Consumer Reports: 13 Million Facebook Users Ignore Privacy Settings

A Consumer Reports investigation indicates 13 million U.S. Facebook users are oversharing — and likely don’t know it. That figure represents 8 percent of Facebook’s 150 million U.S. users, but it is part of an upward trend in users failing to protect themselves while on the social network — putti...

Google's rogue engineer want to Stumble WI-FI Networks on Globe ?

Google's rogue engineer want to Stumble WI-FI Networks on Globe ? European privacy regulators said Wednesday that they were considering reopening their inquiries into Google's collection of personal e-mails and Web searches for its Street View service. Google's public version of events of how it...

Critics Continue Pushing for Bigger Probe into Google Street View Practices

Privacy advocates continue urging for a wider federal investigation into Google Street View practices following Google’s $25,000 fine for stonewalling federal officials during an earlier probe of Wi-Fi snooping allegations. The Federal Communications Commission late last week gave the Internet...

Symantec Experiment: Half Of Those Who Find Smartphones Don't Return Them

Good Samaritans are few and far between when it comes to lost cell phones, according to the conclusions of a social experiment conducted by security firm Symantec. Smart phones are unlikely to be returned by those who find them, but very likely to be perused for sensitive data including photos,...

EU Gets Tough: Gives Google Two Weeks To Explain Data Practices

A French data privacy watchdog is raising alarms about Google’s data collection practices and has given the Internet search giant a little over two weeks to explain the way it handles the information of its users. The Commission Nationale de l’Informatique CNIL sent a letter .PDF late last week t...

AdiOS Finds iOS Apps Capable of Dumping Users' Contacts

It’s gotten to the point now where it’s almost easier to talk about the mobile apps and services that don’t ship your personal data off to some remote server for purposes unknown rather than discussing the ones that do. The latest discussion of privacy invading apps flowed from the discovery that...

Online Dating Sites Getting Around With Customers Data

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the privacy watchdogs over at the Electronic Frontier Foundation have put together a guide for those tempted to dance the algorithm electric. Their findings: online dating services may be getting around with your personal data. Leading online dating sites hold on...

400000 Israeli Credit Cards & Information Leaked by Saudi Arabia Hackers

400000 Israeli Credit Cards & Information Leaked by Saudi Arabia Hackers Hacker named "0xOmar" from group-xp, largest Wahhabi hacker group of Saudi Arabia claim to Hack lot of Israeli servers, lot of information about Israeli people including their name, address, city, zipcode, Social Security...

Protecting Your BlackBerry Smartphone with Security Wipe

Protecting Your BlackBerry Smartphone with Security Wipe The BlackBerry device is a wonderful thing. We load our BlackBerries with various softwares and applications to increase our productivity and customize them with interesting themes and ringtones. We watch movies and play games and track day...

UCLA psychology department database hacked by Inj3ctor

UCLA psychology department database hacked by Inj3ctor Inj3ctor team of Hackers take responsibility for the release of information from the psychology department's database which included the names, home addresses and dates of birth of 26 applicants to the university. The attacker also published...

Valve подтвердила взлом Steam

Компания Valve разослала пользователям своего сервиса Steam письмо, в котором говорится, что причиной недавнего отключения форумов стала хакерская атака. Ранее представители Valve не комментировали эту информацию. Как сообщается в письме, хакеры взломали не только форум сервиса, но также смогли...

Occupy Wall Street : Anonymous Hackers Publish Law Enforcement Data

Occupy Wall Street : Anonymous Hackers Publish Law Enforcement Data Anonymous, the Internet "hactivist" group, today, apparently in support of the Occupy Wall Street protest movement, hacked into several different police databases and leaked sensitive personal data, among them passwords, names,...

Hackers leak Citigroup CEO's personal data after Occupy Wall Street arrests

Hackers leak Citigroup CEO's personal data after Occupy Wall Street arrests The mobile phone number and home address of Vikram Pandit, the chief executive of Citigroup, have been placed on the web by hacking group CabinCr3w in retaliation for the cuffing of protesters at an Occupy Wall Street dem...

Hackers leak Citigroup CEO's personal data after Occupy Wall Street arrests

Hackers leak Citigroup CEO 's personal data after Occupy Wall Street arrests The mobile phone number and home address of Vikram Pandit, the chief executive of Citigroup, have been placed on the web by hacking group CabinCr3w in retaliation for the cuffing of protesters at an Occupy Wall Street...

'Good to Know' campaign : Google Collaborates with Citizens Advice Bureau for Online Safety

'Good to Know' campaign : Google Collaborates with Citizens Advice Bureau for Online Safety Google's first ever advertising campaign for online safety launches today, in association with the Citizens Advice Bureau. It covers topics such as choosing a password, scam emails and using two factor...

FTC Settles Charges With Android App Developer Over 'Unfair' Default Settings

In a landmark move, the Federal Trade Commission has settled charges it brought against the maker of a P2P file-sharing application that the commission alleged included unfair default settings that caused users to unknowingly share photos, videos and other personal data. The settlement with...

HTC Android Vulnerability - Exposes Phone numbers, Gps, SMS, Emails etc

HTC Android Vulnerability - Exposes Phone numbers, Gps, SMS, Emails etc If you are running a HTC Android smartphone with the latest updates applied, chances are your personal data is freely accessible to any app you have given network access to in the form of full Internet permissions.This...

HTC Android Vulnerability - Exposes Phone numbers, Gps, SMS, Emails etc

HTC Android Vulnerability - Exposes Phone numbers, Gps, SMS, Emails etc If you are running a HTC Android smartphone with the latest updates applied, chances are your personal data is freely accessible to any app you have given network access to in the form of full Internet permissions.This...

Я.Инцидент: Почему я читал ваши СМС?

События прошедшего лета, связанные с утечками конфиденциальных данных в поисковые системы, прямо или косвенно коснулись каждого, кто следит за новостями, любезно предоставляемыми СМИ. Под «системный нож» попали поисковые роботы и персональные данные гражданина РФ. Копнем немного глубже и выясним,...

Nude Scarlett Johansson Photos Believed Part of Larger Attacks on Hollywood Celebs

Nude photos of Hollywood film star Scarlett Johansson appeared online this week, adding yet another name to a growing list of Hollywood celebrities who have had sensitive data and photos stolen from personal computers, cell phones, e-mail and Twitter accounts in a wide ranging campaign of targete...