Social Networks

Pierluigi Paganini June 15, 2016
Hacking Facebook Accounts with just a phone number through the SS7 protocol

Hacking Facebook Accounts with just a phone number is possible, experts from Positive Technologies demonstrated it exploiting flaws in the SS7 protocol. Hacking Facebook accounts by knowing phone numbers it is possible, a group of researchers from Positive Technologies demonstrated it. “Researchers have proven just that by taking control of a Facebook account with only a phone number […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 07, 2016
Facebook fixed a flaw in the Messenger App.Doubts on its severity

Security experts discovered a security vulnerability in the Facebook Messenger App that allows hackers to replace the content of the messages they send. Security experts from Check Point early this week reported a serious vulnerability in the Facebook Messanger App that could be exploited by attackers to replace the content of the messages they send […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 06, 2016
Mark Zuckerberg hacked by the hacking crew OurMine Team

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hacked, a group of young hackers known as OurMine Team took over its Pinterest, Twitter, LinkedIn accounts. No one is secure when dealing with cyber security, event the popular Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. His social media accounts Pinterest, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn were hacked. On Sunday, A group of hackers using the […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 01, 2016
Iran orders media companies to store data in the country

Iran orders foreign social media and instant messaging companies to use servers in the country to store all data related to the Iranian citizens. The Iranian Government spends a significant effort for the Internet monitoring and control, its activities often lead to a concrete censorship. Last year the Government of Teheran has blocked Telegram and many other social networking companies due to […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 21, 2016
Lawsuit claims Facebook scanned private messages to make profits

Facebook might have violated federal privacy laws by scanning users’ private messages.Users launched a class action against the IT giant. Once again we are discussing privacy issues and IT giants, this time, the attention is on Facebook that has been sued for illegally scanning the private messages of its unaware users. In Northern California, users have launched […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 09, 2016
Twitter closes the access to the Intel Agencies to Analysis Service

Twitter has blocked the US intelligence agencies from accessing a service that allows the real-time analysis of the content posted online. According to The Wall Street Journal, that cited a senior US intelligence official, Twitter has blocked US intelligence agencies from accessing a service that analyzes the content posted online through the social media platform in […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 27, 2016
Crooks abuse Facebook app platform for phishing attacks

Crooks are abusing the Facebook app platform to carry out some very insidious phishing attacks against the users of the popular social network. Security researchers at Netcraft spotted a new insidious phishing campaign that leveraged Facebook’s own trusted TLS certificate that is valid for all facebook.com subdomains. The phishing page is designed to look like a […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 23, 2016
Facebook passes the 1 million Tor users Milestone

Facebook announced that the number of its users accessing through the Tor network has passed 1 million. The number is calculated over a period of 30 days. Facebook has announced Friday that it has passed 1 million Tor users. As announced in a blog post, the number is calculated over a period of 30 days. “Over […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 22, 2016
Facebook hacked, someone deployed a malicious webshell on its server

Facebook hacked!  The security expert Orange Tsai discovered the presence of a malicious webshell on one of the company servers. The security expert Orange Tsai from the DevCore firm has found a malicious web shell on Facebook Server. The researcher was analyzing the Facebook’s infrastructure when noticed a domain called files.fb.com. Intrigued, the expert has tried to access […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 19, 2016
The CIA’s Massive Expansion in Social Media Surveillance is Just the Tip of the Iceberg

The US intelligence is massively expanding in Social Media surveillance pushing new technologies, including artificial intelligence for data mining In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital firm, has been pursuing various new technologies, including artificial intelligence for data mining, computer algorithms that can detect insider threats and robots which are able to seize delicate objects. This is […]