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Instagram for Android Poses Account Hijacking Risk

29
Jul
2014

The Android version of Facebooks photo sharing app Instagram has been found to exchange information with the server in plain text, offering an attacker the possibility to hijack the account of a user.Security researcher Mazin Ahmed discovered the issue and disclosed it privately to Facebook. The company responded the same day, acknowledging the problem and […]

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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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