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Private data of 540 million Facebook users exposed in plain text
By Waqas Unprotected Amazon Web Services has a new victim and it's Facebook users. It’s just been a year since the Cambridge Analytics scandal made headlines the world in which Facebook failed to secure its users’ information. Now the cybersecurity firm UpGuard’s researchers have identified the...
Facebook Exposed Data Again, but This Viral Cat Can Save Lives
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Third-Party Apps Exposed Over 540 Million Facebook Records
A cybersecurity firm found that two different third-party Facebook apps left millions of records about users sitting unprotected on Amazon’s servers...
540 Million Facebook User Records Found On Unprotected Amazon Servers
It's been a bad week for Facebook users. First, the social media company was caught asking some of its new users to share passwords for their registered email accounts and now… ...the bad week gets worse with a new privacy breach. More than half a billion records of millions of Facebook users hav...
540 Million Facebook User Records Found On Unprotected Amazon Servers
It's been a bad week for Facebook users. First, the social media company was caught asking some of its new users to share passwords for their registered email accounts and now… ...the bad week gets worse with a new privacy breach. More than half a billion records of millions of Facebook users hav...
Facebook Data of Millions Exposed in Leaky Datasets
UPDATE Hundreds of millions of Facebook records – including account names, personal data, and more – have been found in two separate publicly-exposed app datasets. The first publicly-exposed dataset originates from a Mexico-based media company, Cultura Colectiva, and contains over 540 million...
Facebook Caught Asking Some Users Passwords for Their Email Accounts
Facebook has been caught practicing the worst ever user-verification mechanism that could put the security of its users at risk. Generally, social media or any other online service asks users to confirm a secret code or a unique URL sent to the email address they provided for the account...
Facebook Caught Asking Some Users Passwords for Their Email Accounts
Facebook has been caught practicing the worst ever user-verification mechanism that could put the security of its users at risk. Generally, social media or any other online service asks users to confirm a secret code or a unique URL sent to the email address they provided for the account...
A week in security (March 25 – 31)
Last week, we looked at plugin vulnerabilities, location tracking app problems, and talked about plain text password woes. We also looked at federal data privacy regulation and took a deep dive into BatMobi Adware. Other cybersecurity news Poisoned software update headache for ASUS Source: The...
Cyber Security Week in Review (March 28)
Welcome to this week's Cyber Security Week in Review, where Cisco Talos runs down all of the news we think you need to know in the security world. Top headlines this week ASUS had to release an emergency fix for a malware that may have accidentally deployed to their machines. Attackers may have...
Facebook’s plain text misstep, and other password sins
Two days after an article by Brian Krebs disclosed that hundreds of millions of Facebook account passwords had been stored in plain text for years, Facebook released a statement indicating they hash and salt passwords, more or less in accordance with industry best practice. Plain text storage of...
New Settings Let Hackers Easily Pentest Facebook, Instagram Mobile Apps
Facebook has introduced a new feature in its platform that has been designed to make it easier for bug bounty hunters to find security flaws in Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram Android applications. Since almost all Facebook-owned apps by default use security mechanisms such as Certificate...
WordPress social-networks-auto-poster-facebook-twitter-g plugin cross-site scripting vulnerability
WordPress is a set of WordPress Software Foundation's blogging platform developed using the PHP language, which supports setting up personal blog sites on servers with PHP and MySQL.WordPress social-networks-auto-poster-facebook-twitter-g is a plugin. A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists i...
Critical DoS Bug Bubbles Up in Facebook Fizz TLS 1.3 Project
A critical denial-of-service DoS vulnerability in Facebook’s open-source implementation of the transport layer security TLS 1.3 protocol could cause an infinite loop – thus disrupting any web service that relies on it. Kevin Backhouse, a researcher at Semmle, discovered the bug in the project...
Facebook stored 600m user passwords in plain text exposed to 20k employees
By Uzair Amir The company says it discovered the issue in January and there is no need to change passwords. The social media giant Facebook has revealed that its internal data storage systems saved user passwords in plain text that could be accessed by employees. The social media said an ongoing...
Your Facebook Password Isn’t Safe. Neither Is Your Android Phone
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CVE-2019-9911
CVE-2019-9911 concerns the WordPress plugin NextScripts: Social Networks Auto-Poster (Facebook-Twitter-G), specifically versions prior to 4.2.8. The vulnerability is an XSS in the admin endpoint wp-admin/admin.php?page=nxssnap-reposter&action=edit, which can be triggered in the affected context. ...
Facebook Mistakenly Stored Millions of Users' Passwords in Plaintext
Holy moly, Facebook is again at the center of a new privacy controversy after revealing today that its platform mistakenly kept a copy of passwords for "hundreds of millions" users in plaintext. What's more? Not just Facebook, Instagram users are also affected by the latest security incident. So,...
Facebook Mistakenly Stored Millions of Users' Passwords in Plaintext
Holy moly, Facebook is again at the center of a new privacy controversy after revealing today that its platform mistakenly kept a copy of passwords for "hundreds of millions" users in plaintext. What's more? Not just Facebook, Instagram users are also affected by the latest security incident. So,...