Cyber Security Week in Review (March 28)

Welcome to this week's Cyber Security Week in Review, where Cisco Talos runs down all of the news we think you need to know in the security world. Top headlines this week ASUS had to release an emergency fix for a malware that may have accidentally deployed to their machines. Attackers may have...

Facebook’s plain text misstep, and other password sins

Two days after an article by Brian Krebs disclosed that hundreds of millions of Facebook account passwords had been stored in plain text for years, Facebook released a statement indicating they hash and salt passwords, more or less in accordance with industry best practice. Plain text storage of...

New Settings Let Hackers Easily Pentest Facebook, Instagram Mobile Apps

Facebook has introduced a new feature in its platform that has been designed to make it easier for bug bounty hunters to find security flaws in Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram Android applications. Since almost all Facebook-owned apps by default use security mechanisms such as Certificate...

WordPress social-networks-auto-poster-facebook-twitter-g plugin cross-site scripting vulnerability

WordPress is a set of WordPress Software Foundation's blogging platform developed using the PHP language, which supports setting up personal blog sites on servers with PHP and MySQL.WordPress social-networks-auto-poster-facebook-twitter-g is a plugin. A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists i...

Critical DoS Bug Bubbles Up in Facebook Fizz TLS 1.3 Project

A critical denial-of-service DoS vulnerability in Facebook’s open-source implementation of the transport layer security TLS 1.3 protocol could cause an infinite loop – thus disrupting any web service that relies on it. Kevin Backhouse, a researcher at Semmle, discovered the bug in the project...

Facebook stored 600m user passwords in plain text exposed to 20k employees

By Uzair Amir The company says it discovered the issue in January and there is no need to change passwords. The social media giant Facebook has revealed that its internal data storage systems saved user passwords in plain text that could be accessed by employees. The social media said an ongoing...

Your Facebook Password Isn’t Safe. Neither Is Your Android Phone

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CVE-2019-9911

CVE-2019-9911 concerns the WordPress plugin NextScripts: Social Networks Auto-Poster (Facebook-Twitter-G), specifically versions prior to 4.2.8. The vulnerability is an XSS in the admin endpoint wp-admin/admin.php?page=nxssnap-reposter&action=edit, which can be triggered in the affected context. ...

Facebook Mistakenly Stored Millions of Users' Passwords in Plaintext

Holy moly, Facebook is again at the center of a new privacy controversy after revealing today that its platform mistakenly kept a copy of passwords for "hundreds of millions" users in plaintext. What's more? Not just Facebook, Instagram users are also affected by the latest security incident. So,...

Facebook Mistakenly Stored Millions of Users' Passwords in Plaintext

Holy moly, Facebook is again at the center of a new privacy controversy after revealing today that its platform mistakenly kept a copy of passwords for "hundreds of millions" users in plaintext. What's more? Not just Facebook, Instagram users are also affected by the latest security incident. So,...

Facebook Stored Millions of Passwords in Plaintext—Change Yours Now

Facebook has disclosed that it stored hundreds of millions of user passwords in plaintext, where employees could search them...

Facebook Stored Passwords in Plain Text For Years

Hundreds of millions of Facebook user passwords have been stored in plain text for years, the social media giant acknowledged on Thursday. KrebsOnSecurity, which first reported the news, said that specifically between 200 and 600 million passwords were stored in plain text as early as 2012, and...

Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years

Hundreds of millions of Facebook users had their account passwords stored in plain text and searchable by thousands of Facebook employees -- in some cases going back to 2012, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Facebook says an ongoing investigation has so far found no indication that employees have...

CVE-2019-9911: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

The social-networks-auto-poster-facebook-twitter-g plugin before 4.2.8 for WordPress has wp-admin/admin.php?page=nxssnap-reposter&action=edit item XSS...

A week in security (March 11 – 17)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we looked at the Lazarus group in our series about APT groups, we discussed the introduction of Payment Service Directive 2 PSD2 in the EU, we tackled Google’s Nest fiasco, and the launch of Mozilla's Firefox Send. In addition, we gave you an overview of the...

This Week in Security News: Security Vulnerabilities

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 what critical approaches can protect your enterprise business from software vulnerabilities. Also, learn about vulnerabilities in IoT...

SocialFish v2 - Educational Phishing Tool & Information Collector

Ultimate phishing tool with Ngrok integrated. Are you looking for SF's mobile controller? UndeadSec/SocialFishMobile PREREQUISITES Python 2.7 Wget from Python PHP TESTED ON Kali Linux - ROLLING EDITION CLONE git clone https://github.com/UndeadSec/SocialFish.git RUNNING cd SocialFish sudo pip...

Telegram Gained 3 Million New Users During WhatsApp, Facebook Outage

WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram faced a widespread outage yesterday with users from around the world reporting issues with sending messages on WhatsApp and Messenger, posting feeds on Facebook and accessing other features on the three Facebook-owned platforms. While the outage was quite troubli...

When Facebook Goes Down, Don't Blame Hackers

Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp spent several hours offline in many parts of the world today. Just don't call it a DDoS attack...

Facebook and Instagram are down around the world

By Carolina Facebook says it's aware of the situation and trying to fix the issue. 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 platforms to go offline...