Face.com Fixes Flaw to Prevent Facebook and Twitter Hijacks

A significant flaw in the Face.com mobile application KLIK has been fixed to prevent Facebook and Twitter users from having their accounts hijacked. KLIK is a camera app that uses face recognition to tag friends in Facebook photos in real time. It also apparently granted access to KLIK users’...

LinkedIn Investigating Password Leak That Could Affect 6.5 M

UPDATE Professional social networking site LinkedIn announced early Wednesday morning that it was looking into reports of stolen passwords, according to a post on their Twitter page. The tweet substantiates reports by several news outlets that a hacker was able to download the hashed passwords of...

Another Cybersecurity Bill Runs Into Trouble on Capitol Hill

A U.S. Senator’s bill to broaden cybersecurity intelligence gathering is in trouble after other legislators question whether proposed protections comes at the expense of citizens’ privacy. The bill introduced by Sen. Joe Lieberman I-CT to strengthen cybersecurity through better public-private...

Obama Administration Opposes CISPA As Congress Amends Proposed Law

The Obama Administration joined the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act CISPA debate yesterday when a senior State Department advisor told The Guardian that the White House opposed the controversial bill. CISPA emerged in the wake of the equally controversial Stop Online Piracy Act SOPA...

Homeland Security hacking into gaming consoles to obtain user data

Homeland Security hacking into gaming consoles to obtain user data The U.S. government has hired a California-based company to hack into video game consoles, such as Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, to watch criminals, especially child predators, and learn how to collect evidence against them. The U.S...

How The Free Market Fails Privacy-Conscious Consumers

Editor’s Note: This is the first of a two-part podcast with security researcher Chris Soghoian. It’s a truism that the pace of technological change outstrips society’s ability to grasp the impact of that change. For the most part, the consequences of this are benign and the remedies...

CIA Chief : We will Spy on You Through Your TV

CIA Chief : We will Spy on You Through Your TV According to the Central Intelligence Agency, the organization says spies won't have to plant bugs in homes, businesses or other places where they want to spy because of coming advances in computer and Internet technology. The CIA claims that when yo...

Apple Clamps Down, Begins to Reject Apps Looking for UDID Numbers

Facing mounting privacy concerns, Apple has begun to reject mobile applications that require access to an iOS device’s unique device identifier number UDID, according to a report from the Web site Techcrunch. The company announced last summer it would be phasing out UDID numbers with the launch o...

Applicants Coerced Into Surfing Facebook While Employers Watch

If you want to get that slick job you’ve been gunning for, you might have to suffer a bit of snooping. According to recent news reports, employers are increasingly asking applicants for jobs to submit their user credentials or asking to watch while applicants peruse their own social media account...

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...

Cyber Cops Wrestle With Legal Hurdles, Public Perception

CANCUN, MEXICO — A panel of top law enforcement officers in charge of cyber criminal investigations reveals that the guys with the white hats face an uphill climb if they want to take down cyber criminal kingpins, with outdated laws and processes on the one hand, and an increasingly skeptical and...

EFF Warns Users About Privacy Issues With New AIM Chat Client

Privacy experts at the EFF are warning users not to upgrade to the new version of the venerable AOL Instant Messenger chat client because of some serious privacy concerns with the application. The main concern is that the new version of AIM automatically logs all user conversations by default, bu...

House Committee OKs Bill To Allow Government, Private Sector To Share Cyber Threat Data

A cybersecurity bill approved by the House of Representatives’ Intelligence Committee on Thursday will allow the government and private companies to share information about electronic threats and attacks going forward. Introduced on Wednesday by Mike Rogers R-Mich., and C.A. “Dutch” Ruppersberger...

Researchers Identify Serious Capability Leaks in Many Android Phones

Many of the apps that come pre-installed on a variety of Android devices from manufacturers such as HTC, Samsung, Google and others have access to more services and capabilities on the devices than they should or that users are aware they have, according to new research. These “capability leaks”...

Adobe Flash bug allow spying Webcam hole

Adobe Flash bug allow spying Webcam hole The flaw was disclosed in 2008 and can be exploited to turn on people's webcams or microphones without their knowledge. Attack involved putting the Adobe Flash Settings Manager page into an iFrame and masking it with a game, so that when the user clicked o...

Adobe Flash bug allow spying Webcam hole

Adobe Flash bug allow spying Webcam hole The flaw was disclosed in 2008 and can be exploited to turn on people's webcams or microphones without their knowledge. Attack involved putting the Adobe Flash Settings Manager page into an iFrame and masking it with a game, so that when the user clicked o...

OnStar to Track Speed, Location of Cars, Even After Users Opt Out

Cars with OnStar’s built-in technology will begin having their where-abouts monitored in December, even if their owners opt-out of the service, according to a new privacy statement issued by the vehicle navigation and emergency notification service this week. The document, available here in .PDF...

View PDF Macro in Office Connector makes http fetch from Adobe from https session

The View PDF macro within the Office Connector plugin provides the following http URL even for https sessions when a user's browser fails the Flash installed test. http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/downloadbuttons/getflashplayer.gif It's bad form to mix http urls in with secured https sessions a...

The Hacker News Magazine September Issue - NO ONE IS SECURE

The Hacker News Magazine September Issue - NO ONE IS SECURE Well folks, after this issue and the obvious intensity of the insecurity of the net, I have a few thoughts on the unfettered access to knowledge. It is more than apparent we all live in a time where the extensive dissemination of opinion...

The Hacker News Magazine September Issue - NO ONE IS SECURE

The Hacker News Magazine September Issue - NO ONE IS SECURE Well folks, after this issue and the obvious intensity of the insecurity of the net, I have a few thoughts on the unfettered access to knowledge. It is more than apparent we all live in a time where the extensive dissemination of opinion...