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Facebook Paid Out $50K for Vulnerabilities Allowing Access to Internal Systems

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Mar

2021

Cybersecurity engineer and bug bounty hunter Alaa Abdulridha revealed in December 2020 that he had earned $7,500 from Facebook for discovering a vulnerability in a service apparently used by the company’s legal department. The researcher said the security hole could have been exploited to reset the password of any account for a web application used […]

Category Threats & Malware Vulnerabilities Written by Feedproxy 0 Comments

Clubhouse under scrutiny for sending data to Chinese servers

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Feb

2021

The audio-chat app Clubhouse is the latest rage in the social media landscape. What makes it so popular and, now it’s part of the social media landscape, can we trust it? The Clubhouse app Clubhouse was launched about a year ago and was initially only used by Silicon Valley’s rich and famous. It is different […]

Category Mobile Privacy protection Written by Blog 0 Comments

Fake copyright violation notice aimed at stealing Facebook accounts

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Jan

2021

The latest phishing campaign aimed at stealing Facebook accounts is gathering momentum. Users are receiving mass e-mails threatening bans for copyright violation. The aim is to steal the users’ login credentials. We explain the anatomy of the new scheme and how not to swallow the bait. Who, me? The message says something like: “Your Facebook […]

Category Cyber-crime Mobile Phishing Privacy protection Written by Kaspersky 0 Comments

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