Social Network

Pierluigi Paganini July 24, 2015
LinkedIn and the story how crooks can use it for spear phishing

Kaspersky’s researchers warned LinkedIn about a security flaw that could put at risk their 360 million users and exposing them to spear phishing attacks. In November 2014, Kaspersky’s researchers warned LinkedIn about a security flaw that could put at risk their 360 million users. This was a big concern at the time because LinkedIn has […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 25, 2015
Facebook’s astonishing AI algorithm in Facial Recognition

Facebook developed an astonishing algorithm for facial recognition considered as the latest Artificial Intelligence step, it’s name is PIPER. Artificial Intelligence has been playing an important role to offer better and outstanding features in applications and a lot of computer giants and agencies have spent huge amount of money to acquire more and more. Facebook […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 18, 2015
Exclusive – Voidsec disclosed a number of flaws affecting Minds.com Platform

Security expert at Voidsec have analyzed the popular social networking minds.com disclosing a number of security vulnerabilities. Security expert at Voidsec, Paolo Stagno ( aka voidsec – [email protected] ) and Luca Poletti ( aka kalup – [email protected] ), have analyzed the popular social networking platform minds.com that is getting attention by media because it aims to give transparency and protection to user […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 28, 2015
Marauder’s Map allows Tracking Facebook Friends with a Chrome extension

Marauder’s Map is the name of a Chrome extension developed by Aran Khanna to simply track Facebook users using Facebook Messanger data. A student from Cambridge, Aran Khanna, has developed a Chrome extension that allows tracking Facebook friends on map. The developer named the extension Marauder’s Map as the magical Marauder’s Map from the Harry Potter books that reveals all of […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 27, 2015
Linux-based Moose worm turns routers into social network bots

Linux/Moose is a malware family that targets Linux-based consumer routers turning them into social network bots to use for illegal activities. ESET released a study about a new malware known as Moose worm that is compromising devices that have a weak or default credentials. The principal target of the Moose worm are the linux-based routers, […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 09, 2015
Facebook Friends Mapper – How to crawl Hidden Friends

Hackers have a new tool in their arsenal dubbed Facebook Friends Mapper that allows them to crawl Facebook Hidden Friends list just in a click. Facebook users can protect their privacy by setting the “privacy level” for every information related their profile or content they post online. Users can decide to completely set as private the information in […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 08, 2015
Beware Of Game of 72, it challenges teenagers to disappear for 72 hours

Police worldwide are warning of a social media game dubbed game of 72 that is challenging teenagers to disappear for three long days. Any abuse of technology against children and youngster can have devastating effects social media them, their lives and their harmony of their families. Social media are among the paradigms that can be transformed […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 13, 2015
A new Facebook Worm exploits multiple cloud services

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 cyber criminal are exploiting these platforms for illegal activities. Last disastrous news for the users of the popular social […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 12, 2015
Hacking Facebook by exploiting two reflected file download flaws

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 by an attacker respectively to upload an arbitrary file to the social network or to gain control […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 28, 2015
Twitter is tracking phone numbers to prevent trolls and abuses

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 of its platform. Costolo revealed to be embarrassed for the company’s […]