Instagram Bug Put User Account Details, Phone …
Friday, 13 September 2019
The vulnerability, now patched, is the latest in a series of bad news for Facebook. A now-patched Instagram vulnerability could have exposed users’ account data and phone numbers to cyberattackers, parent company Facebook confirmed in a new report from Forbes. The bug was discovered by an Israeli hacker who goes by the handle @ZHacker13. It
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419M Facebook User Phone Numbers Publicly Exposed
Thursday, 05 September 2019
It’s still unclear who owned the server storing hundreds of millions of records online without a password. An unsecured server exposed 419 million phone numbers belonging to Facebook users, whose information was stored in several databases without password protection, TechCrunch reports. The records spanned Facebook account holders in countries including the US (133 million), UK
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Implementing Strong Authentication Does Not Guarantee An Excellent User Experience
Friday, 30 August 2019
Understanding User Expectations And Business Goals Guides Security Posture The traditional password is no longer sufficient enough to prevent hackers from getting into our accounts containing a multitude of information that can be crippling to any enterprise. A limited number of passwords implemented by the typical individual means that hackers can crack one password and
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End User Lockdown: Dark Reading Caption Contest Winners
Friday, 07 June 2019
Phishing, cybersecurity training, biometrics and casual Fridays. And the winners are … Dark Reading reader Nick Walker (aka ntwalk) earns the top honors and a $25 Amazon gift card for his password cracking play on words in the caption, penned below. When not penning cartoon captions, Nick, of Lowell, Arkansas, works as a security analyst at J.B. Hunt Transport
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Misconfigured Ladders Database Exposed 13M User Records
Friday, 03 May 2019
Enterprise VulnerabilitiesFrom DHS/US-CERT’s National Vulnerability Database CVE-2019-11683PUBLISHED: 2019-05-02
udp_gro_receive_segment in net/ipv4/udp_offload.c in the Linux kernel 5.x through 5.0.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (slab-out-of-bounds memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via UDP packets with a 0 payload, because of mishandling of padded packets, a… CVE-2019-3490PUBLISHED: 2019-05-02
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A Guide To Protecting The End User
Tuesday, 30 April 2019
A people-centric approach to managing cyber security vulnerability, attacks and privilege Download Your Copy We respect your privacy, by submitting this form you agree to having your details passed onto the sponsor who may promote similar products and services related to your area of interest. For further information on how we process and monitor your
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Facebook Employees for Years Could See Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text
Friday, 22 March 2019
2,000 Facebook engineers or developers reportedly made some nine million internal queries for data elements with plain text passwords. An internal Facebook investigation has found between 200 million and 600 million of its users may have had their account passwords stored in plain text for years, meaning they could have been searched and accessed by
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Secure the System, Help the User
Monday, 25 February 2019
The enterprise must do its part in deploying and maintaining secure systems so that end users stand a chance against attackers. Relying on end users for security is difficult, but securing enterprise systems doesn’t have to be. For a system to be valuable, it must be accessible and beneficial to end users. Organizations have improved
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Photo API Bug Exposed 6.8M User Photos
Friday, 28 December 2018
The flaw let developers access images that users may not have shared publicly, including those they started to upload but didn’t post. Facebook has apologized for a photo API bug that may have exposed photos belonging to 6.8 million users. This issue affects people who use Facebook login and gave third-party apps permission to access
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