Vulnerabilities in Facebook Chat and Messenger exploitable with basic HTML knowledge
Check Point’s security research team has discovered vulnerabilities in Facebook’s standard online Chat function, and its separately downloaded Messenger app. The …
Facebook CTF platform is now open source
Capture the Flag competitions are a good – not to mention legal – way for hackers to build and hone their skills. But, quality CTF environments are difficult and …
Facebook made to serve phishing forms to users
Netcraft researchers have recently spotted an extremely convincing Facebook phishing attack. The fraudsters made it look like the fake “Facebook Page Verification” …
Facebook vulnerability allowed access to personal and payment information
Bitdefender has discovered a significant vulnerability within Facebook which allowed access to any user account through simple social login manipulation. The attacker was able …
Facebook testing new features to prevent user harassment
Facebook is testing three new features that should help prevent or at least minimize harassment of users on its platform. The first will alert users if someone tries to …
Beware of Facebook “Security System Page” scams
Facebook users have lately become targets of phishers who are not satisfied with stealing the users’ login information, but they want their security questions and …
Fake Facebook emails deliver malware masquerading as audio message
A new spam campaign is targeting Facebook users. It uses the same approach as the recent one aimed at WhatsApp users, and Comodo researchers believe that the authors of both …
Facebook drops Flash, adding one more reason for users to stop using it altogether
Facebook recently announced it stopped using Adobe Flash for web videos that appear on its News Feed, Pages and the embedded Facebook video player, instead deploying a video …
Facebook starts warning users of state-sponsored attacks against their accounts
Facebook will begin alerting its users when their account is being targeted or compromised by an attacker suspected of working on behalf of a nation-state.“While we have …
Facebook tries to help advertisers and users with new ad control options
The ads you see on Facebook are set to become even more targeted, as the social network’s interest-based advertising, which they have been rolling out for the past year, …
Researchers get $100k for detecting emerging class of C++ bugs
Facebook has awarded $100,000 to a team of researchers from Georgia Tech for their discovery of a new method for identifying “bad-casting” vulnerabilities that …
Free tools for detecting Hacking Team malware in your systems
“Worried that you might have been targeted with Hacking Team spyware, but don’t know how to find out for sure? IT security firm Rook Security has released Milano, …
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