Hacker News
- This is how vulnerable your Facebook Page can really be http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2011/07/15/this-is-how-vulnerable-your-facebook-page-can-really-be 22 comments
- Security researcher penalised $3750 by Facebook for verifying vulnerability https://philippeharewood.com/bulletin-com-email-address-leak/ 3 comments
- Facebook Helped FBI Exploit Vulnerability in Linux for Child Predator Sting https://gizmodo.com/report-facebook-helped-the-fbi-exploit-vulnerability-i-1843988377 4 comments
- Facebook-ex-president-we-exploited-vulnerability-in-human-psychology/ https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/11/14/facebooks-ex-president-we-exploited-vulnerability-in-human-psychology/ 3 comments technology
- A vulnerability in Facebook exposed email and details of page administrator http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/69630/hacking/facebook-page-administrator.html 3 comments privacy
- Facebook XSS: An accepted vulnerability explained. http://gill.is/2012/04/11/new_website/ 3 comments netsec
- Facebook Attach EXE Vulnerability http://www.securitypentest.com/2011/10/facebook-attach-exe-vulnerability.html 46 comments netsec
- Facebook OAuth Vulnerability. $55,000 Bounty Awarded by Facebook https://www.amolbaikar.com/facebook-oauth-framework-vulnerability/ 6 comments netsec
- Facebook and Dropbox Apps for iOS Vulnerable to Credential Theft http://www.macrumors.com/2012/04/06/facebook-and-dropbox-apps-for-ios-vulnerable-to-credential-theft/#tmwz9ed8rg63c7cd.16 13 comments apple
- Facebook Vulnerability - Session sidejacking http://madhur.github.com/blog/2011/06/12/facebooksessionhijacking.html 7 comments netsec
- Sean Parker: Facebook was designed to exploit human "vulnerability" https://www.axios.com/sean-parker-facebook-exploits-a-vulnerability-in-humans-2507917325.html 3 comments politics
- Sean Parker: Facebook was designed to exploit human "vulnerability" https://www.axios.com/sean-parker-facebook-exploits-a-vulnerability-in-humans-2507917325.html 3113 comments technology
- Google and Facebook STILL vulnerable to BREACH and encryption oracles. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/04/spies_rejoice_gmail_facebook_messenger_breached_once_again/ 4 comments crypto
- SMS Vulnerability in Twitter, Facebook and Venmo http://titanous.com/posts/twitter-facebook-venmo-sms-spoofing 5 comments netsec
- CrossFit suspends all social media activity citing FaceBook overreach and data vulnerability https://www.crossfit.com/battles/crossfit-suspends-facebook-instagram 130 comments technology
- Leaked internal Facebook document details how it allows advertisers to target vulnerable depressed kids as young as 14 https://siliconangle.com/blog/2017/04/30/explosive-internal-facebook-document-allegedly-shows-targets-insecure-kids-advertising/ 22 comments technology
- Hacker stiffed of reward after reporting critical vulnerability to Facebook http://www.vyralize.com/3945/hacker-stiffed-of-reward-after-reporting-critical-vulnerability-to-facebook/ 3 comments technology
- Australian journalist arrested for technology conference report about vulnerabilities of Facebook's privacy controls http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2011/may/18/press-freedom-australia 7 comments netsec
- Facebook 'likes' may now make you vulnerable to spam http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/07/26/facebook-likes-may-now-make-you-vulnerable-to-spam/ 9 comments technology
- Memo suggests how Google and Facebook could be vulnerable to a political attack from the right https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/18/conservatives-plan-attacks-on-google-facebook-in-net-neutrality-fight.html 4 comments politics
- Leaked document reveals Facebook conducted research to target emotionally vulnerable and insecure youth http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/leaked-document-reveals-facebook-conducted-research-to-target-emotionally-vulnerable-and-insecure-youth/news-story/d256f850be6b1c8a21aec6e32dae16fd 2290 comments worldnews
- Widespread Vulnerable Ads Part Two: Flash Edition (Facebook’s LiveRail, Akamai, Adobe products affected) https://randywestergren.com/widespread-vulnerable-ads-part-two-flash-edition-facebooks-liverail-akamai-adobe-products-affected/ 3 comments netsec
- A lot of different Mac OS X apps vulnerable (Remote Code Execution) + Facebook bounty behind the scene https://vulnsec.com/2016/osx-apps-vulnerabilities/ 13 comments netsec
- UI Redesign made Facebook vulnerable - Again... | Nibble Security http://blog.nibblesec.org/2013/03/ui-redressing-against-facebook.html 2 comments netsec
- Ex-Facebook president Sean Parker: site made to exploit human 'vulnerability' https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/09/facebook-sean-parker-vulnerability-brain-psychology? 3 comments worldnews
- Facebook Hidden Friends Vulnerability (With “fb-hfc" released) http://blog.cyberint.com/2014/05/facebook-hidden-friends-vulnerability.html 5 comments netsec
- Facebook refuses to fix vulnerability that can make its servers DDoS other sites (x-post from /r/netsec) http://chr13.com/2014/04/20/using-facebook-notes-to-ddos-any-website/ 9 comments technology
- Gang of six men 'raped and sexually abused eight vulnerable girls as young as 12 after luring them over Facebook with drink and drugs', court hears https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10391021/Gang-six-men-raped-sexually-abused-eight-vulnerable-girls-young-12-court-hears.html 2 comments worldnews
- Study: White Supremacist Groups Are ‘Thriving’ On Facebook, Despite Extremist Ban — With many Americans vulnerable to fascist ideologies during the pandemic, the study warns, Facebook could be fertile ground for recruitment. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/facebook-white-supremacist-groups-tech-transparency-project_n_5ec82f17c5b6423c5ca9aa94 4 comments politics
- [Critical] If someone has sent you an MP4 file on WhatsApp, guard against downloading it as hackers may use a critical vulnerability in the Facebook-owned app to execute snooping attack on both Android and iOS devices. https://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/whatsapp-critical-security-vulnerability-specially-crafted-mp4-file-facebook-advisory-2134183 79 comments apple
- Edward Snowden says Facebook, Amazon and Google engage in 'abuse'. Speaking remotely at Web Summit, Snowden slams big tech companies, saying they make people vulnerable to surveillance. https://www.cnet.com/news/edward-snowden-says-facebook-amazon-and-google-engage-in-abuse/ 30 comments worldnews
- 20 year old Indian student, exposed a critical vulnerability which would allow a hacker to take control over any Facebook page in less than 10 seconds. Receives $16k from facebook. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/thiruvananthapuram/youth-rewarded-for-finding-chinks-in-facebook-armour/articleshow/54399711.cms?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=toi 6 comments technology
- The Problem Isn’t Just Facebook: It’s You Too. -- "By telling people they have no responsibility to understand how the Internet works, we make them more vulnerable not less." http://ak.vbroek.org/2014/08/18/the-problem-isnt-just-facebook-its-you-too/ 11 comments technology
- How Conspiracy Theories Emerge on Facebook - A new study shows how certain people, based the type of media they consume, make themselves vulnerable to conspiracy theories on social media http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/tech/big-data-shows-how-conspiracy-theories-emerge-on-facebook/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=pbsofficial&utm_campaign=nova_next 9 comments science
- With No Facebook Bounty Coming, Researcher Gets $12k Reward From Security Community -- "[Facebook] told him that the issue wasn’t a vulnerability. So Shreateh went a step further and demonstrated the technique by posting a message to the wall of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg" https://threatpost.com/with-no-facebook-bounty-coming-researcher-gets-12k-reward-from-security-community/102070 2 comments technology
- Computer expert hacks into Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook page to expose the site's vulnerability after his security warnings were dismissed (...they're taking it seriously now though) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2396628/security-expert-hacks-mark-zuckerbergs-facebook-page-expose-site-vulnerability-listen-warnings-glitch.html 14 comments worldnews
- Hacker posts Facebook bug report on Zuckerberg’s wall, says he was forced to do so after the social network’s security team failed to recognize that a critical vulnerability he found allows anyone to post on someone's wall. http://rt.com/news/facebook-post-exploit-hacker-zuckerberg-621/ 440 comments technology
- Apple computers were attacked by the same hackers who targeted Facebook. A small number of its machines were affected and there there was no evidence of data theft. Apple confirmed that a vulnerability in Oracle's Java programming language was used by the hackers. http://www.iaffiliatepartners.com/m/news/view/apple-attacked-by-same-hackers-who-targeted-facebook 9 comments worldnews
- Facebook Confirms Data Breach and Massive Vulnerability: A security enthusiast has exposed a major flaw in Facebook, one in which nearly every user's phone number can be used to view their personal information http://hothardware.com/News/Facebook-Confirms-Massive-Data-Breach-and-Vulnerability/Default.aspx 19 comments privacy
- Facebook Confirms Data Breach and Massive Vulnerability: A security enthusiast has exposed a major flaw in Facebook, one in which nearly every user's phone number can be used to view their personal information http://hothardware.com/news/facebook-confirms-massive-data-breach-and-vulnerability/default.aspx 153 comments technology