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Here’s how ‘Login through Facebook’ is a serious cyber security threat!

July 6, 2015 Author: Category: Greg's Blog

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans

Isn’t it scary to think that anyone can book rides using your Uber account and pay using your PayTM wallet? Well, it might be happening right here, right now as you read through this article. Mohit Bagga and Tajinder Pal Singh Chouhan of CodeBibber recently stumbled upon a security breach in Facebook login protocol that websites are using for authenticating the user, which can expose your data on multiple platforms. In simple words, whenever you choose the “Login through Facebook” option on any website or mobile app, you expose every other account where you logged in through Facebook. “We were hacking around the Facebook login that gives us the access token. We wondered if we could post other login requests to Zomato and Snapdeal as to see if they accept the token because it is a valid token for Facebook. We tried and were successfully logged in,” said Mohit Bagga, co-founder and CTO, CodeBibber. He added that they did several checks on various platforms before confirming this claim. “We have a toolbox that gives you total control over headers and parameters that you want to pass through the server and we use mitm-proxy (man in the middle proxy or a […]

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Evans went on to become a prominent figure in the cybersecurity industry. Drawing from his real-world experiences, he became a sought-after consultant, advising high-profile clients, including top athletes and entertainers, on protecting themselves from cyber blackmail and extortion.

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