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New Privilege Escalation Bug Identified in Windows OS. Recently a Twitter user, using the handle SandboxEscaper, disclosed that the Microsoft Windows OS has a zero-day vulnerability, which is yet unknown to the company. Tweeting on the microblogging platform, the user stated: “Here is the alpc bug as 0day. I don’t f**king care about life anymore. […]
Facebook and Twitter report having suspended or banned accounts linked to Iran and Russia campaigns Over 650 Facebook pages and groups that had been identified as “misleading” by their cyber security organization teams have been banned, while Twitter presumes to have suspended 284 accounts with alleged links to Iranian groups. These announcements have been released just one day after Microsoft assured […]
Pentest specialists argue that social platforms can be a tool used for psychological warfare operations (PSYOPS) and malicious web campaigns, which is why Twitter has implemented new security features to identify and stop these abuses. Malicious agents set up bots to spread advertisements and links to dubious content websites, and social media platforms are dedicating significant efforts […]
Twitter urges all of it’s 330 Million users to change the password immediately after a Twitter bug identified in their internal system that exposed the passwords in plain text. To mask the password twitter uses the hashing function “bcrypt” that replaces the actual password to a random number and stored in the Twitter system. Due […]
Cambridge Analytica and Facebook have been in the headlines for past one month for all the wrong reasons. Now, as per the latest revelation, Twitter is facing flak for selling data to Cambridge Analytica-linked researcher, Aleksandr Kogan. In a statement to The Telegraph, Twitter has confirmed that Aleksandr Kogan’s commercial enterprise had purchased one-time Twitter API […]
Sky News reported Sunday that the U.S.-based social networking giant is looking to roll out a policy in the next two weeks that will block ads associated with cryptocurrency wallets, exchanges and initial coin offerings, with limited exceptions. In an email, a Twitter representative said the company would not comment for now, but also did […]
Short Bytes: After the death of Linkin Park’s Chester Bennington, a hacker apparently targeted his grieving widow’s Twitter account. The hacker posted 6 disgusting tweets, which have since been deleted. “He didn’t kill himself, he was already dead before he hung himself, I have proof,” one tweet read. Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington hanged himself […]
Security researchers have discovered a new intelligent way (DoubleSwitch) currently used by attackers to take over Twitter accounts verified and rename famous people for spreading false news. The fact is that social networks when used strategically over time is the most powerful form of marketing and market research that the world has seen but sharing […]
Argentinean security researcher Manuel Caballero has discovered another vulnerability in Microsoft’s Edge browser that can be exploited to bypass a security protection feature and steal data such as passwords from other sites, or cookie files that contain sensitive information. The vulnerability is a bypass of Edge’s Same Origin Policy (SOP), a security feature that prevents […]
A Twitter user by the name @EugenePupov is trying to take credit for the massive phishing attack that hit Gmail users last night, and which attempted to trick users into granting permission for a fake Google Docs app to access their Gmail inbox details. While Google intervened and stopped the self-spreading attack about an hour […]
[jpshare]Critical Microsoft Edge Vulnerability Allows to steal the cookies and password revealed by Recent Research by PoC (Proof-of-Concepts) .This Vulnerability Discovered under bypass the Same Origin Policy (SOP). This Vulnerability Allows to Bypass the victims cookies by force them to access the Malicious URL in Microsoft Edge browser. This Vulnerability has been tested in Twitter […]
Starting today, we’re going to run occasional round-ups of the other stories going on in tech that we couldn’t cover in separate articles. Twitter changes default avatar Late Friday afternoon, Twitter announced it was giving up on the famous “egg,” its default avatar, which it introduced way back in 2010. One of its distinctive marks, […]
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Twitter announced on Tuesday (20th) that it has deleted 377,000 accounts in the second half of 2016 as part of its fight against content related to extremism and terrorism. The number is 60% higher than the profiles deleted in the first half of last year, according to its transparency report. In total, the social network […]
With news of another so-called Fappening (nude photos of celebrities distributed without permission) doing the rounds, it was inevitable that scammers would look to take advantage. We’ve already seen message board aficionados warn others of dodgy download links and random Zipfiles claiming to contain stolen nude photos and video clips, but today we’re going to look […]
The Turkish-Dutch political conflict has spewed into cyberspace during the past few days as Turkish hackers have defaced hundreds of websites and Twitter accounts with political messages and pictures of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The cyber-attacks come as communications between Turkish and Dutch authorities have ceased altogether, after the Netherlands first denied entry into […]
A flaw in Twitter allowed attackers to access locked accounts bypassing the locking mechanism implemented by the company. A flaw in the Twitter application allowed, until a few months ago, to access locked accounts bypassing the locking mechanism implemented by the IT giant. Twitter can lock user accounts every time it believes the users are […]
Twitter is now the target of a phishing attack that uses methods to trick brand managers and social influencers into fake account verification. Security firm Proofpoint discovered the phishing attack, which places ads on websites and lures brand managers to false verification pages. The ads come from an account that copies the official Twitter support […]
China has introduced their new 14-month marketing campaign to “smooth up” the internet service carriers and produce down gadgets like virtual personal networks (VPNs) which can be used to prevent their strict censorship. The ruling party oversees a large equipment designed to censor the net content that deemed politically touchy and blocking many Western websites […]
Tinfoleak is the best OSINT tool for Twitter, and is open-source. The latest updated version includes a lot of new and improved features. Search by coordinates. Geolocated users. Tagged users. User conversations. Identification in other social networks. More powerful and flexible search filter. More detailed information on existing features. And many more information to […]
Russia has for the first time invoked its ban on websites storing personal data outside the country. It’s picked a high-profile target, LinkedIn – and says even bigger companies could be next on the list. According to local media, a court has upheld a complaint by regulator Roskomnadzor, which says that LinkedIn has failed to […]