{"id":66146,"date":"2012-12-04T10:35:04","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T08:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=66146"},"modified":"2012-12-04T10:38:31","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T08:38:31","slug":"instagram-security-exploit-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/66146-instagram-security-exploit-identified.html","title":{"rendered":"Instagram security exploit identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A security exploit has been found in the photo-sharing app, Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>The loophole could allow hackers to breach and steal user account details from the Facebook-owned company.<\/p>\n<p>The exploit was revealed when it became evident that certain cookies were being sent in plain-text rather than through a secured channel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/article\/print\/9234236\/Instagram_vulnerability_on_iPhone_allows_for_account_takeover\" target=\"_blank\">Computerworld<\/a>\u00a0reported that, when the Instagram app is loaded, a plain-text cookie is sent to the servers. If a hacker intercepts that cookie \u2013 among other criteria \u2013 they can subsequently gain access to the account and lock out the legitimate user.<\/p>\n<p>The problem has only been seen on the iOS version, and its unclear if the Android version shares the same flaw.<\/p>\n<h5>Source:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/article\/print\/9234236\/Instagram_vulnerability_on_iPhone_allows_for_account_takeover\" target=\"_blank\">ComputerWorld <\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Facebook to share data with Instagram\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/65266-facebook-to-share-data-with-instagram.html\">Facebook to share data with Instagram<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Google buys Instagram rival Snapseed\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/60083-google-buys-instagram-rival-snapseed.html\">Google buys Instagram rival Snapseed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Instagram glasses show ambitious concept\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/53419-instagram-glasses-show-ambitious-concept.html\">Instagram glasses show ambitious concept<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hackable exploit has emerged on Instagram\u2019s iOS app<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340900,"featured_media":48372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[10424,17300,10934,7979],"class_list":["post-66146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-instagram","tag-instagram-hack","tag-photo-sharing","tag-quicknews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66156,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66146\/revisions\/66156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}