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Microsoft's Social network Yammer vulnerable to OAuth Bypass hack

Microsoft's Social network Yammer vulnerable to OAuth Bypass hack

Aug 04, 2013
Yammer , is the Enterprise Social Network service that was launched in 2008 and sold to Microsoft in 2012. Yammer is a secure, private social network for your company. Yammer is used for private communication within organizations or between organizational members and pre-designated groups, making it an example of enterprise social software. Ateeq Khan,  Pakistani researcher from The Vulnerability Laboratory Research  team has discovered multiple critical Vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Yammer Social Network. An  OAuth bypass session token web vulnerability is detected in the official Microsoft Yammer Social Network online-service application. OAuth is an emerging authorization standard that is being adopted by a growing number of sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Google, Yahoo!, Netflix, Flickr, and several other Resource Providers and social networking sites. According to the advisory , The vulnerability allows remote attackers...
Reporters legally threatened after revealing vulnerability that exposes sensitive data of 170,000 customers

Reporters legally threatened after revealing vulnerability that exposes sensitive data of 170,000 customers

May 22, 2013
For millions of low income families, the federal government's Lifeline program offers affordable phone service. But an online security lapse has exposed tens of thousands of them to an increased risk of identity theft, after their Social Security numbers, birth dates and other pieces of highly sensitive information were included in files posted publicly online. Reporters with Scripps were investigating Lifeline, a government benefit-program that provides low-income Americans with discounted phone service, when they came across the sensitive data. They discovered 170,000 Lifeline phone customer records online through a basic Google search that contained everything needed for identity theft. They asked for an interview with the COO of TerraCom and YourTel, which are the telcos who look after Lifeline,but they threatened reporters who found a security hole in their Lifeline phone system with charges under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Then, the blame-the...
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Crowdstrike Named A Leader In Endpoint Protection Platforms

Nov 22, 2024Endpoint Security / Threat Detection
CrowdStrike is named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Protection Platforms for the fifth consecutive time, positioned highest on Ability to Execute and furthest to the right on Completeness of Vision.
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