Facebook To Use Your Web Browsing History for Targeted Ads, Here's How To Opt-Out Now

Surfing the Internet?? Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is watching your every move on Web, and this time even more closure. It’s not surprising that Facebook collects data of its 1.3 billion users, just like everyone else, which the company has said it only holds onto your data for security and...

Facebook Set to Let Users Edit Own Advertising Info

Facebook announced today it will soon be rolling out a new feature to give users more control when it comes to the types of advertisements they see on the site. If users are tired of getting barraged with ads for shoes, video games or discount plane tickets, they’ll not only be able to stop the...

Netflix Users Targeted by Microsoft Silverlight Exploits

Netflix, the world’s largest Internet Video Subscription service with more than 35.7 million customers in U.S alone, that runs on the Microsoft Silverlight platform, has now become a popular target for cybercriminals, as public awareness of Java and Flash flaws is increasing. Silverlight is a...

FTC Discusses Regulating User-Generated Health Information

The proliferation of wearable devices coupled with smartphone apps that monitor heart rates and other health metrics raises an important question: How exactly should the information generated by these devices be regulated? If there’s a fist fight in a bar can a person’s Fitbit accelerator be...

White House Calls for Transparency from Data Brokers

The White House redirected attention away from the data collection efforts of the intelligence community yesterday with the release of a report that urged data brokers to be more transparent about their own data harvesting. Companies such as Facebook, Google and others make a living collecting th...

Researchers: Accelerometers Perfect for Pervasive Tracking

Minute manufacturing imperfections in popular accelerometers cause that hardware to emit uniquely identifiable data that could give third parties the ability to single out specific mobile devices, regardless of any privacy protections deployed on them. In a paper published by the University of...

Google Admits that It Reads your Emails

Google has updated its privacy terms and conditions on Monday to offer more transparency regarding its email-scanning practices. One of the world’s biggest Web internet giant, Google, made it clear that the information its users submit and share with its systems is all analyzed. Last year, Google...

With a Warning FTC Approves WhatsApp, Facebook Union

Facebook’s acquisition of messaging application WhatsApp was approved by the Federal Trade Commission late last week, but not without a stern notice from the agency, which warned that it would be keeping a watchful eye on the two companies going forward. In a letter addressed to officials at...

Researchers explained How ANGRY BIRDS Sharing Your Personal Data

We are already aware about the fact that most probably every mobile app is collecting our data in one or the other form. Thanks to Edward Snowden, who provided the secret documents that revealed that the world's most popular Smartphone applications, including gaming apps such as Angry Birds, are...

Privacy Groups Seek to Halt Facebook Acquisition of WhatsApp

The appeal of WhatsApp, the cross-platform mobile messaging app recently acquired by Facebook for a stunning $19 billion price tag, was that it kept to its promise of not collecting user information that would be converted to ad revenue. The acquisition by Facebook, however, likely changes that...

CVE-2014-1885

The ForzeArmate application for Android, when Adobe PhoneGap 2.9.0 or earlier is used, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code, and consequently obtain write access to external-storage resources, by leveraging control over any Google syndication advertising domain...

Code injection

The ForzeArmate application for Android, when Adobe PhoneGap 2.9.0 or earlier is used, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code, and consequently obtain write access to external-storage resources, by leveraging control over any Google syndication advertising domain...

CVE-2014-1885

The ForzeArmate application for Android, when Adobe PhoneGap 2.9.0 or earlier is used, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code, and consequently obtain write access to external-storage resources, by leveraging control over any Google syndication advertising domain...

PT-2014-4342

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions ForzeArmate application for Android versions with Adobe PhoneGap 2.9.0 or earlier Description The issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code and obtain write access to external-storage resources by leveraging control ov...

DailyMotion Still Serving FakeAV Malware Scam

More than three weeks after notifying video-sharing site DailyMotion that it was compromised, security company Invincea reports the popular website is still infected. A spokesperson told Threatpost that Invincea’s original notification was not acknowledged and the company suspects this is a...

UAEPD Shopping Script SQL Injection

uaepd script – Multiple Sql Injection Vulnerabilty ==================================================================== .:. Author : AtT4CKxT3rR0r1ST .:. Contact : [email protected] , [email protected] .:. Home : http://www.iphobos.com/blog/ .:. Script : http://www.uaepd.net/ .:. Dork :...

Flashlight App Settles with FTC

The makers of a popular Android flashlight application have settled with the Federal Trade Commission over allegations that they covertly tracked the locations of the “Brightest Flashlight Free” users and sold that information to advertising firms. The FTC’s charges stem primarily from the fact...

Google Pays $17 Million to Settle Privacy Violations

Thirty-seven states are claiming a privacy victory against Google and will split a $17 million settlement from the search giant. Google, which generated $2.97 billion in online advertising revenue in the third quarter, was deliberately bypassing default privacy settings in Apple’s Safari browser ...

Marketing Firms Advertise Largely to Bots; Waste $9.5B

It may not come as a surprise that online advertising firms waste billions of dollars each year, but a new report claims that – even if you were to assume that the entire practice of targeting users with online ads is an effective and lucrative one – $9.5 billion this year will be wasted...

OpenX 2.8.10 Cross Site Scripting / SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

OpenX version 2.8.10 suffers from cross site scripting and remote SQL injection vulnerabilities. Exploit Title: OpenX 2.8.10 - Multiples Vulnerabilites Product: OpenX Vulnerable Versions: 2.8.10 and probably prior Tested Version: 2.8.10 Official site: http://www.openx.com Risk Level: High Exploit...