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Title: Using Instagram for iOS on public Wi-Fi poses risk of an account hijack, researcher says Post by: HCK on July 29, 2014, 09:00:15 pm Using Instagram for iOS on public Wi-Fi poses risk of an account hijack, researcher says
<article> <section class="page"> <p>A configuration problem in Facebook’s popular Instagram application for Apple devices could allow a hacker to hijack a person’s account if they’re both on the same public Wi-Fi network.</p><p>Stevie Graham, who describes himself as a “hacker at large” based in London, wrote (https://twitter.com/stevegraham/status/493465799542468608) on Twitter that Facebook won’t pay him a reward for reporting the flaw, which he said he found years ago.</p><p>Graham wrote he hopes to draw more attention to the issue by writing a tool that could quickly compromise many Instagram accounts. He cheekily calls the tool “Instasheep,” a play on Firesheep (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firesheep), a Firefox extension that can compromise online accounts in certain circumstances.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2459060/using-instagram-on-public-wifi-poses-risk-of-an-account-hijack-researcher-says.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Using Instagram for iOS on public Wi-Fi poses risk of an account hijack, researcher says (http://www.macworld.com/article/2459060/using-instagram-on-public-wifi-poses-risk-of-an-account-hijack-researcher-says.html#tk.rss_all) |