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CSRF Vulnerability in Instagram Allowed Hackers to Make Private Profiles Public

Feb

2014

Independent security researcher Christian Lopez Martin has identified a cross-site reference forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Instagram that could have been leveraged to gain access to users photos and information by making their private profiles public. The expert found that the service didnt use any mechanism to prevent CSRF attacks. This allowed him to create a […]

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Please send me your Facebook Anti-CSRF token!

Oct

2011

In the last few months we have seen a variety of spam campaigns propagating on social networking websites. Most of these attacks use some flavor of social engineering tactics. Every now and then, we see some innovative social engineering techniques used by attackers. Here is one such technique that tricks the victim into revealing their […]

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