Twitter Draws Data Privacy Concerns with Two New Bugs

Two recently-patched flaws in Twitter’s platform have reignited concerns about user data-privacy issues. On Monday, the social-media giant revealed a hole that accidentally enabled bad actors to pull the country codes of accounts’ phone numbers – and revealed that several IP addresses located in...

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 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Facebook on Friday disclosed a bug in its platform that it said enabled third-party apps to access unpublished photos of 6.8 million users.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...

Facebook Breach Sparks Concerns Around Third-Party Apps, Website Security

Days after Facebook acknowledged a data breach of its platform – impacting 50 million accounts – the company said it has found no evidence that attackers accessed any apps using Facebook Login. But security experts are still on edge that the breach could have let attackers access third-party apps...

Facebook Finds 'No Evidence' Hackers Accessed Connected Third-Party Apps

When Facebook last weekend disclosed a massive data breach—that compromised access tokens for more than 50 million accounts—many feared that the stolen tokens could have been used to access other third-party services, including Instagram and Tinder, through Facebook login. Good news is that...

Facebook Finds 'No Evidence' Hackers Accessed Connected Third-Party Apps

When Facebook last weekend disclosed a massive data breach—that compromised access tokens for more than 50 million accounts—many feared that the stolen tokens could have been used to access other third-party services, including Instagram and Tinder, through Facebook login. Good news is that...

Hackers Exploit Facebook Bug, As Twitter DMs (Maybe) Got Misrouted

In our latest security news digest, we check out the Facebook hack heard 'round the world, a Twitter bug that rattled users but may not amount to much, and a pair of serious Linux kernel vulnerabilities. Facebook scrambles to investigate major breach affecting tens of millions of users The cyber...

Facebook Broadens Its Bug Bounty to Include Third-Party Apps

Starting Monday, Facebook will pay at least $600 to researchers who spot third-party apps behaving badly on its platform...

How To Check If Your Twitter Account Has Been Hacked

Did you ever wonder if your Twitter account has been hacked and who had managed to gain access and when it happened? Twitter now lets you know this. After Google and Facebook, Twitter now lets you see all the devices—laptop, phone, tablet, and otherwise—logged into your Twitter account. Twitter h...

Design/Logic Flaw

An issue was discovered on Orbic Wonder Orbic/RC555L/RC555L:7.1.2/N2G47H/329100b:user/release-keys devices. Any app co-located on the device can send an intent to factory reset the device programmatically because of com.android.server.MasterClearReceiver. This does not require any user interactio...

Instagram Adds 3 New Security Tools to Make its Platform More Secure

Instagram is growing quickly—and with the second most popular social media network in the world behind just Facebook, the photo-sharing network absolutely dominates when it comes to user interactions. And with great success comes great responsibility—responsibility to keep users' accounts safe,...

Fortnite Skips Google Play For Android Apps, Irking Security Experts

Security experts are dismayed after the makers of extremely popular video game Fortnite said its Android version of the game will only be available for download via the company’s website, shirking the Google Play store. Last week, Fortnite creator Epic Games confirmed that it will directly...

2016PilotOneClick

This is a collection of utilities and scripts to gain root access on a 2016 model Honda Pilot head unit and simplify the installation of third-party non-Honda apps. The scripts implement a dirtyCOW exploit to gain root access and use a bash script to automate the installation process. The scripts...

Bug Bounty Programs Turn Attention to Data Abuse

More companies – particularly social media firms – may follow Facebook’s footsteps in turning to bug bounty programs to scout out any data privacy abuse on their platforms, experts say. On the heels of Facebook’s Cambridge-Analytica scandal in March, the social media giant launched a “Data Abuse...

Facebook Bolsters Privacy Measures With New Data Access Restrictions

Facebook on Wednesday listed a number of new data access restrictions as the social media company looks to reassure end users that their personal information will remain private. The new measures, detailed in a post by Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer, limit the personal data that apps can collect...

Facebook Cracks Down On Data Misuse With Expanded Bug Bounty Program

Facebook said in the coming weeks it will expand its bug bounty program in an attempt to crackdown on data misuse by third-party app developers. The company’s bug bounty program, first started in 2011, prompts researchers to find vulnerabilities on the social media platform – but now will be...

Facebook and Cambridge Analytica – What's Happened So Far

Top Story— Facebook has just lost over $60 billion in market value over the past two days—that's more than Tesla's entire market capitalisation and almost three times that of Snapchat. Facebook shares plunge over revelations that personal data of 50 million users was obtained and misused by Briti...

Apple To Fix Glitch Allowing Siri To Read Hidden Messages Out Loud

Apple has confirmed a privacy bug in its iPhone that allows the Siri voice assistant to read out messages from locked screens – even if the messages are hidden. First discovered by Brazilian website Mac Magazine, the privacy bug enables anyone to access third-party hidden messages that appear as...

Mobile's customized "Magic Box" smart set-top box has smart hardware vulnerabilities

Smart Set Top Box is a set top box product from ZTE Corporation. A smart hardware vulnerability exists in the mobile customized "Magic Box" smart set-top box. An attacker can use the vulnerability to communicate with the device using a ttl line, log in to the operating system without password...