Tag: Instagram
Facebook Outage – Was it a BGP hijack?
Social media platforms are ingrained into the lives of billions of people across the globe and the unavailability of any one of them brings...
Wait! Read This Before You Post a Story on Instagram
Instagram is currently hands-down one of the most popular photo-sharing platforms in the world. With more than 1 billion users (1.16 billion as of...
New Chinese Malware “CopperStealer” Thieving Credentials Saved by Browsers
Cybersecurity researchers discovered a new malware making rounds online via fake software sites that targeted popular service providers like Facebook, Google, Instagram, Amazon, and...
Unprotected Server Exposes Scraped Data of 214 Mn Social Media Users
Socialarks, a Chinese social media management company, recently suffered a massive data breach that exposed over 400GB of users’ personally identifiable information (PII).
According to...
Microsoft Tops the Chart for Being Most Imitated Brand for Phishing...
Check Point Research, a global cybersecurity solutions provider, has published its Brand Phishing Report for Q3 2020. In its previous report for Q2 2020,...
Are You a Content Creator? Facebook’s New “Rights Manager” is for...
Facebook has just launched its “Rights Manager” tool to grant ownership control over to the user for images published on the Facebook and Instagram...
Data Scraped from Instagram, TikTok and YouTube Exposes 235 Mn Social...
Security researchers discovered a misconfigured database exposing over 235 million social media profiles online. According to the security researcher Bob Diachenko, who leads cybersecurity...
OurMine Group Hacks Facebook’s Official Twitter and Instagram Accounts
The social media accounts of social networking and technology giant Facebook were temporarily compromised by a hacking group named OurMine. The incident came to...
Previous Security Vulnerabilities Still Exist in New Android Applications
Security experts have observed that Android app makers have not patched the old security flaws, many of which even dates back to 2014. According to Check...
Indian Security Researcher exposes a flaw in Instagram, wins $10,000 bug...
Laxman Muthiyah, an Indian-based security researcher, recently discovered a bug in Instagram’s Account Recovery Process that could have allowed attackers to break into users’...
