Security Experts at Malwarebytes security firm spotted a new Facebook worm that spreads itself by leveraging multiple cloud services. Social media are a privileged attack vector, recent reports published by the principal security firms confirm that...
A security researcher has discovered two different reflected file download flaws in Facebook that could be exploited to hit its users. Security researcher David Sopas from WebSegura has discovered a couple of security flaw in Facebook that could be exploited...
Internet users that want to create a new account on Twitter through the Tor network must now provide a phone number to verify their identity. A few days ago, Twitter announced plans to begin tracking users via their mobile phone number, a measure that...
A recent report about the privacy policy of Facebook has shed light to potential problems and disagreements with legal concerns in the EU. There is a recent report from Belgium focusing on the revised terms of use that have to do with Facebook. Due to its enormous...
Twitter announced that it is starting to track phone numbers of users as a measure to prevent abuses like the creation of new bogus accounts. A few weeks ago, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo explained the difficulties the company is facing to prevent the abuse...
A young hacker disclosed the details of an attack that by exploiting a couple of flaws in Facebook allowed him to delete any comment on the social network. The 19-year-old hacker Joe Balhis has discovered the way to delete any comment on Facebook by leveraging...
The British Government has announced the creation of the 77th battalion, a cyber unit composed of soldiers familiar with social media. The documents leaked by Edward Snowden demonstrate that the NSA and its allies are now preparing for future dominance...
An Indian security expert Laxman Muthiyah exploited a vulnerability in Facebook Graph API mechanism to delete Facebook photo albums of every user. A critical flaw in the popular social network Facebook recently discovered could allow ill-intentioned...
Security researcher is investigating in a new strain of Facebook Trojan that in just two days has already infected 1110,000 Facebook users. Social networks represent a privileged attack vector for malware-based attacks, a recent investigation conducted...
The Reddit social news website issued its first transparency report shows it complied with only 32 user info requests in 2014. Reddit, the popular social news website has released its first Reddit transparency report that details data related the requests...