For 2nd Time in 3 Years, Mobile Spyware Maker mSpy Leaks Millions of Sensitive Records

mSpy, the makers of a software-as-a-service product that claims to help more than a million paying customers spy on the mobile devices of their kids and partners, has leaked millions of sensitive records online, including passwords, call logs, text messages, contacts, notes and location data...

You are not alone; Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are down for many (Updated)

By Waqas You are not alone; the social media giant Facebook and its subsidiaries Instagram and WhatsApp Messenger are down in many countries around the world for almost an hour starting from 10 pm UK time. The reason for this outage is currently unknown and there has been no statement from...

Facebook Flaw Allowed Remote Commands

A vulnerability in a Facebook server that could have led to information disclosure and command execution has been patched by the social network. At issue was a Sentry service, which is an open-source error tracking application that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. It’s writt...

This Week in Security News: Facebook and Faxploits

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, Facebook removed 652 fake accounts originating from Russia and Iran. Also, Microsoft identified and removed fake internet domains that...

Recent App Issues Reveal Facebook’s Struggles to Temper Data Privacy Woes

Facebook was hit with a double privacy punch regarding data privacy on Wednesday. First, Facebook acknowledged in a public post that one of the apps on its platform, myPersonality, inappropriately shared 4 million users’ data with researchers. Also on Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal reported...

Apple Forces Facebook VPN App Out of iOS Store for Stealing Users' Data

Facebook yesterday removed its mobile VPN app called Onavo Protect from the iOS App Store after Apple declared the app violated the iPhone maker's App Store guidelines on data collection. For those who are unaware, Onavo Protect is a Facebook-owned Virtual Private Network VPN app that was primari...

Apple Forces Facebook VPN App Out of iOS Store for Stealing Users' Data

Facebook yesterday removed its mobile VPN app called Onavo Protect from the iOS App Store after Apple declared the app violated the iPhone maker's App Store guidelines on data collection. For those who are unaware, Onavo Protect is a Facebook-owned Virtual Private Network VPN app that was primari...

Social Media Enumeration & Correlation Tool: Social Mapper

Social Mapper is a Open Source Intelligence Tool that uses facial recognition to correlate social media profiles across different sites on a large scale. It takes an automated approach to searching popular social media sites for targets names and pictures to accurately detect and group a person’s...

Chrome Bug Allowed Hackers to Find Out Everything Facebook Knows About You

With the release of Chrome 68, Google prominently marks all non-HTTPS websites as 'Not Secure' on its browser to make the web a more secure place for Internet users. If you haven't yet, there is another significant reason to immediately switch to the latest version of the Chrome web browser. Ron...

Chrome Bug Allowed Hackers to Find Out Everything Facebook Knows About You

With the release of Chrome 68, Google prominently marks all non-HTTPS websites as 'Not Secure' on its browser to make the web a more secure place for Internet users. If you haven't yet, there is another significant reason to immediately switch to the latest version of the Chrome web browser. Ron...

Google Chrome Bug Opens Access to Private Facebook Information

A browser bug in Google Chrome has been discovered that lets bad actors uncover private data stored on Facebook, Google sites and other platforms, by using video and audio HTML tags, and the filtering functions in websites. The bug in question exists in the Blink engine, which is used to power...

Fedora 27 : mozilla-privacy-badger (2018-d5d8819190)

Fixed security issues with HTML5 local storage tracking detection as well as SoundCloud widget replacement. Thanks again to Cure53 for discovering and reporting these vulnerabilities. - Improved Facebook link unwrapping; now enabled on the Facebook Onion domain - Improved translations Italian,...

AV-Comparatives: Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac Provides 100% Malware Protection for Mac Users

Despite popular opinion otherwise, the days have long since passed when Mac users can venture forth on the Internet without having to worry about viruses or ransomware, phishing attacks or dangerous URLs. Though the number of attacks on the Mac are fewer than those on Windows machines because the...

Black Hat Video Exclusive: Mobile APTs Redefining Phishing Attacks

LAS VEGAS: Mike Murray, vice president of security intelligence at Lookout, talks with Threatpost’s Tom Spring to discuss the latest trends in mobile advanced persistence threats APTs. He said mobile is redefining traditional inbox phishing. On smartphones, phishing includes dangerous links insid...

Social Mapper - A Social Media Enumeration & Correlation Tool

A Social Media Mapping Tool that correlates profiles via facial recognition by Jacob WilkinGreenwolf Social Mapper is a Open Source Intelligence Tool that uses facial recognition to correlate social media profiles across different sites on a large scale. It takes an automated approach to searchin...

Facebook BB #71 - (API) UXSS via MS Internet Explorer 11

Document Title: =============== Facebook BB 71 - API UXSS via MS Internet Explorer 11 References: =========== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=1915 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QFymo42JI Release Date: ============= 2018-08-09 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID:...

Facebook BB #71 - (API) UXSS via MS Internet Explorer 11

Document Title: =============== Facebook BB 71 - API UXSS via MS Internet Explorer 11 References: =========== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=1915 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QFymo42JI Release Date: ============= 2018-08-08 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID:...

Facebook Open Sources Fizz — TLS 1.3 Library For Speed and Security

Facebook has open sourced Fizz—a library designed to help developers implement TLS 1.3 protocol with all recommended security and performance related configurations. Since late last month, Google Chrome web browser has started marking all non-HTTPS websites as 'Not Secure' in an effort to make th...

Facebook Open Sources Fizz — TLS 1.3 Library For Speed and Security

Facebook has open sourced Fizz—a library designed to help developers implement TLS 1.3 protocol with all recommended security and performance related configurations. Since late last month, Google Chrome web browser has started marking all non-HTTPS websites as 'Not Secure' in an effort to make th...

FBI Releases Article on Building a Digital Defense Against Facebook Scams

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has released an article on building a digital defense against a fraud that uses Facebook’s texting app—Facebook Messenger. Scammers send messages that appear to be from trusted sources or trick users into clicking on malicious links or sharing personal...