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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 […]
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 […]