How a Facebook Bug Took Down Spotify, TikTok, and Other Major iOS Apps

Thank a tiny change to a software development kit for widespread crashes Wednesday, including the Spotify and TikTok apps...

Watch: Flaw exploited to post fake COVID-19 clips from TikTok accounts

By Deeba Ahmed In their demonstration, researchers showed how they published fake COVID-19 videos from WHO and TikTok's official accounts. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Watch: Flaw exploited to post fake COVID-19 clips from TikTok accounts...

TikTok Flaw Allows Threat Actors to Plant Forged Videos in User Feeds

A security weakness in the popular TikTok video-sharing service allows a local attacker to hijack any video content streamed to a user’s TikTok feed and swap it out with hacker-generated content. Researchers created a proof-of-concept PoC hack using a technique called a man-in-the-middle MiTM...

Sen. Schumer Pushes for TSA Employee Ban on TikTok App at Work

The Transportation Safety Authority TSA has become the latest federal agency to ban the use of TikTok among its employees based on national-security fears over how ByteDance, the Beijing-based company that owns the app, uses the data collected by it. Some TSA employees have used the app to create...

A week in security (January 6 – 12)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we told readers how to check the safety of websites and their related files, explored the shady behavior taking place within the billion-dollar search industry, broke down the top six ways that hackers target retail businesses, and put a spotlight on the ransomware...

TikTok vulnerability allowed hackers to send SMS with malware

By Sudais How to hack the TikTok account with a malicious link in a text message? Well, it's possible as researchers noticed. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: TikTok vulnerability allowed hackers to send SMS with malware...

TikTok Riddled With Security Flaws

Researchers say they have discovered several major vulnerabilities in the short form video app TikTok. The reported vulnerabilities come as scrutiny around the Chinese-owned platform increases. Researchers say the most serious vulnerability in the platform could allow attackers to remotely take...

Researchers Demonstrate How to Hack Any TikTok Account by Sending SMS

TikTok, the 3rd most downloaded app in 2019, is under intense scrutiny over users' privacy, censoring politically controversial content and on national-security grounds—but it's not over yet, as the security of billions of TikTok users would be now under question. The famous Chinese viral...

Researchers Demonstrate How to Hack Any TikTok Account by Sending SMS

TikTok , the 3rd most downloaded app in 2019, is under intense scrutiny over users' privacy, censoring politically controversial content and on national-security grounds—but it's not over yet, as the security of billions of TikTok users would be now under question. The famous Chinese viral...

TikTok Bugs Could Have Allowed Account Takeovers

As the social media app continues to gain popularity, security researchers are taking a closer look under the hood...

The Army Bans TikTok

A million-dollar email scam, a Chinese hacking campaign, and more of the week's top security news...

TikTok's First Transparency Report Doesn't Tell the Full Story

The app says it didn’t receive any requests for user information from China during the first half of 2019. That might not reassure skeptics...

US Military Bans TikTok over privacy concerns

By Waqas No more cringy TikTok videos for the American military? This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: US Military Bans TikTok over privacy concerns...

TikTok Banned By U.S. Army Over China Security Concerns

With backlash swelling around TikTok’s relationship with China, the United States Army this week announced that U.S. soldiers can no longer have the social media app on government-owned phones. TikTok, a social media app used to create and share short form videos, is owned by Beijing-based parent...

TikTok, Under Scrutiny, Distances Itself From China

Three senators have called for an investigation into the social media app, which is owned by the Chinese tech giant ByteDance...

CVE-2019-14319

The TikTok formerly Musical.ly application 12.2.0 for Android and iOS performs unencrypted transmission of images, videos, and likes. This allows an attacker to extract private sensitive information by sniffing network traffic...

CVE-2019-14319

The TikTok formerly Musical.ly application 12.2.0 for Android and iOS performs unencrypted transmission of images, videos, and likes. This allows an attacker to extract private sensitive information by sniffing network traffic...

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The TikTok formerly Musical.ly application 12.2.0 for Android and iOS performs unencrypted transmission of images, videos, and likes. This allows an attacker to extract private sensitive information by sniffing network traffic...

CVE-2019-14319

The CVE-2019-14319 entry concerns the TikTok (formerly Musical.ly) 12.2.0 mobile app for Android and iOS. The underlying issue is unencrypted transmission of user-generated content and related metadata (images, videos, and likes), enabling an attacker on the network to sniff traffic and obtain pr...

CVE-2019-14319

The TikTok formerly Musical.ly application 12.2.0 for Android and iOS performs unencrypted transmission of images, videos, and likes. This allows an attacker to extract private sensitive information by sniffing network traffic...