Pierluigi Paganini
March 21, 2019
News problems for Facebook that admitted to have stored the passwords of hundreds of millions of users in plain text. Facebook revealed to have stored the passwords of hundreds of millions of users in plain text, including passwords of Facebook Lite, Facebook, and Instagram users. “As part of a routine security review in January, we […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2019
Facebook paid a $25,000 bounty for a critical cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability that could have been exploited to hijack accounts simply by tricking users into clicki on a link. The white hat hacker who goes online with the moniker âSamm0udaâ discovered a critical CSRF vulnerability in Facebook and the social network giant paid a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 01, 2019
Facebook took down hundreds of fake accounts from Iran that were involved in a vast manipulation campaign active in more than 20 countries. Facebook took down 783 inauthentic accounts, pages and groups from Iran that were involved in a vast manipulation campaign active in more than 20 countries. “The world’s biggest social network said it […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 30, 2019
Facebook is paying teens $20 a month to use its VPN app, called Facebook Research, that monitors their activity via their mobile devices.Facebook is paying teens $20 a month to use its VPN app, called Facebook Research, that monitors their activity via the mobile devices. 2018 was a terrible year for Facebook that was in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 18, 2019
A bug in the Twitter app for Android may have had exposed tweets, the social media platform revealed on Thursday. The bug in the Android Twitter app affects the âProtect my Tweetsâ option from the accountâs âPrivacy and safetyâ settings that allows viewing user’s posts only to approved followers. People who used the Twitter app […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 14, 2019
German watchdog is going to ask Facebook changes to protect privacy and personal information of its users. The news was first reported by the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag, German regulators are going to request Facebook changes in its platforms aimed at protecting privacy and personal data of its users. The German watchdog want to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 18, 2018
Twitter discovered a possible nation-state attack while it was investigating an information disclosure flaw affecting its platform. Experts at Twitter discovered a possible state-sponsored attack while they were investigating an information disclosure vulnerability affecting its support forms. The experts discovered that the attack was launched from IP addresses that may be linked to nation-state actors. The flaw affected […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 16, 2018
Researcher Terence Eden discovered that the permissions dialog when authorizing certain apps to Twitter could expose direct messages to the third-party. The flaw is triggered when apps that require a PIN to complete the authorization process instead of the using the OAuth protocol. The expert discovered that some permissions such as that to access direct messages, remained […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 14, 2018
New problems for Facebook, the social network giant announced that a bug related to Photo API could have allowed third-party apps to access usersâ photos. Facebook announced that photos of 6.8 Million users might have been exposed by a bug in the Photo API allowing third-party apps to access them.  The bug impacted up over 870 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 28, 2018
A British MP claims Facebook was ware about Russian political interference in 2014, long before the events become public. The British MP Damian Collins, head of a parliamentary inquiry into disinformation, revealed that one of the emails seized from US software company Six4Three as part of a US lawsuit, demonstrates that a Facebook engineer had notified the social network giant in October […]
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