[securityaffairs] How to abuse Facebook feature to conduct powerful DDoS attack

A researcher discovered a flaw in the section “notes” of the social network Facebook that could be exploited by anyone to conduct a powerful DDoS attack.

[infosecurity-magazine] Facebook Builds its Own Threat Information Framework

Keeping ahead of web-based threats requires a mechanism to continually search for new types of attacks while understanding existing ones. However, data fragmentation and threat complexity plagues efforts to keep track of all the data related to malware, phishing and other risks – differences in how threats are discussed, categorized or even named vary from platform to platform and vendor to vendor. Facebook is taking steps to solve the issue for itself with the release of ThreatData.

[securityaffairs] Facebook ‘Naked Video’ scam hits 2 million users

Security Experts at Bitdefender discovered a clickjackingNaked Video scam that already infected more that 2 millions Facebook users.

[securityaffairs] Syrian Electronic Army hacks into Facebook’s domain

by paganinip on February 6th, 2014

The Syrian Electronic Army claimed Wednesday that it managed to hack into Facebook violating an administrator account of the Facebook’s Domain Registrar.