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...

Facebook Partners with Data Brokers for Better Ads

In late February, Facebook forged a partnership with four of its most prolific data brokers in order to more accurately target users with relevant advertisements. Facebook announced on Feb. 27 that it would be expanding its custom audiences tool, an earlier initiative designed to target users wit...

Privacy Protests Cause Instagram to Rethink Changes

Instagram cofounder Kevin Systrom responded to a firestorm of protests from users of the photo-sharing social network’s proposed terms of service changes that could impact the privacy of its users. Systrom blamed confusing legal jargon for the misunderstanding and said Instagram would not be...

Instagram Privacy Changes Start Clock Ticking for Users Who Want to Opt-Out

Instagram users have some soul searching to do between now and Jan. 16 when new terms of service kick in that give the photo-sharing social network the right to sell personal photos without the user’s permission or compensating them. The most startling change reads: “To help us deliver interestin...

Google to Allow Users to Opt Out of WiFi Location Mapping System

Google, which has faced a pile of criticism over its privacy policies and practices, especially as they relate to wireless and mobile devices, says it is changing the way that it maps people’s wireless access points in its efforts to provide accurate location information. The company said it is n...

Unfixed XSS vulnerability at www.canoncamerashop.com

Security researcher SeeMe, has submitted on 02/11/2011 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting www.canoncamerashop.com, which at the time of submission ranked 0 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 13/12/2011. It is...

Google And Mozilla To Make "Do Not Track" Stages !

SAN FRANCISCO AFP - Mozilla and Google, on Monday took steps to give people privacy online, but most everyone said obstacles remain to create simple "Do not follow the software buttons for web browsing . Mozilla has proposed the addition of a signal of its popular Firefox browser that allows user...

Google Releases Permanent Opt-Out Extension For Chrome

Google has delivered a new tool that enables Chrome users to permanently opt out of ad-tracking cookies in the company’s browser. The new extension gives users the ability to make their choices about not being tracked by online advertisers permanent, at least in Google Chrome. The move by Google ...

Google Overhauls Privacy Policy

Google is planning to overhaul its main privacy policy in an effort to make the document more readable and usable for normal people. In addition, Google also is eliminating privacy policies for some of its individual products and services, which it deemed redundant. The shift by Google is a prett...

Timbuktu v3.0 and Public LDAP Server

Timbuktu v3.0 by Netopia, for those who don't know, is a remote control software package for Windows 9x, NT, and the Macintosh that gives you GUI console access. LDAP support was recently introduced to make it easier to find machines that have Timbuktu on them in your enterprise. This is good and...