Security News

BREACH Attacks Revived to Steal Private Messages from Gmail, Facebook (Threatpost)
2016-04-05 18:52

New life has been injected into the BREACH crypto attacks by researchers who have discovered how to bypass existing mitigations.

Facebook Fixes Instagram Vulnerability That Opened 1M Accounts to Compromise (Threatpost)
2016-03-28 18:58

Facebook was quick to fix an issue earlier this month that could’ve let an attacker break into four percent of all active, locked accounts.

Facebook testing new features to prevent user harassment (Help Net Security)
2016-03-25 14:30

Facebook is testing three new features that should help prevent or at least minimize harassment of users on its platform. The first will alert users if someone tries to impersonate them on the...

Facebook Password Reset Bug Gave Hackers Access To Any Account (Threatpost)
2016-03-08 17:02

Researcher earns $15,000 bounty from Facebook for discovering massive password security hole exposing 1.1 billion accounts to a possible account takeover.