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Facebook exposed user data to thousands of app developers
By Zara Khan Facebook 'Privacy Matters' reveals 5000 app developers accessed user data. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Facebook exposed user data to thousands of app developers...
Facebook Privacy Glitch Gave 5K Developers Access to ‘Expired’ Data
Facebook is facing yet another privacy faux pas in how its users’ data is collected and used by third-party apps. The social media giant said that it recently discovered that 5,000 developers received data from Facebook users — long after their access to that data should have expired. In 2018, on...
Android Apps Stealing Facebook Credentials
Google has removed 25 Android apps from its store because they steal Facebook credentials: Before being taken down, the 25 apps were collectively downloaded more than 2.34 million times. The malicious apps were developed by the same threat group and despite offering different features, under the...
“I think you appear in this video” phishing scam hijacks Facebook accounts
By Waqas "I think you appear in this video" Facebook phishing scam is spreading like wildfire. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: "I think you appear in this video" phishing scam hijacks Facebook accounts...
Facebook and Twitter Want to Keep the Justice System Skewed Against Defendants
Their CEOs have pledged support for reform amid the George Floyd protests—while their lawyers are fighting to preserve law enforcement’s advantage in court...
Facebook's FTC-Mandated Privacy Committee Now in Effect
Facebook on Thursday said it has started to report its privacy practices to a newly formed, independent Privacy Committee. The creation of the independent committee was part of the company’s settlement a year ago with the Federal Trade Commission FTC over data privacy violations, which came in...
Rockstar Games: SocialClub Account Take Over Through Import Friends feature
In this report, the researcher identified a vulnerability in a Social Club feature intended to allow users to import their friends list from Facebook and other social media sites. However, if a targeted victim were to visit a crafted site containing a specific malicious script that exploited this...
A week in security (June 8 – 14)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we looked into nasty search hijackers that worried a lot of Chrome users; a list of considerations for MSPs when looking for an RMM platform; the complaint faced by ParetoLogic, the company that issues SpeedyPC, a product that claims to find and remove various PC...
How Big Tech Leveraged Agile Principles to Build Empires
By Waqas We all know who the big 5 tech firms are. Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Facebook, and Google are... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How Big Tech Leveraged Agile Principles to Build Empires...
Facebook Helped Develop a Tails Exploit
This is a weird story: Hernandez was able to evade capture for so long because he used Tails, a version of Linux designed for users at high risk of surveillance and which routes all inbound and outbound connections through the open-source Tor network to anonymize it. According to Vice, the FBI ha...
A Bug in Facebook Messenger for Windows Could've Helped Malware Gain Persistence
Cybersecurity researchers at Reason Labs, the threat research arm of security solutions provider Reason Labs, today disclosed details of a vulnerability they recently discovered in the Facebook Messenger application for Windows. The vulnerability, which resides in Messenger version 460.16, could...
A Bug in Facebook Messenger for Windows Could've Helped Malware Gain Persistence
Cybersecurity researchers at Reason Labs, the threat research arm of security solutions provider Reason Labs, today disclosed details of a vulnerability they recently discovered in the Facebook Messenger application for Windows. The vulnerability, which resides in Messenger version 460.16, could...
How Facebook Helped FBI Capture a Notorious Child Abuser
By Waqas Facebook did something unexpcted. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How Facebook Helped FBI Capture a Notorious Child Abuser...
Facebook 'Manage Activity' Is a Long Overdue Privacy Feature
The new Manage Activity feature will let you archive and bulk delete posts for the first time...
Facebook Announces Messenger Security Features that Don't Compromise Privacy
Note that this is "announced," so we don't know when it's actually going to be implemented. Facebook today announced new features for Messenger that will alert you when messages appear to come from financial scammers or potential child abusers, displaying warnings in the Messenger app that provid...
FinalRecon - The Last Web Recon Tool You'll Need
FinalRecon is a fast and simple python script for web reconnaissance. It follows a modular structure so in future new modules can be added with ease. Featured NullByte https://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/how-to/conduct-recon-web-target-with-python-tools-0198114/...
Exclusive: Hacker selling 500 million Facebook user data from 82 countries
By Waqas The entire database is being sold for $30,000 on a hacker forum. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Exclusive: Hacker selling 500 million Facebook user data from 82 countries...
Personal data of 12 million Facebook users exposed online
By Sudais Asif Another day, another Facebook breach! This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Personal data of 12 million Facebook users exposed online...
NSO Group Impersonates Facebook Security Team to Spread Spyware — Report
According to an investigative journalist team, the Israeli authors of the infamous Pegasus mobile spyware, NSO Group, have been using a spoofed Facebook login page, crafted to look like an internal Facebook security team portal, to lure victims in. The news comes as Facebook alleges that NSO Grou...