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Facebook, Twitter Take Down More State-Linked Accounts

Issued by: Security Week

Facebook removed over 800 accounts, pages and groups from the social media platform for engaging in what the company calls coordinated inauthentic behavior. Other accounts were taken down for brigading and mass reporting. The largest number of removed Facebook accounts, pages, and groups (548 in total, alongside 86 Instagram accounts) were associated with a network…

Vulnerabilities

Facebook Introduces New Tool for Finding SSRF Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Week

According to the definition provided by OWASP, a SSRF attack enables an attacker to abuse a server’s functionality to read or update internal resources. “The attacker can supply or modify a URL which the code running on the server will read or submit data to, and by carefully selecting the URLs, the attacker may be…