Stealth, persistence mechanism and ability to infect a wide swath of devices make malware dangerous and very different from the usual Mirai knockoffs, Avast says.

Facebook said today some 90 million of its users may get forcibly logged out of their accounts after the company fixed a rather glaring security vulnerability in its Web site that may have let attackers hijack user profiles. In short blog post published this afternoon, Facebook said hackers have been exploiting a vulnerability in Facebook’s […]

Hackers exploited a flaw in Facebook’s code impacting its “View As” feature.

By Waqas

Hackers exploited a vulnerability in the “View As” feature of Facebook. The social media giant Facebook has announced that it has suffered a massive cyber attack, resulting in  50 million users account impacted. In a statement, the vice president of product management at Facebook, Guy Rosen said that hackers exploited a vulnerability in Facebook’s ‘view as’ feature which […]

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Android, Debian and Ubuntu users are still at risk.

A vulnerability in Facebook's "View As" feature let attackers steal security tokens linked to 50 million accounts, the company confirms.

Bypass works on iOS 12 and Apple's latest iPhone XS model phones allowing an attacker to access contacts and photos.

By Waqas

It has been many days since a popular, semi-private BitTorrent tracker Demonoid has remained offline. The employees working for this website are also clueless about what’s happening and claim that the owner of Demonoid, Deimos, is also missing. None of them have had any contact with him for the past two months. Demonoid has been […]

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The cargo port is the latest US authority to be targeted by malicious hackers.

When it comes to protecting information, we can all do better. But encouraging a can-do attitude goes a long way toward discouraging users' risky behaviors.