Facebook to Pay $5 Billion Fine to Settle FTC Privacy Investigation

After months of negotiations, the United States Federal Trade Commission FTC has approved a record $5 billion settlement with Facebook over its privacy investigation into the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The settlement will put an end to a wide-ranging probe that began more than a year ago and...

Facebook to Pay $5 Billion Fine to Settle FTC Privacy Investigation

After months of negotiations, the United States Federal Trade Commission FTC has approved a record $5 billion settlement with Facebook over its privacy investigation into the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The settlement will put an end to a wide-ranging probe that began more than a year ago and...

Post-Data Breach, British Airways Slapped With Record $230M Fine

UPDATE A record $230 million fine has been proposed against British Airways after a 2018 data breach impacted 500,000 of the airline’s customers. If approved, the fee would be the biggest General Data Protection Regulation GDPR fine to be issued to a company so far. On Monday, the Information...

Facebook and Instagram suffer massive outage

By Uzair Amir You are not alone; Facebook and Instagram are down for almost everyone in Europe and America. Another day, another service outage at social media giant Facebook and its subsidiary company Instagram. Yes, Facebook and Instagram have been hit by a worldwide service outage forcing both...

Facebook Removes Accounts Used to Infect Thousands With Malware

Facebook has shut down more than 30 accounts spreading malware through malicious links that purport to be news about the ongoing political situation in Libya. The campaign, ongoing since 2014, has infected tens of thousands of victims with remote access trojans RATs, according to researchers. The...

Popular Android Zombie game phish users to steal Gmail credentials

By Waqas The app made its way to Google Play Store was also found phishing users for Facebook credentials. Scary Granny ZOMBY Mod: The Horror Game 2019 is the latest game on Google Play Store that is condemned by the digital security fraternity for sneakily stealing personal data from unsuspectin...

Zomato: Self-Stored XSS - Chained with login/logout CSRF

NOTE! This report explains taking over an account in a single click by chaining stored XSS, WAF bypass, login and logout CSRF. Summary: Attacker can takeover someone's account by stealing their facebook / google login tokens chaining multiple vulnerabilities. Description: Attacker leaves a review...

Facebook HHVM Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Facebook HHVM aka HipHop Virtual Machine is a virtual machine from Facebook that significantly improves the performance of loading dynamic pages in PHP. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in HHVM. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to gain direct access to an application,...

WordPress Facebook for WooCommerce plugin <= 1.9.12 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability allowing Option Update

Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability allowing Option Update found in WordPress Facebook for WooCommerce plugin versions = 1.9.12. Solution Update the WordPress Facebook for WooCommerce plugin to the latest available version at least 1.9.14...

Facebook Faces Lawsuit Over Massive 2018 Data Breach

Facebook lost a key court ruling last week and now must face a lawsuit tied to a data breach of its platform disclosed in 2018, which impacted nearly 30 million of its users. The data breach, first disclosed by Facebook in September 2018, directly impacted the access tokens of 30 million accounts...

The Official Facebook Chat Plugin < 1.3 - CSRF

The The Official Facebook Chat Plugin WordPress plugin was affected by a CSRF security vulnerability...

Facebook for WooCommerce <= 1.9.12 - CSRF allowing Option Update

The original issue has been fixed via 1.9.14. However, as additional CSRF checks have been implemented in 1.9.15, the fixed in has been set to 1.9.15...

Irked Researcher Discloses Facebook WordPress Plugin Flaws

UPDATE A WordPress security researcher claims he has found two WordPress plugins developed by Facebook called Facebook for WooCommerce and Messenger Customer Chat. The researcher claims both have cross-site request forgery flaws. The researcher published the bugs on the Plugin Vulnerabilities...

Cuvva: Unclaimed facebook page at www.cuvva.com/about

Description: Hello sir, while I was surfing your website I found unclaimed facebook page at www.cuvva.com/about F503171 when you click this button you will be redirected to https://www.facebook.com/getcuvvad which was unclaimed but I claimed it as poc steps to reproduce: 1. go to...

Mozilla and Google Browsers Get Security, Anti-Tracking Boosts

Browsers Firefox and Chrome received updates this week, both adding security and privacy tools that help with password management and help block sites that track users. Mozilla’s Firefox browser introduced an “Enhanced Tracking Protection” feature that blocks over 1,000 third-party companies that...

WWDC 2019: Apple Takes Aim at Facebook on Privacy

Apple took a swipe at Facebook at its Worldwide Developers’ Conference WWDC on Monday, unveiling fresh privacy features for the upcoming version of its iOS operating system for iPhone and iPad iOS 13. Most notably, it took the wraps off of an authentication mechanism that will allow users to sign...

Facebash - Facebook Brute Forcer In Shellscript Using TOR

Facebook Brute Forcer in shellscript using TOR IG: @thelinuxchoice Legal disclaimer: Usage of Facebash for attacking targets without prior mutual consent is illegal. It's the end user's responsibility to obey all applicable local, state and federal laws. Developers assume no liability and are not...

Get the Facebook Marketplace sellers precise location information-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! This article share it with Facebook Marketplace sales system associated with the user information leakage vulnerability through which the vulnerability can obtain the release of goods the seller's accurate to the latitude and longitude and zip code and other specific location information...

Snapchat Privacy Blunder Piques Concerns About Insider Threats

Snap, the company behind the popular Snapchat social media app, has found itself in hot water after a recent report revealed that Snap employees were abusing their access to private user data – which includes location data, saved Snaps and phone numbers. According to a Thursday Motherboard report...

WordPress Live Chat with Facebook Messenger plugin <= 1.4.6 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Stored Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability found in WordPress Live Chat with Facebook Messenger plugin versions = 1.4.6. Solution Update the WordPress Live Chat with Facebook Messenger plugin to the latest available version at least 1.4.7...