Social Networks

Pierluigi Paganini December 24, 2017
Facebook’s photo tagging system now looks for users in photos they’re not tagged in

Facebook’s is rolling out a new feature for its photo tagging mechanism, it now looks for users in photos they’re not tagged in. Facebook is rolling out a new feature for its photo tagging mechanism that will now scan newly uploaded photos and alert all the users it recognizes in that photo. The feature aims to […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 22, 2017
Digmine Cryptocurrency Miner spreads via Facebook messenger

Researchers from security firm Trend Micro observed crooks spreading a new cryptocurrency mining bot dubbed Digmine via Facebook Messenger. Watch out for video file (packed in zip archive) sent by your friends via Facebook messenger, according to the researchers from security firm Trend Micro crooks are using this technique to spread a new cryptocurrency mining bot dubbed Digmine. The bot […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 27, 2017
Researcher found a vulnerability in Facebook polls that allowed removal of any photo

The Iran-based security researcher Pouya Darabi discovered a method to delete any photo from Facebook exploiting a flaw in the polling feature. The Iran-based security researcher Pouya Darabi received a $10,000 bounty from Facebook after reporting a critical vulnerability that could have been exploited to delete any photo from the social network. Early this month, the social network […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 18, 2017
Terabytes of US military social media surveillance miserably left wide open in AWS S3 buckets

Three AWS S3 buckets containing dozen of terabytes resulting from surveillance on US social media were left wide open online. It has happened again, other three AWS S3 buckets containing dozen of terabytes resulting from surveillance on US social media were left wide open online. The misconfigured AWS S3 buckets contain social media posts and similar pages […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 07, 2017
German users exploit a Twitter bug to post 30,000-character tweet

Over the weekend, two German Twitter users successfully bypassed the existing character limit by exploiting a Twitter bug and sending a 30,396-character tweet. Two German Twitter users, Timrasett and HackneyYT, were able to bypass the 280-character limit by posting a 30,000-character Tweet. Unfortunately, the side effect was that the long tweet caused problems, with some users complaining of crashes. […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 13, 2017
A new Facebook scam allows your friend contacts to hack your account

Researchers spotted a new Facebook scam that could deceive also tech-savvy people and trick them into giving the attacker access to their Facebook accounts. Don’t trust message apparently sent from any of your Facebook Friends asking for urgent help to recover their Facebook account. Researchers have spotted a new Facebook scam that could deceive also tech-savvy people and trick […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 21, 2017
H1 2017 – Twitter suspended a total of 935,897 accounts for the promotion of terrorism

Twitter published its Transparency Report related to H1 2017, the company suspended 935,897 accounts for the promotion of terrorism. Twitter suspends 299,000 accounts linked to terrorism in the first six months of 2017, the company revealed that 75 percent of the infringing accounts were suspended before their first tweet confirming the huge efforts in fighting online […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 12, 2017
Spain – Facebook slapped with €1.2M fine for violating data protection regulations

The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) has issued a €1.2 Million fine against Facebook for violating data protection regulations. Other privacy problems for the tech giant Facebook, the company has been fined for a series of privacy violations in Spain. The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) has issued a €1.2 Million fine against Facebook for violating data protection regulations. According […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 04, 2017
Taringa Data Breach, over 28 Million users affected

The data breach notification website LeakBase reported to the colleagues at THN the Taringa data breach, over 28 Million users’ data exposed. Taringa, also known as ‘The Latin American Reddit’, is a popular social network used by netizens in Latin America to create and share thousands of posts every day on general interest topics. The data breach notification […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 26, 2017
Watch out! Adware spreading via Facebook Messenger

Security experts from Kaspersky Lab have spotted an ongoing cross-platform malware campaign that leverages Facebook Messenger. Security experts from Kaspersky Lab have spotted an ongoing cross-platform malware campaign on Facebook Messenger, spammers are actually infecting users of all platform with adware. Users receive a video link that redirects them to a bogus website set up to lure them to […]