Twitter security snafu: change your passwords

If you're logging into Twitter after having been AWOL for a day or two, you'll likely be seeing one of these pop-ups talking about account security: Click to enlarge Don't panic, it's nothing that can't be fixed. The message reads as follows: Keeping your account secure When you set a password fo...

A bug stored Twitter passwords in plain text so change your password

By Carolina Twitter, the social network, and online news giant is sending notifications This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: A bug stored Twitter passwords in plain text so change your password...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of April 30, 2018

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Change Your Twitter Password Immediately, Bug Exposes Passwords in Plaintext

Twitter is urging all of its 330 million users to change their passwords after a software glitch unintentionally exposed its users' passwords by storing them in readable text on its internal computer system. The social media network disclosed the issue in an official blog post and a series of...

Twitter to All Users: Change Your Password Now!

Twitter just asked all 300+ million users to reset their passwords, citing the exposure of user passwords via a bug that stored passwords in plain text -- without protecting them with any sort of encryption technology that would mask a Twitter user's true password. The social media giant says it...

Twitter Urges Users to Change Passwords Due to Glitch

Twitter said Thursday that a glitch caused account passwords to be stored in plain text on an internal log, sending users across the platform scrambling to change their passwords. The social media company said that it found and has fixed the glitch, and its investigation shows no indication of a...

Scammers bought Twitter ads to run verified badge phishing scam

By Waqas Would you believe that the verification program approved by Twitter This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Scammers bought Twitter ads to run verified badge phishing scam...

Twitter Sold Data To Cambridge Analytica-Linked Company

Twitter is the latest company to face scrutiny for how it protects user data, after disclosing this week that it sold data access to a Cambridge Analytica-linked researcher. The news comes a month after Facebook came under fire for leaking user data to Cambridge Analytica through a third-party ap...

WordPress plugin "Open Graph for Facebook, Google+ and Twitter Card Tags" vulnerable to cross-site scripting

Overview The WordPress plugin "Open Graph for Facebook, Google+ and Twitter Card Tags" provided by Webdados contains a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability CWE-79. Chris Liu reported this vulnerability to IPA. JPCERT/CC coordinated with the developer under Information Security Early Warni...

JVN#08386386: WordPress plugin "Open Graph for Facebook, Google+ and Twitter Card Tags" vulnerable to cross-site scripting

The WordPress plugin "Open Graph for Facebook, Google+ and Twitter Card Tags" provided by Webdados contains a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability CWE-79. Impact An arbitrary script may be executed on a logged in user's web browser. Solution Update the plugin Update the plugin according t...

WordPress Open Graph for Facebook, Google+ and Twitter Card Tags Plugin Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

WordPress is a set of WordPress Software Foundation's blogging platform developed using the PHP language, which supports personal blog sites on servers with PHP and MySQL. A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in the WordPress Open Graph for Facebook, Google+ and Twitter Card Tags plugin,...

Linux/x86 execve /bin/sh Encoded Shellcode (44 bytes)

/ ; Title : Execve /bin/sh Shellcode encoded with ROT-13 + RShift-2 + XOR ; Date : April, 2018 ; Author : Nuno Freitas ; Blog Post : https://bufferoverflowed.wordpress.com/slae32/slae-32-shellcode-encoder/ ; Twitter : @nunof11 ; SLAE ID : SLAE-1112 ; Size : 44 bytes ; Tested on : i686 GNU/Linux...

Ericsson-LG iPECS NMS A.1Ac - Cleartext Credential Disclosure

Ericsson-LG iPECS NMS A.1Ac - Cleartext Credential Disclosure -- coding: utf-8 -- Exploit Title: Ericsson-LG iPECS NMS - Cleartext Cred. Dump Vendor Notification: 03-03-2018 - No response Initial CVE: 04-04-2018 Disclosure: 21-04-2018 Exploit Author: Berk Cem Göksel Contact: twitter.com/berkcgoks...

RGui 3.4.4 - Local Buffer Overflow

!/usr/bin/python Exploit Author: bzyo CVE: CVE-2018-9060 Twitter: @bzyo Exploit Title: R 3.4.4 - Local Buffer Overflow Date: 03-27-2018 Vulnerable Software: R 3.4.4 Vendor Homepage: https://www.r-project.org/ Version: 3.4.4 Software Link: https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/windows/ Tested On: Window...

X (Formerly Twitter): XSS via Direct Message deeplinks

Description: By using a specially crafted payload as the value of the text parameter in a Direct Message deeplink, a malicious user can inject arbitrary HTML tags and possibly run arbitrary JavaScript code on the "twitter.com" origin. Steps To Reproduce: 1. Create a Direct Message deeplink by...

Beers with Talos EP27: Smart Install, Vuln Process Realities, and Professional Wrestling

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast Episode 27 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing: www.talosintelligence.com/podcast EP27 Show Notes: Recorded 4/13/18 - We just upgraded all our gear, so naturally we had a straight tech...

Chris Vickery Discusses Data Leak of 48 Million Users by Private Intelligence Firm

SAN FRANCISCO – Profile data of 48 million users that was scraped from social networks and websites ranging from Facebook, LinkedIn, Zillow and Twitter was leaked by a private intelligence agency. The data was left on an Amazon S3 storage bucket accessible without a password by Localblox, the...

Sandcat Browser 6.0 - Pentest And Developer-Oriented Web Browser

Sandcat is a lightweight multi-tabbed web browser that combines the speed and power of Chromium and Lua. Sandcat comes with built-in live headers, an extensible user interface and command line console, resource viewer, and many other features that are useful for web developers and pen-testers and...

Tinfoleak v2.4 - The Most Complete Open-Source Tool For Twitter Intelligence Analysis

The most complete open-source tool for Twitter intelligence analysis Introduction tinfoleak is an open-source tool within the OSINT Open Source Intelligence and SOCMINT Social Media Intelligence disciplines, that automates the extraction of information on Twitter and facilitates subsequent analys...

CVE-2015-4557

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the newTwittersignbutton function in nextend-Twitter-connect.php in the Nextend Twitter Connect plugin before 1.5.2 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the redirectto parameter. NOTE: this may overlap...