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Pierluigi Paganini April 14, 2019

Whatsapp, Instagram, Facebook down worldwide

FACEBOOK down: Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp services have gone down in Europe, US, Malaysia, and worldwide leaving millions of users furious. Facebook services including Instagram and Whatsapp are facing a widespread outage. The outage of Facebook services happens one month after the longest outage in history. Users in Europe, Malaysia and some parts of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 18, 2018

Instagram glitch exposed some user passwords

Instagram has suffered a serious security leak that might have exposed user’s passwords, revealed The Information website. Instagram notified some of its users that it might have accidentally exposed their password due to a security glitch. According to a company spokesperson, the bug was “discovered internally and affected a very small number of people.” The news […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 15, 2018

Hundreds of Instagram accounts were hijacked in a coordinated attack

Hundreds of Instagram accounts were hijacked in what appears to be the result of a coordinated attack, all the accounts share common signs of compromise. Alleged attackers have hijacked Instagram accounts and modified personal information making impossible to restore the accounts. The number of Instagram accounts that was hacked has increased since the beginning of […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 19, 2016

Abusing Two-factor authentication to steal money from Instagram, Google and Microsoft

A security expert revealed a number of flaws in the big player’s two-factor authentication methods that could allow crooks to steal money. Social media bug bounty hunter, Arne Swinnen, has revealed a number of flaws in the big player’s 2 factor authentication (2FA) methods that could enable a malicious user to illicit large sums of […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 19, 2015

Instagram hacked! Hacker compromised the entire platform

The researcher who hacked Instagram claims he was threatened by Facebook after he responsibly reported a series of security issues. Every platform is potentially hackable, even the armored Facebook and Instagram and the independent security researcher Wesley Weinberg has demonstrated it. Of course, if the hackers ethically report the flaw to the company usually nothing happen, but the […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 25, 2015

Instagram API could be exploited to serve malicious links

A security researcher has discovered a reflected filename download vulnerability affecting the Instagram API that could be exploited to share malicious links. The security researcher David Sopas from WebSegura has discovered a serious vulnerability in the Instagram API that could be exploited by hackers to post a link to a web resource they manage. By exploiting […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2015

Lizard Squad claims to have brought down both Facebook and Instagram

Both social network platforms Facebook and Instagram went down on Tuesday while Lizard Squad hacking team claims responsibility for an alleged DDoS attack. A couple of the most popular social networks Facebook and Instagram went down for at least 40 minutes on Tuesday, the official motivation is a technical outage, but the popular hacking crew Lizard Squad claims to have […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 10, 2014

UNHcFREG researchers disclosed flaws dozen Android apps

Researchers from the UNHcFREG (University of New Haven) is publishing on YouTube a series of videos to disclose vulnerabilities in a dozen Android apps. Experts at the University of New Haven’s Cyber Forensics Research and Education Group (UNHcFREG) have decided to disclose vulnerabilities in a dozen Android apps, including the popular mobile applications Instagram, Vine and OKCupid. […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 28, 2014

Instagram Adroid App affected by account session Hijacking flaw

A security researcher disclosed a serious issue on Instagram’s Android Application which could be exploited by an attacker to impersonate a victim. A security issue related to Instagram Mobile App for Android expose the users’ account to serious risks of data breach. A security researcher discovered that the Instagram Mobile App is affected by a Hijacking vulnerability which could be […]

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Whatsapp, Instagram, Facebook down worldwide

Instagram glitch exposed some user passwords

Hundreds of Instagram accounts were hijacked in a coordinated attack

Abusing Two-factor authentication to steal money from Instagram, Google and Microsoft

Instagram hacked! Hacker compromised the entire platform

Instagram API could be exploited to serve malicious links

Lizard Squad claims to have brought down both Facebook and Instagram

UNHcFREG researchers disclosed flaws dozen Android apps

Instagram Adroid App affected by account session Hijacking flaw

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