A critical vulnerability in Facebook could have allowed threat actors to hijack any Facebook account, researcher warns. Meta addressed a critical Facebook vulnerability that could have allowed attackers to take control of any account. The Nepalese researcher Samip Aryal described the flaw as a rate-limiting issue in a specific endpoint of Facebookâs password reset flow. […]
Cybhorus CEO Pierluigi Paganini talks to TRT World about Elon Musk completing his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter and what changes he will make to the social media platform. Of course, the first impact will be on the leadership, Elon Musk was critical in the past with Agrawalâs leadership. Musk will also take action […]
NetBlocks reported partial disruption to social media and messaging platforms in Cuba from 12 July 2021 shortly after Cubans went to the streets to protest the government. Security experts from NetBlocks are observing partial disruption to social media and messaging platforms in Cuba from 12 July 2021 shortly after Cubans went to the streets to […]
A hacker has leaked claims to have breached pro-Trump GETTR and leaked the private information of almost 90,000 members on a hacking forum. GETTR is a new pro-Trump social media platform created by Jason Miller, a former Trump advisor, the Twitter-like platform suffered a data breach. The security breach comes a few hours after its […]
Google TAG is warning that North Korea-linked hackers targeting security researchers through social media. Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) is warning that North Korea-linked hackers targeting security researchers through social media. According to the Google team that focuses on nation-state attacks, a North Korea-linked APT group has targeted experts that are working on the research […]
Twitter has permanently suspended the account of President Donald Trump on Friday, due to the risk of further incitement of violence. Twitter has permanently suspended President Donald Trump’s account fearing his tweets may trigger a new wave of violence. In response to the attack on the U.S. Capitol, the Presidentâs account was initially suspended for […]
Facebook has addressed a security vulnerability in its Messenger for Android app that could have allowed attackers to spy on users. Facebook has addressed a major security issue in its Messenger for Android app that could have allowed threat actors to spy on users by placing and connecting Messenger audio calls without their interaction. The […]
Monika Bickert, Facebook for global policy management, announced that Facebook will ban deepfake videos and manipulated content. Facebook has announced it will ban deepfake videos, which are media that take a person in an existing image or video and replace them with someone else’s likeness using artificial neural networks. Monika Bickert, Facebook vice-president for global policy […]
Facebook disclosed a new security incident, the social network giant admitted that app developers may have accessed its group users’ data. Facebook disclosed another security incident, the company revealed that roughly 100 app developers may have improperly accessed users’ data in certain Facebook groups. Let’s understand how it is possible. The company explained that before […]
New problems to Facebook, phone numbers associated with more than 400 million accounts of the social network giant were exposed online. A new privacy incident involved Facebook, according to TechCruch, phone numbers associated with 419 million accounts of the social network giant were exposed online. The data was found by Sanyam Jain, a security researcher […]