So Facebook disabled Flash for video finally, sadly it’s still there for games but a large use case for it just went out the window. And really, it’s not surprising after the recent mega patch in Adobe Flash that fixed 78 CVE classified vulnerabilities. There’s just no good reason for anyone to still be using […]
Facebook Launches ThreatExchange – Security Clearinghouse API
So Facebook has launched ThreatExchange, a social network for information security intelligence and cyberthreat sharing, how apt. They have signed up some fairly heavyweight partners from the get go with Bitly, Dropbox, Pinterest, Tumblr, Twitter and Yahoo! being involved initially. With those kind of names, it’s a sure bet more people will jump on the […]
Facebook Allows Tor Access To Site
Facebook started out blocking users of the Tor network in 2013, but have recently had a change of mind and now Facebook allows Tor access to the site even providing a special .onion address for users of the network to directly connect to Facebook infrastructure. It’s an interesting decision as many of the Facebook ‘security […]
Yes – We Now Have A Facebook Page – So Please Like It!
Yes finally, like 6 years later than everyone else we have a Facebook page – it has a huge 3 likes.. I’ll share the posts there (if you don’t use RSS any more since Google Reader closed down – it might be a decent way to keep up) plus some other funny/interesting stuff of relevance […]
UK Facebook Hacker Jailed For 8 Months
It’s a pretty harsh sentence if you ask me, especially since Facebook decided in July 2011 to start paying bug bounties. I have to say though, this guy must be a pretty talented hacker to break into the Facebook servers – they aren’t exactly low hanging fruit. I’d imagine they are some of the most […]