Instagram API Bug Could Allow Malware Downloads

A security researcher says there is a bug in the Instagram API that could enable an attacker to post a message with a link to a page he controls that hosts a malicious file, but when the user downloads the file it will appear to come from a legitimate Instagram domain, leading the victim to trust...

Facebook Vulnerability Leaks Users' Private Photos

If you have enabled automatic Facebook Photo Sync feature on your iPhone, iPad or Android devices, then Beware! Hackers can steal your personal photographs without your knowledge. In 2012, the social network giant introduced Facebook Photo Sync feature for iPhone, iPad and Android devices which, ...

Facebook Transparency Report: Government Requests Down

Facebook today reported a slight drop in government requests for user data, bucking a trend that peaked during the first half of 2014 with the highest numbers the company had seen. Its latest transparency report covers the second half of last year, and shows slight dips in requests for user data,...

Facebook Parse - Secure & HTTP_only Bypass Vulnerability

Document Title: =============== Facebook Parse - Secure & HTTPonly Bypass Vulnerability References: =========== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=1429 View Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yUw7rtTTeI Release Date: ============= 2015-03-13 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID:...

Facebook Parse - Secure & HTTP_only Bypass Vulnerability

Document Title: =============== Facebook Parse - Secure & HTTPonly Bypass Vulnerability References: =========== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=1429 View Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yUw7rtTTeI Release Date: ============= 2015-03-13 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID:...

Samsung Patches Social Media Vulnerability in Millions of Devices

Samsung patched a vulnerability last month in SNS Provider, a popular application that manages other social media apps present in millions of its devices. If exploited the bug could have given attackers the ability to access to any personal information users stored on Facebook, LinkedIn and...

Facebook Users Open to Attack Via Several Security Bugs

UPDATE–A security researcher has identified a pair of security issues in Facebook, one of which can be used to to upload an arbitrary file to the site, and the other of which can allow an attacker to gain control of a victim’s machine under some limited circumstances with user interaction. The mo...

Hacking Facebook Account with 'Reconnect' Tool

"Signup or Login with Facebook" ?? You might think twice before doing that next time. A security researcher has discovered a critical flaw that allows hackers take over Facebook accounts on websites that leverage 'Login with Facebook' feature. The vulnerability doesn't grant hackers access to you...

Add Link To Facebook <= 1.215 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

The add-link-to-facebook WordPress plugin was affected by a Cross Site Scripting XSS security vulnerability...

Facebook Auto-UnLiker — Your Facebook Page 'Likes' Might Drop This Week

Do you own a Facebook Business page? If yes, then you will notice a drop in the number of "likes" on your Facebook Page by next week, which could be quite disappointing but, Facebook believes, will help business to know their actual followers. FACEBOOK'S OFFICIAL MASS AUTO-UNLIKE The social netwo...

Exploiting XXE Vulnerabilities in OXML Documents - Part 1

OXML is a common document format; think docx Microsoft Word Document, pptx Microsoft Powerpoint, xlsx Excel Spreadsheet, etc. An OXML document is a zip file containing XML files and any media files. When the document is rendered, the rendering library unzips the document and then parses the...

Facebook Employees can Access your Account without Password

Do you know that your Facebook account can be accessed by Facebook engineers and that too without entering your account credentials? Recent details provided by the social network giant show who can access your Facebook account and when. No doubt, Facebook and other big tech companies including...

Komodia Website Under DDoS Attack

Komodia.com, home to the SSL interception module at the heart of the Superfish adware dustup, is currently under a distributed denial-of-service attack. As of 2 p.m. Eastern time, its home page had been replaced with a notice that the site was offline because it was under attack. “Some people say...

Value 1 2 5 0 0 dollars to the Facebook album delete vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Overview: if your photo is deleted unknowingly, what will you do? Obviously, this problem is very annoying huh? This post is to say I found a vulnerability which allows a malicious user to delete Facebook on any album. Yes, any user, page, group, photo album can be deleted. The Graph API is the...

DroidStealth — Android Encryption Tool with Stealth Capabilities

We all have Internet-connected smartphones in our pockets, but it’s very hard to find a place on Internet to feel secure and private. No doubt, there is data Encryption on cell phones, but what’s the use if it is cracked by hackers or law enforcement? What if the encrypted files don’t exist in th...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss Patch Tuesday, Facebook's ThreatExchange and More

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss Patch Tuesday, the Facebook ThreatExchange platform, Mozilla’s extension signing plan, plus questions from readers! Music by Chris Gonsalves Download: digitalunderground185.mp3...

WordPress Plugin Spider Facebook Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

WordPress is a blogging platform developed by the WordPress Software Foundation using the PHP language, which supports personal blogging sites on PHP and MySQL servers.Spider Facebook is one of the plug-ins that can integrate Facebook into a website. A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in...

Facebook Legacy Contact — Control What Happens to Your Account When You Die

When I Die, I'd like someone to keep updating my Facebook Status, just to Freak people out, because who knew I’d have WiFi signal up there. Jokes apart, Facebook has fulfilled my this wish as well. The social networking giant is giving its users control over what happens to their Facebook account...

​Facebook launches ThreatExchange for Sharing Cyber Security Threats

Social Networking giant Facebook has just launched a new platform called ThreatExchange, which is designed to mount a coordinated defense against cybercrime. Many security professionals rely largely on manual methods for collecting, analyzing, and consuming information about latest cyber security...

Facebook Vulnerability Allows Hacker to Delete Any Photo Album

A Serious vulnerability in Facebook has recently been reported that could allow anyone to delete your complete Facebook photo album without having authentication. Security Researcher Laxman Muthiyah told The Hacker News that the vulnerability actually resides in Facebook Graph API mechanism, whic...