobile malware that infects Android devices by exploiting the vulnerabilities found within the operating system. Also, read...

New Facebook ad reporting tool launches in UK

Last year, well-known consumer advice expert Martin Lewis decided to take Facebook to court for defamation. The cause? Multiple bogus adverts placed on the social network featuring his likeness, appearing via the ad network Outbrain. As a trusted face in consumer causes, scammers bolting Lewis'...

Brute_Force - BruteForce Gmail, Hotmail, Twitter, Facebook & Netflix

Install : pip install proxylist pip install mechanize Usage: BruteForce Gmail Attack python3 BruteForce.py -g [email protected] -l Filelist python3 BruteForce.py -g [email protected] -p PasswordSingle BruteForce Hotmail Attack python3 BruteForce.py -t [email protected] -l Filelist...

Think FaceApp Is Scary? Wait Till You Hear About Facebook

The idea that FaceApp is somehow exceptionally dangerous threatens to obscure the real point: All apps deserve this level of scrutiny...

Facebook WhatsApp Input Verification Error Vulnerability

Facebook WhatsApp is a suite of mobile applications from the American company Facebook that utilize the web to deliver text messages. The application uses the contact information in a smartphone to find contacts using the program to send texts, pictures, and more. An input validation error...

Privacy Experts: Facebook's $5B Fine Unlikely to Do Much

The $5 billion fine that the Federal Trade Commission has slapped on Facebook for privacy violations may be the largest ever levied by the agency, but it’s being derided as “chump change” and ineffective by lawmakers and privacy analysts. The settlement, reported Friday evening, stems from...

Researcher Bypasses Instagram 2FA to Hack Any Account

A researcher earned a $30,000 bug bounty from Facebook after discovering a weakness in the Instagram mobile recovery process that would allow account takeover for any user, via mass brute-force campaigns. Independent researcher Laxman Muthiyah took a look at Instagram’s mobile recovery flow, whic...

Facebook to Pay $5 Billion Fine to Settle FTC Privacy Investigation

After months of negotiations, the United States Federal Trade Commission FTC has approved a record $5 billion settlement with Facebook over its privacy investigation into the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The settlement will put an end to a wide-ranging probe that began more than a year ago and...

Facebook to Pay $5 Billion Fine to Settle FTC Privacy Investigation

After months of negotiations, the United States Federal Trade Commission FTC has approved a record $5 billion settlement with Facebook over its privacy investigation into the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The settlement will put an end to a wide-ranging probe that began more than a year ago and...

Post-Data Breach, British Airways Slapped With Record $230M Fine

UPDATE A record $230 million fine has been proposed against British Airways after a 2018 data breach impacted 500,000 of the airline’s customers. If approved, the fee would be the biggest General Data Protection Regulation GDPR fine to be issued to a company so far. On Monday, the Information...

Fbchecker - Facebook Mass Account Checker

Facebook Mass Account Checker Simple Installation : apt install git apt install php git clone https://github.com/fdciabdul/fbchecker cd fbchecker php fbcheck.php Usage php fbcheck.php target.txt Download Fbchecker...

Facebook and Instagram suffer massive outage

By Uzair Amir You are not alone; Facebook and Instagram are down for almost everyone in Europe and America. Another day, another service outage at social media giant Facebook and its subsidiary company Instagram. Yes, Facebook and Instagram have been hit by a worldwide service outage forcing both...