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Facebook, which has suffered the biggest ever outage in its history, is struggling to deal with it. The partial outage that affected some users of Facebook and other platforms owned by Facebook, including Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram, seems to be abating. CNN.com reports that Facebook had to use the services of its rival Twitter […]
As per a BBC report, the hackers appear to have found a way to steal the private messages of thousands of Facebook users — 81,000 to be exact. While most of the compromised accounts are from Russia and Ukraine, some are also from US, UK, Brazil, and other nations. This revelation originally comes from the BBC Russian Service. […]
Update: The Taiwanese hacker has suspended his plans to attack Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page and make attempts to delete it. “I am canceling my live feed, I have reported the bug to Facebook and I will show proof when I get bounty from Facebook, to delete it,” he said on his page. Original story continues […]
Shadowave is site that generates a profile/phishing link to send and obtain the victims credentials. How to hack facebook account using Shadowave Go to shadowave’s website here Click on Sign up. Fill all the information and click Sign Up. After some time you will be automatically get login to your account. Click on first link (English) […]
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, […]
Short Bytes: A widely-reported flaw in ImageMagick, an open source tool, was used by a hacker to crack Facebook’s servers with remote code execution. The bug, possibly, allows the attacker to upload malicious images that help in the compromise. Bug hunger Andrew Leonov claims that Facebook issued him $40,000 bug bounty in last October. We’ve contacted […]
Short Bytes: A security researcher has uncovered a loophole in Facebook’s security that allows a hacker to listen to you private Facebook voice messages sent over chat. This is possible due to the lack of proper authentication and HSTS policy on Facebook’s CDN servers. While Facebook has acknowledged the bug, it’s yet to patch it. […]
Short Bytes: The notorious hackers are using Facebook messenger to spread dangerous Locky ransomware. They are sending malicious .SVG files in Messenger to lure the users into downloading further malware. The users need to immediately check their Chrome extensions and look for suspecting entries. They are also advised to change the Facebook passwords. Security researchers have […]
Short Bytes: A white hat hacker from California has shown how easily he could’ve exploited Facebook’s password reset mechanism to hack numerous Facebook accounts. He even hacked the account of a random Facebook user by collecting 2 million valid Facebook IDs and requesting their password reset codes in a short period of time. Then, he […]
Short Bytes: A security researcher has located a flaw in Facebook’s device login feature that allows one to easily authorise apps on IoT devices. Due to the lack of CSRF protection, an attacker can fool Facebook’s systems and grab the access_token of the victim. Facebook has now fixed the bug and awarded $5,000 bounty to the […]
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, […]
Short Bytes: If you lead the life of a penetration tester or a bug hunter, your job offers you new challenges every day. A similar incident happened when a security researcher stumbled upon another hacker’s backdoor script while hacking Facebook. Utilizing the SQL injection flaw in FTA application, he was able to take control over the […]
Short Bytes: By exploiting a flaw in Facebook’s beta sites, a security researcher has shown how to hack any Facebook account in simple steps. The vulnerability dealt with the password reset method that allowed the hacker to brute force any account and gain complete access. Facebook has now fixed this flaw and awarded him $15,000 […]
Facebook’s is always changing and its team is adding new functionality every couple of months. With new changes there are chances of affecting security and introducing vulnerabilities explains an information security company expert. This month search feature got a major upgrade and this tool will now let people exploit all posts on the friends and […]
Short Bytes: To make your favorite social network more secure, Facebook is now sending out notifications to the compromised accounts. Facebook mentions that government-sponsored attacks are more sophisticated and suggests to turn the 2-step login method. Did you recently suspect some suspicious activity on your Facebook account? Well, many of you would be aware of […]