Researcher: I Hacked Trump’s Twitter by Guessing Password

Dutch ethical hacker Victor Gevers claims it only took five attempts to guess the password to President Donald Trump’s Twitter account — “maga2020!”. That’s all he needed to hijack the @realdonaldtrump handle, according a report from Dutch newspaper de Volksrant, because it lacked even the most...

Researcher logs into Trump’s Twitter with password MAGA2020

By Waqas The Dutch researcher Victor Gevers guessed the password as MAGA2020 and noticed Trump did not use two-step verification on his Twitter account. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Researcher logs into Trumps Twitter with password MAGA2020...

X (Formerly Twitter): The Deleted Polls is Still Accessable after 30 Days

A vulnerability was found in Twitter that allowed users to access a deleted Poll beyond the 30-day limit set by Twitter. The Poll was not visible or accessible via the user interface, but it could still be accessed for an extended period of time. This could compromise the privacy of the user's...

The Impossible Dilemma of Twitter’s ‘Hacked Materials’ Rule

The company’s flip-flopping on the policy after banning a shady New York Post story highlights the challenges facing social media in 2020...

Twitter Analytics Open Redirect

================================================================================Twitter Analytics Open Redirect Vulnerability ================================================================================ Credit by Asheesh Anaconda Description An open redirect vulnerability exists in Twitter...

MedDream PACS Server 6.8.3.751 - Remote Code Execution (Authenticated)

!/usr/bin/python Exploit Title: MedDream PACS Server 6.8.3.751 - Remote Code Execution Authenticated Exploit Author: bzyo Twitter: @bzyo Exploit Title: MedDream PACS Server 6.8.3.751 - Remote Code Execution Authenticated Date: 2020-10-01 Vulnerable Software:...

VideoBytes: Twitter gets hacked!

Hello dear readers, and welcome to the latest and greatest from VideoBytes: a brand new, video feature that we announced just yesterday. On our debut post today, were talking to you about the Twitter hack, in which hackers accessed the Twitter accounts of 130 high profile figures, like Barack...

Twitter removes Iranian accounts disrupting US presidential debate

By Deeba Ahmed The account holders were chattering about disrupting the first US Presidential Debate on Tuesday. Its only been a month when Microsoft warned about possible attempts of state-sponsored cybercriminals, particularly Iranian hackers, to disrupt the upcoming US presidential elections...

Introducing VideoBytes, by Malwarebytes Labs

We have exciting news for avid readers of Malwarebytes Labs: This week, we’re launching a new, monthly video series that will feature the research, insights, and commentary of our own Adam Kujawa, security evangelist and a director for Malwarebytes Labs. Welcome to VideoBytes, our little corner o...

Twitter Warns Developers of API Bug That Exposed App Keys, Tokens

Twitter developers are being warned of a security bug that may have exposed their applications’ credential information – including sensitive application keys and access tokens. The issue stemmed from a caching issue in developer.twitter.com. When developers visited this website, it temporarily...

PwnedPasswordsChecker - Search (Offline) If Your Password (NTLM Or SHA1 Format) Has Been Leaked (HIBP Passwords List V5)

PwnedPasswordsChecker is a tool that checks if the hash of a known password in SHA1 or NTLM format is present in the list of I Have Been Pwned leaks and the number of occurrences. You can download the hash-coded version for SHA1 here or the hash-coded version for NTLM here Once the list is...

Inside the Twitter Hack—and What Happened Next

On July 15, a massive Twitter hack rocked the inside and out. On Election Day, that's not an option...

Man-in-the-Middle (MitM)

twitter-stream is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle MitM. Lack of hostname validation allows an attacker to perform a man-in-the-middle attack to intercept and modify network traffic...

Unsecured Microsoft Bing Server Exposed Users' Search Queries and Location

A back-end server associated with Microsoft Bing exposed sensitive data of the search engine's mobile application users, including search queries, device details, and GPS coordinates, among others. The logging database, however, doesn't include any personal details such as names or addresses. The...

X (Formerly Twitter): Bypass Password Authentication to Update the Password

Summary: This additional security measure from twitter provides protection to the victim's account, considering that a victim's session may have been hijacked by a hacker, however, due to this additional layer of security Implemented by twitter the hacker would not be able to change the victim's...

New Twitter phishing scam inspired from Twitter’s latest security response

By Sudais Asif Crooks are using the July 15th's cyberattack on Twitter to carry out phishing scam designed to steal the login credentials of unsuspected users. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New Twitter phishing scam inspired from Twitters latest security response...

helper_project (1.3.0), twitter-buddy (>=1.0.0, <=1.0.4) potentially affected by unknown CVE via requst (0.0.1-security)

requst NPM version 0.0.1-security is affected by a known vulnerability. The following packages have a transitive dependency on requst and may be impacted: - helperproject 1.3.0 - twitter-buddy =1.0.0, =1.0.4 Source cves: unknown CVE Source advisory: OSV:GHSA-8QX4-R7FX-XC4V...

Mail.ru: Broken twitter link hijacking at https://games.mail.ru/pc/search/

Link on https://games.mail.ru/pc/search/ page was pointing to invalid twitter account...

Indian PM Modi’s Twitter handle hacked to ask for Bitcoin donations

By Deeba Ahmed Hackers posted tweets from the personal Twitter account of PM Modi asking for donations in Bitcoin. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Indian PM Modi’s Twitter handle hacked to ask for Bitcoin donations...

hyurservice.am Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-1299474

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspa. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspb. notified the website operator about its existence...