Application SecurityFacebookVulnerability What You Need to Know – Instagram Hacked Dec 20, 2015 by Amit Ashbel What was stolen? An independent security researcher was able to hack Instagram servers and gain access to basically all of Instagram’s secret material. Wesley Weinberg, was able to put his hands on everything from Instagram’s source code through credentials to email servers, SSL certificates and personal data of employees and users. As part of Read More › Application SecurityFacebookVulnerability
Data Security BreachDMVFacebookHackingHuaweiNSA If You Thought The DMV Couldn’t Get Worse… & The Top 5 Security Stories of the Week Mar 23, 2014 by Sarah Vonnegut From the latest credit card breach to Microsoft’s privacy ‘faux pas’, here are the week’s top security stories – take a few minutes and catch up before the madness begins again! Read More › Data Security BreachDMVFacebookHackingHuaweiNSA
BitcoinclickjackingData Security BreachFacebookHackingMalwareSally Beauty On Tracking the Creator of Bitcoin, a Breach at Sally Beauty and Facebook Clickjacking: Security News Update Mar 9, 2014 by Sarah Vonnegut It was a crazy week, with the secretive Bitcoin creator supposedly outed, details of 280,000+ payment cards tied to Sally Beauty purchases discovered for sale online and a new Facebook clickjacking campaign that preys on the curious, so let’s get down to it shall we? Here are your weeks biggest security stories: Read More › BitcoinclickjackingData Security BreachFacebookHackingMalwareSally Beauty
FacebookHackingSEASyriaTwitter Facebook Almost Hacked By The SEA: “Happy Birthday, Mark!” Feb 6, 2014 by Sarah Vonnegut The notorious hacker group Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) is stirring up trouble again, this time with Facebook. Overnight, the group claimed to pwn the Facebook.com domain, posting a screenshot of the WHOIS info on its Twitter. ‘Happy Birthday Mark,’ the tweet taunted, referring to Facebook’s recent 10th birthday. The registrant data indeed reflected that the Read More › FacebookHackingSEASyriaTwitter
BieberCyber SecurityDUIFacebookMalwareYouTube Justin Bieber Malware Spreading Across The Web Jan 29, 2014 by Sharon Solomon We all have different opinions on the Justin Bieber phenomenon, but there is no denying his star-power and influence over the younger generation. The Canadian star is constantly in the headlines for the wrong reasons, including a DUI arrest last week. Interestingly, this event has deeply affected information security worldwide. Read More › BieberCyber SecurityDUIFacebookMalwareYouTube
FacebookJackie RooneyMatthew CampbellMichael Hurley Facebook Sued For Alleged Privacy Theft Jan 10, 2014 by Sharon Solomon Facebook has apparently crossed the line again. Two users have sued the social media giant for allegedly eavesdropping on private chats for commercial purposes. The complaint was filed in a San Jose federal court. Facebook legal representatives have denied the charges and claimed that there is no truth to their allegations. Facebook has been accused of Read More › FacebookJackie RooneyMatthew CampbellMichael Hurley
FacebookHTML5Privacy Violation Facebook Can Track Every Letter You Type, Posted Or Not Dec 18, 2013 by Sharon Solomon The “blue and white” Facebook logo is arguably the most familiar graphic in today’s cyberspace. Almost one out of every nine people in the world has an active Facebook account. This social media giant definitely makes the world smaller place, but not without seriously compromising the user’s security and privacy. Read More › FacebookHTML5Privacy Violation
Application SecurityFacebookGoogleMalwareNSAVulnerabilityWorld of Warcraft Application Security News – December 9 – 15, 2013 Dec 15, 2013 by Sarah Vonnegut In this week’s AppSec digest, NSA agents spy on World of Warcraft Orcs, Facebook acts like a Nosy Nancy, Gmail auto-downloads all your advertise – I mean images, and CryptoLocker copycats emerge. Get informed about the latest news in security and start your week out fresh. Read More › Application SecurityFacebookGoogleMalwareNSAVulnerabilityWorld of Warcraft
BotnetCyber SecurityFacebookGoogleHackingLinkedinpassword securityTwitter Cache of 2 Million Account Details For Facebook, Google, Yahoo Users Discovered Dec 5, 2013 by Sarah Vonnegut Some two million accounts on several of the most widely visited social media networks, email providers and websites were just discovered on a server with a bogus IP in the Netherlands. Hackers stole login usernames and passwords for Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, Twitter and various other popular sites. Read More › BotnetCyber SecurityFacebookGoogleHackingLinkedinpassword securityTwitter
authenticationFacebookFTCHackingIsraelReuterssecurity verificationTwitter What’s HOT in Application Security Vol #24 Aug 14, 2012 by asaphs Facebook accused of falsely verifying developers apps security An investigation by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has disclosed that Facebook took no steps whatsoever to authenticate the security of Facebook apps who were awarded a Facebook verification badge. Read More › authenticationFacebookFTCHackingIsraelReuterssecurity verificationTwitter