Facebook admits public data of its 2.2 billion users has been compromised

Facebook dropped another bombshell on its users by admitting that all of its 2.2 billion users should assume malicious third-party scrapers have compromised their public profile information. On Wednesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that "malicious actors" took advantage of "Search" too...

CVE-2017-1000005

PHPMiniAdmin version 1.9.160630 is vulnerable to stored XSS in the name of databases, tables and columns resulting in potential account takeover and scraping of data stealing data...

CVE-2017-1000005

PHPMiniAdmin version 1.9.160630 is vulnerable to stored XSS in the name of databases, tables and columns resulting in potential account takeover and scraping of data stealing data...

Cross site scripting

PHPMiniAdmin version 1.9.160630 is vulnerable to stored XSS in the name of databases, tables and columns resulting in potential account takeover and scraping of data stealing data...

CVE-2017-1000005

PHPMiniAdmin 1.9.160630 is affected by a stored XSS vulnerability in database, table, and column name fields. The issue enables an attacker to inject malicious content that can lead to account takeover and data scraping, as described in multiple sources (NVD, CNVD, CVE records). The underlying ca...

CVE-2017-1000005

PHPMiniAdmin version 1.9.160630 is vulnerable to stored XSS in the name of databases, tables and columns resulting in potential account takeover and scraping of data stealing data...

Attackers Dropping Kasidet Bot via Office Macros

It’s well documented that attackers have reignited their love affair with the Office macro, using it as a vector for spreading banking malware and even the BlackEnergy Trojan as of late. According to researchers at the San Jose security company zScaler, the bot Kasidet, also known as Neutrino, ha...

LinkedIn Sends Cease-and-Desist to Sell Hack Plug-In Maker

UPDATE: The makers of the controversial Sell Hack browser plug-in responded this afternoon to a cease-and-desist order from LinkedIn and confirmed their extension no longer works on LinkedIn pages and that all of the publicly visible data it had processed from LinkedIn profiles has been deleted...

Facebook Apps Caught Selling User Data to Brokers

Facebook's privacy issues are like a centipede with countless shoes dropping. There seems to be no end to them. Recently, the Wall Street Journal reporters revealed that Facebook apps have been inadvertently sharing user identities with advertisers. Companies like Rapleaf use Facebook data to...