Day: April 19, 2019

Hackers take control of top level domains to perform massive man in the middle attack

Posted on by Robin Edgar

The discovery of a new, sophisticated team of hackers spying on dozens of government targets is never good news. But one team of cyberspies has pulled off that scale of espionage with a rare and troubling trick, exploiting a weak link in the internet’s cybersecurity that experts have warned about for years: DNS hijacking, a Read more about Hackers take control of top level domains to perform massive man in the middle attack[…]

Facebook uploaded the contacts of 1.5m people without permission

Posted on by Robin Edgar

On Thursday, at just about the same time as the most highly anticipated government document of the decade was released in Washington D.C., Facebook updated a month-old blog post to note that actually a security incident impacted “millions” of Instagram users and not “tens of thousands” as they said at first. Last month, Facebook announced Read more about Facebook uploaded the contacts of 1.5m people without permission[…]

‘Millions’ of Instagram Passwords Were Exposed to Facebook Employees In Plaintext

Posted on by Robin Edgar

On Thursday, at just about the same time as the most highly anticipated government document of the decade was released in Washington D.C., Facebook updated a month-old blog post to note that actually a security incident impacted “millions” of Instagram users and not “tens of thousands” as they said at first. Last month, Facebook announced Read more about ‘Millions’ of Instagram Passwords Were Exposed to Facebook Employees In Plaintext[…]