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Instagram Account Hijack Code Published

30

Jul

2014

A developer in London discovered that an Instagram account can be easily hijacked and released to the public a proof-of concept of the method, after Facebook denied him a bug bounty, saying that they were aware of the problem he described to them.Because of Instagram’s insecure communication, Stevie Graham was able to intercept traffic from […]

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This is Bolt, Instagram’s new messaging app

30

Jul

2014

Instagram has quietly unveiled its new one-tap messaging app, Bolt, for iOS and Android. Instagram still operates largely as an independent company within Facebook, were told, making its own decisions on most everything.

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Is Instagram doing enough to fix its account hijacking bug?

28

Jul

2014

If youre checking Instagram on public Wi-Fi, you may be exposing more than you realize. A security researcher named Mazin Ahmed has published a new report showing how easy it is to hijack an Instagram account, and taking the company to task for lax security. The technique relies on catching Instagram data in transit, either through […]

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