Pierluigi Paganini
April 23, 2016
Facebook announced that the number of its users accessing through the Tor network has passed 1 million. The number is calculated over a period of 30 days. Facebook has announced Friday that it has passed 1 million Tor users. As announced in a blog post, the number is calculated over a period of 30 days. “Over […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 22, 2016
Facebook hacked! The security expert Orange Tsai discovered the presence of a malicious webshell on one of the company servers. The security expert Orange Tsai from the DevCore firm has found a malicious web shell on Facebook Server. The researcher was analyzing the Facebook’s infrastructure when noticed a domain called files.fb.com. Intrigued, the expert has tried to access […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 19, 2016
The US intelligence is massively expanding in Social Media surveillance pushing new technologies, including artificial intelligence for data mining In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital firm, has been pursuing various new technologies, including artificial intelligence for data mining, computer algorithms that can detect insider threats and robots which are able to seize delicate objects. This is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 07, 2016
A security researcher has discovered a Facebook password reset vulnerability that allowed him to brute force into any FB account. The security researcher Anand Prakash has discovered a password reset vulnerability affecting Facebook. The critical vulnerability could be exploited by attackers to hack into any FB account launching a brute force attack. “This post is about a simple vulnerability […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 28, 2016
The experts at BleepingComputer reported a new strain of CTB-Locker for Websites, a new ransomware that mainly targets WordPress sites. Ransomware continues to threaten users worldwide, today we discussed German Hospitals paralyzed by the malware. TeslaCrypt, Cryptowall and Locky are the names of the most popular ransomware that already infected millions machines worldwide. The experts at BleepingComputer reported a new […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 01, 2016
A security researcher has discovered a serious XSS flaw that could have allowed attackers to take over users’ Facebook accounts. The security expert Jack Whitton reported a critical XSS vulnerability to Facebook that could be exploited by hackers to take over users’ Facebook accounts. The researchers reported the flaw to Facebook in July 2015, and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 22, 2016
Facebook users are receiving malicious email delivering malware masquerading as audio message, a similar campaign also targeted WhatsApp users. Social media and instant messaging application are a privileged vector for cyber threats, in many cases bad actors exploited them to spread malicious links and infect a large number of users. Now a new campaign is targeting […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 21, 2015
Step by step the HTML5 language is replacing the flawed Flash that hackers have exploited in an impressive number of cyber attacks in the wild. It may help the fact that Facebook is leaving Flash behind and it is adopting HTML5 (YouTube has done in the a recent past). “We recently switched to HTML5 from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 19, 2015
The researcher who hacked Instagram claims he was threatened by Facebook after he responsibly reported a series of security issues. Every platform is potentially hackable, even the armored Facebook and Instagram and the independent security researcher Wesley Weinberg has demonstrated it. Of course, if the hackers ethically report the flaw to the company usually nothing happen, but the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 16, 2015
Twitter has notified some of its users that they may have been targeted in an attack by state-sponsored hackers. Twitter is warning users of state-sponsored cyber attacks, a small number of users, including a few connected to security and privacy advocacy, have been notified that their accounts were targeted by nation-state hackers. The Twitter users received the notifications […]
