A questionable practice by the social network giant Asking users’ phone numbers and then using them for advertising campaigns, this is just one more in the long list of deceptive and invasive Facebook practices to generate revenues through personal information from your users. In a contradictory manner to users’ expectations and their recent statements, the […]
Scammers continue to adapt with new techniques to trick user’s and make them fall as a victim. Scammers always impose limits such as “call immediately” or “Offer Valid Today only” to make you act on it immediately. Security researchers from Symantec spotted a new Tech Support Scam that adopts to call optimization service for inserting […]
Enterprise network security experts explain that spoofing occurs when someone makes a call and deliberately modifies the information shown to the person who receives the call, thus hiding his/her identity. The person interested in hiding his/her information may choose a phone number and it will be shown to the call receiver. By surfing the Internet […]
Online travel booking website Yatra.com was compromised and attackers steal 5 Million user records that include email address & physical addresses, phone numbers & plain text passwords & PINs. The Yatra.com data breach happened back in 2013, and it came to light now, data breach recorder vigilante.pw first noticed the breach, according to Have I Been […]
A Tinder user’s phone number- that’s all that a hacker could need, to take over the account itself, as per recent reports on a newly detected Tinder vulnerability. Anyhow, it’s reported that the issues have been plugged promptly… Indian security engineer Anand Prakash, the founder of the cyber security firm AppSecure, has detected this vulnerability […]
The bug exposed customers’ email addresses, their billing account numbers, and the phone’s IMSI numbers. T-Mobile has patched the bug. Until last week, a bug on a T-Mobile website let hackers access personal data such as email address, a customer’s T-Mobile account number, and the phone’s IMSI, a standardized unique number that identifies subscribers. On Friday, […]
The security of SMS-based two-factor authentication has been long-debated. Despite flaws in Signalling System No. 7 (SS7), which is an internationally used telecom protocol to route texts and calls, it continues to be used at a large scale in banking and other services. The security researchers Positive Technologies have shown how a bitcoin wallet can […]
A bug that exposed users’ contact information affected a far greater number of accounts than Instagram originally said. The bug, which appears to have been responsible for Selena Gomez’s account being hacked this week, allowed hackers to scrape email addresses and contact information for millions of accounts, Instagram said today. (It has since been fixed.) While […]
A leaked document appears to contain the personal telephone numbers and email addresses for actors such as Peter Dinklage, Lena Headey and Emilia Clarke.
Earlier today, we reported the second leak after the last week’s HBO hack that affected Game Of Thrones Season 7 and other TV shows. During the first leak, hackers claimed that they’ll be soon leaking more information and unreleased episodes. It was followed by Game of Thrones S07E04 leak which was allegedly related to Star […]
According to UnicornTeam, a group of Chinese researchers from country’s leading security firm 360 Technology, there is a dangerous vulnerability in 4G LTE network’s Circuit Switched Fallback (CSFB) which allows hackers to hijack cell phone numbers. Unicorn Team demonstrated the findings (PDF) on Sunday at the Black Hat USA 2017 hacker summit. As per the team […]
We all know that in most cases, Facebook users are required to submit their phone number while registering with the social network. This is how they can link their phone with the profile so that when a user forgets the password, they can prove his authenticity and receive a new password on their smartphone. However, […]
Short Bytes: A programmer has found an easy way to hack random Facebook accounts whose owners have connected the accounts to their phone numbers. If you’re changing your phone number, there are chances that your old number will be given to someone else. If the new owner of that number attempts to perform Facebook login, […]
A new adware family named Crusader will rewrite tech support phone numbers returned in Google search results, display ads, and show popups pushing tech support scams. Current versions of Crusaders are installed on victims’ computers via software bundles. Users usually download a free application, whose installer also adds Crusader. The adware takes the form of […]
Short Bytes: WhatsApp recently updated their terms and privacy policy. They have decided to share your WhatsApp contact number with Facebook to enable communication between you and various businesses which would also contribute to the escalation of Facebook’s ad revenues. WhatsApp has updated its “terms and privacy policy for the first time in four years”. […]
WhatsApp is owned by Facebook and from now own it will own users’ data as well — WhatsApp will now share users’ phone number with Facebook to ”fight spam, to offer ‘better friend suggestions [and] more relevant ads.’ In 2014, Facebook bought WhatsApp, leaving users in shock and uncertainty about the privacy of their chats based on the […]
How to hack a Facebook account? that’s an answer everyone wants to know. Though there are many ways to get into someone’s Facebook these researchers have demonstrated how to hack anyone’s account with just their phone number! There are about a billion users of Facebook nowadays which constitutes to about a sixth of the world’s […]
Even where users have chosen strong passwords and taken extrasecurity measures, their Facebook FB -0.29% accounts are not safe from hackers. Researchers have proven just that by taking control of a Facebook account with only a phone number and some hacking skills to exploit the SS7 network, a core piece of telecoms infrastructure shown to be vulnerable repeatedly […]
Short Bytes: By exploiting the SS7 flaw, a hacker can hack someone’s Facebook account just by knowing the associated phone number. This flaw allows a hacker to divert the OTP code to his/her own phone and use it to access the victim’s Facebook account. The security researchers, who have explained the hack in a video, […]
If it can happen to her, chances are it can happen to lots of people. In a scenario that’s growing increasingly common, the chief technologist of the US Federal Trade Commission recently lost control of her smartphone after someone posing as her walked into a mobile phone store and hijacked her number. Details of the incident […]
SS7 routing protocol also exposes locations, contacts, and other sensitive data. A US congressman has learned first-hand just how vulnerable cellphones are to eavesdropping and geographic tracking after hackers were able to record his calls and monitor his movements using nothing more than the public ten-digit phone number associated with the handset he used. The stalking […]