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Short Bytes: Your desire to master the art of Facebook hacking can harm you in a big way. Recently, a variant of Remtasu malware has been spotted in the wild that can hack your Facebook, instead of your friend’s account. Surprisingly, this malware always finds a way to remain on the system even after the victim reboots […]
Experts Discover the Dangers of Using apps like ‘Be Like Bill’ Facebook Meme Generator The immensely popular Be Like Facebook Meme generator app isn’t as harmless as it appears to be and if necessary, precautions aren’t undertaken while trying to create a meme, you could expose yourself to possible dangers. For some while, security experts […]
WhatsApp is working on making your chats more secure by introducing end-to-end encryption along with a much deeper Facebook integration. A developer by the name of Javier Santos shared a few screenshots on Google Plus that adheres to the changes mentioned above. When we connect the dots, WhatsApp’s co-founder Jan Koum spoke of adding end-to-end […]
Facebook patched the issue in about six hours. British security researcher Jack Whitton has identified a critical XSS (cross-site scripting) vulnerability on Facebook that could be leveraged via malicious PNG images and grant an attacker access to someone’s account. Mr. Whitton discovered that he could use steganography to craft a malicious PNG image which would hold […]
If you receive an email claiming to have a ”new message” from Facebook just delete it because the attachment contains Nivdort malware Party is over for Facebook’s security team as a fresh wave of malware attacks has been launched. This time, the campaign is targeted against the e-commerce related users of Facebook because mainly businesses […]
Two weeks ago, the Comodo Threat Research Lab discovered a malware campaign aimed at businesses and consumers using the WhatsApp mobile messaging service. That attack used official looking emails masquerading as WhatsApp content. Now Comodo’s researchers have identified a similar phishing campaign targeting Facebook users, which it believes was created by the same group behind […]
Ohio man Sends Selfie To Police Saying It is a “better photo” than the “terrible” mug shot and Gets Arrested It has now been proven that even Most Wanted people can have bad picture days and the 45-year old Donald “Chip” Pugh has recently witnessed the same. Pugh was arrested in Florida and was due […]
Privacy seekers and admirers have every reason to rejoice since Facebook is bringing TOR, the free anonymizing software to support its android application. This is a surprising turn of events but if we recall, Facebook already announced its plan to make the social network directly available on TOR network back in 2014. This is indeed […]
Short Bytes: If you are interested in increasing the security and privacy of your network traffic, here’s a great news for you. Facebook has just rolled out experimental TOR support for its Android app. Well, Facebook still needs your real name and information — how is that a way to stay anonymous? These are the […]
Privacy protection or criminal activity prevention? UK Government faces battle against tech companies on a hot matter UK Government drafted a plan for a new law that would legalize hacking “deeds” on computer systems by law enforcement authorities. Giant tech companies such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft – just to name a few- are ready […]
Brain Test malware is back. Its developers compromised 13 apps on the Google Play Store, Lookout cyber security firm discovered last December. Google reacted promptly. Check Point Mobile Threat Prevention had first found two Brain Test malicious apps in September. Google removed the threats less than a week later. A similar story back in October […]
The terrorists first murdered the female journalist Ruqia Hassan and then hacked her Facebook account to spy on her contacts. The terrorist from Daesh/ISIS terrorist hacked into the Facebook account of a female journalist (Ruqia Hassan) whose execution was kept secret by the group for 3 months to gain information on her friends and colleague through her […]
The famous messaging service WhatsApp is down around the world with people complaining on Twitter how they can’t connect, send or receive messages from their friends and families. Users in UAE, India, Pakistan, Brazil, US and countries in Europe are reporting that the messaging service is down. A live outage map for all the regions […]
Crooks are targeting English and Portuguese speaking Facebook users with “Holidays special offers malware scam.” It’s that time of the year when social media is full of free stuff from marketers who want to gather as many leads as possible and possibly convert them later on — Giveaways or discounts are the best marketing practices […]
Facebook’s plan to bring limited, free internet access to India has hit a hurdle: a regulator in the country wants it blocked. India’s telecom regulator has asked that the service be disabled while investigating whether it poses a threat to net neutrality. In particular, the regulator is concerned about whether phone carriers should be allowed to […]
Cybercriminals are using the friendly face of Facebook and Twitter to distribute banking trojans that are specifically targeting Brazilians. The attackers are targeting Brazilian Portuguese-speaking users and are using social engineeringtactics to trick them into downloading a Spy Banker Trojan, according to a Dec. 10 Zscaler blog post. The threat actors use the social media platform […]
Yahoo has announced it will follow in the footsteps of Twitter and Facebook and begin warning users when it believes their accounts have been targeted by a state-sponsored actor. Bob Lord, who was hired as the company’s new CISO in October, discussed the initiative in a blog post Monday. Lord said Yahoo will only notify users […]
Wesley Wineberg, an independent security researcher, participating in Facebook’s bug bounty program, managed to crack his way through Instagram defenses and almost get complete control over the service. Soon after the researcher disclosed the vulnerability to Facebook, the company threatened to sue, instead of paying the reward he was due for his work. Mr. Wineberg started […]
Facebook doesn’t appreciate the effort, threatens to sue. Wesley Wineberg, an independent security researcher, participating in Facebook’s bug bounty program, managed to crack his way through Instagram defenses and almost get complete control over the service. Soon after the researcher disclosed the vulnerability to Facebook, the company threatened to sue, instead of paying the reward he […]
Attackers carry out SMS fraud via the infected phones. The Android/OpFake and the Android/Marry malware families, two banking trojans targeting mobile devices, have (improperly) stored their C&C servers inside Facebook Parse, the company’s BaaS (Backend-as-a-Service) offering. BaaS is a cloud-based service that provides mobile app developers with ready-made tools, in the form of APIs, on which […]
Short Bytes: Leaving behind the tech giants like Google, Facebook, LinkedIn etc., short-term rental startup Airbnb has made it to the top of Glassdoor’s annual list of best companies to work for in 2016. Read more to see the whole list. Career website Glassdoor has just released its 8th annual edition of Employees’ Choice Awards. […]