Bumble: Open redirect helps to steal Facebook access_token

Description https://badoo.com/external/redirector.phtml is the endpoint used when authenticating using external services. This endpoint accepts the parameter state which is a base64 encoded URL. The URL can't be like http://google.com/, but it can be like http://google.com%2f.badoo.com/ which is ...

Facebook will Let You Send Self-Destructing Messages with Messenger App

Facebook is planning to offer you the popular Snapchat feature in its Messenger app – 'Self-Destructing' Messages. Yes, Facebook is testing a new feature within its Messenger app that will allow its users to send self-destructing messages. Some Facebook users in France have spotted this new featu...

Tor Messenger

Tor Project launched its first beta version of Tor Messenger – its long-in-the-works, open source instant messenger client based on Instantbird. The Messenger is designed for both simplicity and privacy by default: It integrates the “Off-the-Record” OTR protocol to encrypt messages and routes the...

openSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox (openSUSE-2015-678)

MozillaFirefox was updated to version 41.0.2 to fix one security issue. This security issue was fixed : - CVE-2015-7184: Cross-origin restriction bypass using Fetch bsc950686. These non-security issues were fixed : - Fix a startup crash related to Yandex toolbar and Adblock Plus bmo1209124 - Fix...

Security update for MozillaFirefox (important)

MozillaFirefox was updated to version 41.0.2 to fix one security issue. This security issue was fixed: - CVE-2015-7184: Cross-origin restriction bypass using Fetch bsc950686. These non-security issues were fixed: Fix a startup crash related to Yandex toolbar and Adblock Plus bmo1209124 Fix...

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook Discuss the Apple and Oracle Patches, Facebook Detecting Nation-State Attacks and More

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week: How Facebook will begin warning users of nation-state attacks, all the Apple and Oracle patches, and the latest attacks against the Network Time Protocol NTP. Download: newswrap10-23-15.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Facebook to Notify Users of Targeted Attacks

Facebook will inform users when it believes their account is being either being targeted by an attacker, or has been compromised by a nation-state campaign. Alex Stamos, Facebook’s Chief Security Officer, announced the initiative in a post on Facebook’s Security page late Friday afternoon. Users...

Facebook Will Now Notify You If NSA is Spying on You

Facebook just launched a new notification feature that will alert you if the social network strongly suspects that your account is being hijacked or targeted by hackers working in the interest of a nation-state. The message, which you can see below, recommends users to turn ON "Login Approvals," ...

Rosetta-Flash JSONP Vulnerability

Overview This description taken from the pull request provided by Patrick Kettner. Versions 6.1.0 and earlier of hapi are vulnerable to a rosetta-flash attack, which can be used by attackers to send data across domains and break the browser same-origin-policy. Recommendation - Update hapi to...

THN Weekly RoundUp – 12 Hacking Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week

Here we are with our weekly roundup, showcasing last week's top cyber security threats and challenges. Just in case you missed any of them ICYMI, THN Weekly Round-Up helps you provide all important stories of last week in one shot. We advise you to read the full story just click ‘Read More’ becau...

Facebook to Launch Its Own Satellite to Beam Free Internet

Do you hear the same as me? Is Facebook planning to Launch Satellite? Yes, it's True. Facebook has revealed its secret plan to launch a $500 Million Satellite by 2016 in order to provide Free or cheap Internet access in the developing nations. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made an announcement tha...

Bumble: Tokens from services like Facebook can be stolen

Description This file https://mus1.badoo.com/cb.html looks for the parameters accesstoken, token and code in the URL and send the value back to the window.opener using window.opener.postMessagemessage, '';. Because you specified as the value of the second parameter of postMessage, the browser is...

Imgur: Open Url redirection on login with facebook

steps to produce: 1, go to the site imgur.com and login with facebook and if you are new user then u must be asked for username on the link https://imgur.com/register/thirdparty/facebook?redirect=http://imgur.com/ nw just change the parameter redirect= value to https://google.com and hit enter an...

Here's How to Get Facebook New 'Dislike Button' to Your Profile

You may call this a misleading headline. Right? Yes, it's True. And I apologize for this. But… ...before someone else tricks you to visit any malicious link with intent to hijack your Computer or to Hack Facebook Profile, I just tricked you to visit this 'WARNING' article about Facebook Scam of t...

Here's What Facebook 'Dislike or Empathy Button' Would Look Like

A Facebook Dislike button is one of the most frequently requested features from users for years. Earlier in the last week, Facebook finally confirmed its plans to add a Dislike or Empathy to your Facebook Profile and News Feed. If you are thinking that Facebook Dislike is going to be a thumbs-dow...

Facebook to Add a 'Dislike' Button, Mark Zuckerberg Confirms

When a pet dies, or your friend's family member passed away, clicking the 'Like' button to express your sympathy doesn't feel comfortable. Here a user feels a need of something to express their sadness, disagreement, anger, or something other than 'Like': Facebook should have an empathetic...

Warning! How Hackers Could Hijack Your Facebook Fan Page With This Trick

Facebook bounty hunter Laxman Muthiyah from India has recently discovered his third bug of this year in the widely popular social network website that just made a new record by touching 1 Billion users in a single day. At the beginning of the year, Laxman discovered a serious flaw in Facebook...

Mark's Milestone: 1 Billion People Uses Facebook in A Single Day

Yesterday, Facebook Co-founder and Chairman Mark Zuckerberg broadcast in his Facebook post, that Monday Facebook made a record by counting ONE BILLION people accessing Facebook in a single day. Zuckerberg shared his happiness and thanked the world. He was overwhelmed with the milestone Facebook h...

Facebook M: Facebook's Answer to Siri, Cortana and Google Now

Microsoft's 'Cortana', Google's 'Google Now', Apple's 'Siri', Now meet Facebook's 'M.' Facebook's announcement to introduce their Personal Digital Assistant “M” comes with powers within the Facebook Messenger. It is a similar virtual assistant like Google Now, Apple's Siri and Microsoft's smart...

Hack Codegen - Facebook Open-Sources Code That Writes Code

Good news for Open Source Lovers! Facebook has open-sourced Hack Codegen – its library for automatically generating Hack code, allowing outside developers to automate some of their routine work while developing large programs. HACK is the Facebook's own programming language designed to build...