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Facebook Brings Bug Bounty to Developer Ecosystem

Facebook is expanding its bug bounty program to third-party apps and websites that might expose user tokens improperly.

Facebook, Bug Bounty

Cloudflare Makes InterPlanetary File System Globally Accessible

Cloudflare has released a gateway and browser extension to make the distributed IPFS network easily and securely accessible.

Encryption

No Sleep for Computers: Cold Boot Attacks are Back

F-Secure researchers found that modifying the hardware on modern computers make them susceptible to “cold boot” attacks where passwords and encryption keys can be harvested from memory. Hibernate or power off. Don't put the computer in sleep mode.

Hardware, Vulnerability

Senators Question Lack of MFA at State Department

Five lawmakers have asked the Secretary of State for answers about his agency's failure to implement MFA despite a federal requirement to do so.

2fa

BA Breach Another Step in Magecart Group’s Evolution

The attack group known as Magecart has been stealing payment information from sites for several years and is showing signs of maturation with the BA breach.

Data Breaches, Magecart