Last year, we wrote about how Broadband could be banning porn in the near future, and last month the petrifying news emerged that watching porn on your phone could haveRead More →
Check Point disclosed details about a vulnerability found in Facebook Messenger, both in the online and mobile applications. Following Check Point’s responsible discloser, Facebook promptly fixed the vulnerability. What isRead More →
Can you capture the flag? Facebook’s Capture the Flag program can be used to teach basic security skills. Facebook wants to teach the next generation security skills and hopes theRead More →
Facebook vulnerability breaks down the convenience of social login authentication. Insufficient security validation allows attackers to impersonate Internet users and gain password-less access to any of their online accounts. SocialRead More →
The number of people accessing Facebook via the “dark web” now stands at 1 million per month, the tech giant announced today (April 22). Facebook has maintained an “Onion” siteRead More →
How I Hacked Facebook, and Found Someone’s Backdoor Script(English Version) Foreword As a pentester, I love server-side vulnerabilities more than client-side ones. Why? Because it’s way much cooler to takeRead More →
Many people come to Null Byte looking to hack Facebook without the requisite skills to do so. Facebook is far from unhackable, but to do so, you will need someRead More →
Rupture framework used to upgrade three-year-old BREACH framework and hack Facebook and Gmail 500 times faster. Security researchers have expanded and improved a three-year-old cyber-attack that could steal information from websitesRead More →
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. TheRead More →
Short Bytes: Brazilian police have arrested Diego Dzodan, Facebook’s Latin American regional vice-president, for failing to provide WhatsApp messages related to a case of drug-trafficking. In response, Facebook has said that WhatsAppRead More →
Spam posts on Facebook are nothing new. Since videos continue to be a staple form of entertainment—a whopping 8 billion views per day according to last year’s numbers—within the socialRead More →
Short Bytes: Your desire to master the art of Facebook hacking can harm you in a big way. Recently, a variant of Remtasu malware has been spotted in the wild thatRead More →
WhatsApp is working on making your chats more secure by introducing end-to-end encryption along with a much deeper Facebook integration. A developer by the name of Javier Santos shared aRead More →
Facebook patched the issue in about six hours. British security researcher Jack Whitton has identified a critical XSS (cross-site scripting) vulnerability on Facebook that could be leveraged via malicious PNG imagesRead More →
Two weeks ago, the Comodo Threat Research Lab discovered a malware campaign aimed at businesses and consumers using the WhatsApp mobile messaging service. That attack used official looking emails masqueradingRead More →
Short Bytes: If you are interested in increasing the security and privacy of your network traffic, here’s a great news for you. Facebook has just rolled out experimental TOR supportRead More →
Facebook’s plan to bring limited, free internet access to India has hit a hurdle: a regulator in the country wants it blocked. India’s telecom regulator has asked that the service beRead More →
Cybercriminals are using the friendly face of Facebook and Twitter to distribute banking trojans that are specifically targeting Brazilians. The attackers are targeting Brazilian Portuguese-speaking users and are using social engineeringtacticsRead More →
Yahoo has announced it will follow in the footsteps of Twitter and Facebook and begin warning users when it believes their accounts have been targeted by a state-sponsored actor. BobRead More →
Facebook doesn’t appreciate the effort, threatens to sue. Wesley Wineberg, an independent security researcher, participating in Facebook’s bug bounty program, managed to crack his way through Instagram defenses and almost getRead More →
