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IBTimes | December 21, 2015

A security researcher who unearthed a major Instagram hole has got into trouble with Facebook that accused him of unethical behaviour. Wesley Wineberg, a well-known bug hunter, was checking the vulnerability of an exposed Amazon server when he found a hole that could allow hackers to run code remotely, and submitted a ticket to the bug bounty team, Engadget.com reported. After confirming the bug, he decided to dig a bit deeper, and then things took an ugly turn. He managed to crack some weak emp...

Infosecurity Magazine | December 06, 2015

The Let’s Encrypt initiative has announced that Facebook is its newest Gold sponsor—just as it comes out of public beta. Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated and open certificate authority developed by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). The public beta status means that invitations are no longer needed in order to get free certificates. Anyone who has gone through the trouble of setting up a secure website knows what a hassle getting and maintaining a certificate can be...

Infosecurity Magazine | December 02, 2015

With an ever-increasing number of cyberattacks, it’s imperative that organizations have a way to facilitate sharing of attack data in order to defend themselves better. To that end, RiskIQ has teamed up with Facebook to provide a visual interface on top of the social network’s ThreatExchange product. Members of the exchange will be able to send and receive data stored in ThreatExchange directly from the PassiveTotal platform. Facebook’s ThreatExchange is a rich repository of th...

None | January 06, 2016

Facebook has announced it will be monitoring for and notifying users if it spots signs of nation state-sponsored targeted attacks....