Why it’s Time to Switch from Facebook Login to a Password Manager

Social media sites are increasingly the focus of our digital lives. Not only do we share, interact and post on platforms like Facebook —we also use these sites to quickly log into our favorite apps and websites. But what happens when these social media gatekeepers are hacked? Awhile back, Faceboo...

Christmas tech scams roundup

There’s a fair few Christmas tech scams floating around out there as 2018 winds up, and we thought it’d be a good time to warn you about them. It’s the usual mish-mash of phone antics, social media shenanigans, and click bait. Shall we begin? This scam looks divine BOOM reports on a collection of...

Facebook Admits Giving Partners Access to Messages

UPDATE Facebook has admitted that it dealt several messaging partnerships with tech giants, giving them read, write and delete access for Facebook messages. The confirmation comes on the heels of a bombshell New York Times article, Tuesday, which leveraged internal documents to show that Facebook...

Facebook’s Rough History of Failed User Revolts

Outraged over the latest Facebook privacy flap, half of users polled Tuesday promise to un-friend the social network. We have heard this refrain before. It seems almost weekly now some new dirt about the social media giant’s misuse of consumer data is revealed. Recently, there was the collection ...

Facebook gave Amazon, Netflix, Spotify & others access to private user data

By Waqas Facebook allowed Netflix, Spotify, Amazon, Microsoft, Yandex and Royal Bank of Canada unprecedented access to its users' private data. The social media giant Facebook has been making headlines for all the wrong reasons lately. Now, according to reports, Facebook allowed video streaming...

Threatpost Poll: Do You Hate Facebook?

Facebook is under fire again after a bombshell report went live, claiming it has had broad data-sharing arrangements with Amazon, Apple, Netflix and others for years. We’re wondering if this changes how you use Facebook in your everyday life. An exhaustive investigation in the New York Times on...

Facebook Fights Back on Secret Data-Sharing Partnerships

UPDATE Facebook is hitting back after a new report on Tuesday said that the company struck broad data-sharing partnerships with more than 150 companies, including Apple, Amazon and Netflix, exempting them from its normal data privacy terms and conditions. An exhaustive investigation in the New Yo...

A week in security (December 10 – 16)

Last week on Labs, we took a look at some new Mac malware, a collection of various scraped data dumps, the protection of power grids, and how bad actors are using SMB vulnerabilities. Other cybersecurity news Millions affected by Facebook photo API bug: An issue granted third-party apps more acce...

Facebook And Google Reviews System For Businesses - CSRF (Change Admin Password)

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Facebook And Google Reviews System For Businesses 1.1 - SQL Injection Vulnerability

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Facebook And Google Reviews System For Businesses 1.1 - Remote Code Execution

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Facebook bug exposed private photos of 6.8M users to third-party developers

By Waqas Another day, another privacy breach - This time, the social media giant Facebook has announced that a bug in its Photo API exposed private photos of over 6.8 million users to third-party app developers. The breach took place from September 13 to September 25, 2018, which means for 12 day...

New Facebook Bug Exposed 6.8 Million Users Photos to Third-Party Apps

Facebook's latest screw-up — a programming bug in Facebook website accidentally gave 1,500 third-party apps access to the unposted Facebook photos of as many as 6.8 million users. Facebook today quietly announced that it discovered a new API bug in its photo-sharing system that let 876 developers...

New Facebook Bug Exposed 6.8 Million Users Photos to Third-Party Apps

Facebook's latest screw-up — a programming bug in Facebook website accidentally gave 1,500 third-party apps access to the unposted Facebook photos of as many as 6.8 million users. Facebook today quietly announced that it discovered a new API bug in its photo-sharing system that let 876 developers...

Facebook Exposed 6.8 Million Users' Photos to Cap Off a Terrible 2018

In the latest in its long string of 2018 incidents, Facebook let developers access the private photos of millions of users...

Facebook Flaw Exposes Private Photos for 6.8M Users

Facebook on Friday disclosed a bug in its platform that it said enabled third-party apps to access unpublished photos of 6.8 million users. Facebook stores copies of photo drafts, so if someone uploads the photo but doesn’t finish posting it, the photo will still be stored in the platform’s...

At a New York Privacy Pop-Up, Facebook Sells Itself

The one-day pop-up kiosk is meant to show that Facebook takes users’ privacy concerns seriously. It also was an opportunity to gather more data...

Facebook And Google Reviews System For Businesses 1.1 - Remote Code Execution

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Facebook And Google Reviews System For Businesses 1.1 SQL Injection

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Facebook And Google Reviews System For Businesses 1.1 - SQL Injection

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