OkCupid: Users can easily be tricked into changing/disabling privacy and notification settings

The page at www.okcupid.com/settingsis not protected against Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF attacks. This means that an attacker can trick users into clicking a link, which will immediately change the settings of a user, without the user even being aware of the changes. The attack works like thi...

Facebook Fixes CSRF Vulnerability in Instagram

Until last week, some parts of the API that Instagram uses were vulnerable to a cross-site request forgery CSRF attack, something that could have put photos users thought were private, out in the open. It took almost six months but Facebook, the photo sharing application’s parent company, patched...

Security changes and features of Opera 18

News Security changes and features of Opera 18 Share December 4th, 2013 Opera 18 is now out on the stable channel, so we wanted to take a moment to go through some of the new features from a security perspective. Media Access One of the new features is media access. That is; camera and microphone...

Facebook Graph Search becomes more powerful than ever, Review your Privacy Settings again

Facebook Graph Search is more powerful than ever, has been updated to allow people to search in greater depth on Facebook. Facebook expanded its Graph Search to include posts and status updates, which means everything you’ve been posting is way easier to find than ever before. "Now you will be ab...

Facebook Friends Disclosure

Blog post link : http://techielogic.wordpress.com/2013/08/04/facebooks-friends-list-disclosure-vulnerability/ Affected application: facebook.com Impact: Access to friends list, by bypassing the privacy settings Author: Bhavesh Naik It was JULY 17, 2013 when I discovered this little loophole and I...

MGASA-2013-0217 Updated moodle package fixes multiple security vulnerabilities

Flash files distributed with the YUI library in Moodle before 2.4.5 may have allowed for cross-site scripting attacks MSA-13-0025. Privacy settings for the IMS-LTI External tool module in Moodle before 2.4.5 were not able to be changed so personal information was always transferred MSA-13-0026...

Oracle Linux 3 / 4 : pidgin (ELSA-2009-1218)

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2009:1218 : Updated pidgin packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Pidgin is an instant messaging program whic...

LinkedIn with Two-factor authentication and Cross Site Scripting Flaw

Two Factor Authentication is becoming a standard in the enterprise security space in an attempt to dually secure end users against malicious attacks. Following Dropbox, Google and virtually everyone else, LinkedIn added two-factor authentication to its login process today. LinkedIn will provide...

LinkedIn with Two-factor authentication and Cross Site Scripting Flaw

Two Factor Authentication is becoming a standard in the enterprise security space in an attempt to dually secure end users against malicious attacks. Following Dropbox, Google and virtually everyone else, LinkedIn added two-factor authentication to its login process today. LinkedIn will provide...

How To: Chrome Browser Privacy Settings

youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY9hbsfEbaw The Web browser is the primary portal through which the vast majority of connected users access and interact with the Internet. Each browser has its own security and privacy settings and those settings have an enormous impact on the nature of the...

Defence develop Software that can track people on Social media

A multinational security firm 'Raytheon' has secretly developed software called 'RIOT', capable of tracking people's movements and predicting future Behavior by mining data from social networking websites. The multi billion dollar company, didn't want its concept video revealed, but the Guardian...

Defence develop Software that can track people on Social media

A multinational security firm 'Raytheon' has secretly developed software called 'RIOT', capable of tracking people's movements and predicting future Behavior by mining data from social networking websites. The multi billion dollar company, didn't want its concept video revealed, but the Guardian...

California Attorney General Fighting for Mobile Privacy Rights

UPDATE – In an attempt to reign in the tendency of indifference toward consumer privacy among mobile application developers, California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today made public a list of guidelines regulating the ways in which mobile application developers and technology companies hand...

Facebook Privacy Flaw exposed two College Gay Students Accidentally

Facebook is continually changing its privacy settings, trying to give users more control over what they want to share and with whom. Two gay college students were outed on Facebook because of a privacy flaw in Facebook Groups. Users can be added to Facebook Groups by friends without the user's...

Your Friend can help Investigators to Access your Facebook Profile

If you're not already particularly picky about who you friend on Facebook, you might want to think about rejiggering those privacy settings. It's not the backdoor access that the FBI has been pushing for, but US District Judge William Pauley III has now ruled that it and other law enforcement...

Google Reportedly Near Settlement With FTC on Safari Tracking

The FTC is nearing completion of its investigation into allegations that Google used a special technique to circumvent the privacy settings on Safari to enable better tracking of users, even when tracking was disabled by the user. The decision may cost Google millions of dollars in fines, but it’...

CVE-2012-0585

The Private Browsing feature in Safari in Apple iOS before 5.1 allows remote attackers to bypass intended privacy settings and insert history entries via JavaScript code that calls the 1 pushState or 2 replaceState method...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Private Browsing feature in Safari in Apple iOS before 5.1 allows remote attackers to bypass intended privacy settings and insert history entries via JavaScript code that calls the 1 pushState or 2 replaceState method...

CVE-2012-0585

Apple Safari (iOS) before 5.1 is affected by CVE-2012-0585. The Private Browsing feature can be bypassed, enabling insertion of history entries via JavaScript pushState or replaceState, exposing privacy leakage as described in the vulnerability detail.

Microsoft Says Google Bypassing Users' IE Privacy Settings

The relations among Microsoft, Apple and Google, which are testy in the best of circumstances, are being pressured even more of late as the controversy surrounding Google’s actions with cookies and user tracking grows. In the latest installment, Microsoft has said that it has found that Google “i...