TikTok

Pierluigi Paganini November 23, 2020
TikTok fixed security issues that could have led one-click account takeover

TikTok has addressed a couple of security issues that could have been chained to led account takeover.  The first issue addressed by the social media platform is a reflected XSS security flaw that has been reported by the bug bounty hunter Muhammed “milly” Taskiran via the bug bounty platform HackerOne. The Cross-Site-Scripting flaw affected the company […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 17, 2020
TikTok launched a public bug bounty program

Chinese video-sharing social networking service TikTok announced this week the launch of a public bug bounty program in collaboration with HackerOne. The popular Chinese video-sharing social networking service TikTok has launched this week a public bug bounty program through the HackerOne platform. White hat hackers are invited to report security flaws in TikTok websites, including […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 01, 2020
Trump says he will ban popular Chinese video app TikTok in the US

President Donald Trump announced that he plans to ban the popular short video app TikTok from operating in the US as early as Saturday. President Donald Trump has announced he is going to ban the popular Chinese video-sharing app TikTok in the US. The US President is ready to sign an executive order as early […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 08, 2020
Security flaws allowed hijacking any TikTok account

A flaw in the popular TikTok app could allow attackers to hijack any user account just by knowing the mobile number of the victim. Security experts from CheckPoint have discovered a critical vulnerability in the popular TikTok app that could be exploited by a remote attacker to hijack any user account just by knowing the […]