Facebook has patched two severe vulnerabilities which made it possible for a researcher to brute-force attack and compromise user accounts on Instagram. Belgian security researcher Arne Swinnen, in ...

Facebook paid researcher Arne Swinnen a $5,000 bounty for a pair of authentication vulnerabilities in Instagram that enabled brute-force attacks against usernames and passwords. Facebook on Thursday ...

When someone resets a password, a code is typically sent to an account holder's email, which is then input into a website (or app) for verification purposes. Moreover, protections should prevent that ...