URL Redirection flaw in Facebook apps push OAuth vulnerability again in action

In earlier posts, our Facebook hacker 'Nir Goldshlager' exposed two serious Facebook oAuth Flaws. One, Hacking a Facebook account even without the user installing an application on their account and second, various ways to bypassing the regex protection in Facebook OAuth. This time, Nir illustrat...

URL Redirection flaw in Facebook apps push OAuth vulnerability again in action

In earlier posts, our Facebook hacker 'Nir Goldshlager' exposed two serious Facebook oAuth Flaws. One, Hacking a Facebook account even without the user installing an application on their account and second, various ways to bypassing the regex protection in Facebook OAuth. This time, Nir illustrat...

Facebook Apps Promise Change but In Reality Phish Your Information

Spammy Facebook apps are nothing new, the web giant has been dealing with suspicious behavior apps since the website launched the Facebook Platform for developers in 2007. As an open source app development tool, anyone can create an app, including people who really just want to steal your...

Italian team discoveries flaw in Ruzzle protocol, serious menace to privacy

We are in digital era, everything is connected to the large networks and applications benefit of even more complex devices that deeply interact with owner, in this scenario security requirements assume a crucial importance and security of overall architecture also depend on security of single...

Facebook Apps Promise Change but In Reality Phish Your Information

Spammy Facebook apps are nothing new, the web giant has been dealing with suspicious behavior apps since the website launched the Facebook Platform for developers in 2007. As an open source app development tool, anyone can create an app, including people who really just want to steal your...

DEBIAN-CVE-2013-0240

Gnome Online Accounts GOA 3.4.x, 3.6.x before 3.6.3, and 3.7.x before 3.7.5, does not properly validate SSL certificates when creating accounts such as Windows Live and Facebook accounts, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain sensitive information such as credentials by sniffing the...

WordPress Facebook Members Plugin <= 5.0.4 - CSRF

Because of this vulnerability, the attackers can hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that modify this plugin's settings. Solution Update the plugin...

Command and Control Used in Sanny APT Attacks Shut Down

Two message boards used by the Sanny malware as a command-and-control channel have been shut down by the Korea Information Security Agency in conjunction with security company FireEye. Sanny is a targeted attack, attributed to attackers in Korea, against individuals working in Russia’s aerospace,...

Apple Adds Two-Factor Authentication to iTunes Accounts

Apple has introduced a new two-factor authentication system designed to help protect users’ iTunes and App Store accounts and prevent attackers or unauthorized users from taking over users’ accounts. The system is similar to the one that Google has implemented for Gmail, utilizing verification...

Ramnit Malware Back and Better at Avoiding Detection

The Ramnit malware family has been given a facelift with new anti-detection capabilities, a troubleshooting module, as well as enhanced encryption and malicious payloads. Tim Liu of the Microsoft Malware Protection Center said Ramnet resurfaced late last year and its keepers had stripped out all ...

Facebook hacking accounts using another OAuth vulnerability

Remember the last OAuth Flaw in Facebook, that allow an attacker to hijack any account without victim's interaction with any Facebook Application, was reported by white hat Hacker 'Nir Goldshlager'. After that Facebook security team fixed that issue using some minor changes. Yesterday Goldshlager...

Facebook hacking accounts using another OAuth vulnerability

Remember the last OAuth Flaw in Facebook, that allow an attacker to hijack any account without victim's interaction with any Facebook Application, was reported by white hat Hacker 'Nir Goldshlager'. After that Facebook security team fixed that issue using some minor changes. Yesterday Goldshlager...

Iran blocks most virtual private network (VPN) services

IRAN has spent years fending off cyber attacks, blocking access and isolated their own intranet off from the outside world. Many Iranians was using of virtual private network VPNs, which provides encrypted links directly to private networks based abroad, to access Sites like YouTube and Facebook...

More from CanSecWest 2013

Pwn2Own, Pwnium Attract Dollars and 0-Days by the Bushel Groundbreaking Cyber Fast Track Research Program Ending At Pwn2Own, Browser Exploits Getting Harder, More Expensive to Find Firefox, Java, Flash All Taken Down at Pwn2Own How Facebook Prepared to Be Hacked...

Ryan McGeehan and Chad Greene

Ryan McGeehan, the director of incident response at Facebook and Chad Greene, the manager of the Facebook CERT on Thursday both explained how the social network has planned red team exercises in the past to prepare the company’s security team for a real attack...

Slideshow: Scenes from CanSecWest 2013

VIEW SLIDESHOW Scenes from CanSecWest 2013 The CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver last week included technical presentations on bypassing ASLR and DEP and the intricacies of Android research, as well as a fascinating talk on the red team exercises Facebook’s security team runs. We put...

Hacking Google users with Google's GooPass phishing attack

Google Drive is the new home for Google Docs, that users can access everywhere for Storing files safely. In a recent demonstration hacker successfully performed an attack on Google Docs to trick users to grab their Facebook, Gmail, Yahoo credentials with Credit Card Information. Security research...

Facebook Partners with Data Brokers for Better Ads

In late February, Facebook forged a partnership with four of its most prolific data brokers in order to more accurately target users with relevant advertisements. Facebook announced on Feb. 27 that it would be expanding its custom audiences tool, an earlier initiative designed to target users wit...

How Facebook Prepared to Be Hacked

VANCOUVER–When Facebook announced last month that its corporate infrastructure had been compromised through a watering-hole attack against several of its employees, it was major news, both because of the attack itself and because the company had come out and owned up to it. The interesting thing,...

Phishers hijacking Facebook Pages using apps

Another phishing campaign come in action recently targeting Facebook accounts and company pages with millions of followers. Phishers continue to devise new fake apps for the purpose of harvesting confidential information. Not a new method, but very creative phishing example in Facebook hacking...