Facebook was launched by Mark Zukerberg, a sophomore at Harvard College in the 2003. Initially it was called Facemash. He managed to hack into several campus servers to download the first profile pictures. In January 2004, Zukerberg began writing code for a new website which he launched in February 2004. He named it The Facebook […]
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Social Media’s poster boy, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and Chief Executive of Facebook was at the receiving end of what was initially considered a prank, when his Facebook profile page was hacked by an IT security Researcher from Palestine, named Khalil Shreateh. Khalil on his part claims that he had tried to contact Facebook, and warn […]
A Facebook flaw that would have been a golden opportunity for cyberattackers who in the planning to abuse Facebook accounts for spam and identity theft, have been successfully fixed by a UK based researcher who also grabbed the bounty of $20,000 which was set as bounty for the potentially harmful Facebook flaws fixation project. The […]
Apple rolled out an update just two days ago and there is already another method to bypass the iPhone passcode lock. Youtube user videosdebarraquito posted a video described as “Sorry, iOS 6.1.3 has a new security flaw, but can be avoided easily. You should disable the “Voice Dial” option if you want to be safe.” […]
Did you know there was a recent bug that allowed users to bypass the iPhone unlock screen without knowing the code? Well, they quickly addressed this issue with the new update. I haven’t seen too many details around that explain specifically how users were able to gain access to iPhones without the passcode, but I’m […]
Considering that over a billion people use Facebook, 500 million Twitter and 400 million Google+, the consideration that our information may not be as secure as we hope is more prevalent than ever. To minimize the risk and to have a higher chance of protecting your information when using social media platforms, there are several […]
The Hacker group AntiSec claims to have 12 million iPhone and iPad UDIDs it obtained during an attack on an FBI agent’s compromised notebook, according to a report in The Next Web. It made 1 million of the stolen UDIDs publicly available in a file posted on Pastebin. The UDID is a unique 40-digit code […]