Enhance cybersecurity awareness and survivability for DoD, industry partners, and academia in the face of the ever-increasing threat of cyber attacks. Cybersecurity (CS) includes managing risks related to the use, processing, storage, and transmission of information and the systems and processes used for those purposes, including analog and physical form. CS includes information availability, identification and authentication, confidentiality, integrity, and non-repudiation as well as the economic considerations with respect to selection of CS techniques, CS processes, and industry trends.
Instagram Data Leak
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Instagram had a data breach which allowed hackers fairly easy access to instagram users’ full names, phone numbers and other private information on users. The white-hat hacker who used a brute force login attack to feed phone numbers into the login form. Instagram also flags valid accounts based on phone numbers and does not limit the amount of login attempts. When a valid phone number is entered into the login screen, the user’s full name would be displayed, thus giving the hacker access to the name and phone number of the user.
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There was an Instagram Data leak, and it exposed hidden contact information that included the users real names and their phone numbers. It was discovred that the hack was a white-hat hacker. The hacker did not need to use advanced techincal skills to achieve this. There was also not evidence that payment information was not exposed. This also happened a year ago by a group of Russian hackers. They changed profile info and also contacted Instagram user by their email. Instagram are taking many protection strageties to make sure this wouldn’t happen again.
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