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...

Censorship & Global Concerns [THN] - eZine Issue 009

Document Title: =============== Censorship & Global Concerns THN - eZine Issue 009 References: =========== Mirror: https://www.vulnerability-lab.com/resources/documents/468.pdf Article: https://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=468 Release Date: ============= 2012-03-06 Vulnerability...

Censorship & Global Concerns [THN] - eZine Issue 009

Document Title: =============== Censorship & Global Concerns THN - eZine Issue 009 References: =========== Mirror: http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/resources/documents/468.pdf Article: http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=468 Release Date: ============= 2012-03-06 Vulnerability...

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reveals that the guys with the white hats face an uphill climb if they want to take down cyber criminal kingpins, with outdated laws and processes on the one hand, and an increasingly skeptical and...

stoneware webnetwork6 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Stoneware WebNetwork6 Vulnerability Assessment CVE-2012-0285 – XSS CVE-2012-0286 - CSRF Conducted by: Leland Public Schools Stoneware Customer Jacob Holcomb Network Engineer for LPS Conducted for: Leland Public Schools Purchaser of WebNetwork product. Test was to assure cloud security Stoneware...

stoneware webnetwork6 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

stoneware webnetwork6 - Multiple Vulnerabilities Stoneware WebNetwork6 Vulnerability Assessment CVE-2012-0285 – XSS CVE-2012-0286 - CSRF Conducted by: Leland Public Schools Stoneware Customer Jacob Holcomb Network Engineer for LPS Conducted for: Leland Public Schools Purchaser of WebNetwork...

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...

Mozilla Fixes Firefox 9 Crash Issue With Update

Mozilla followed up its Firefox 9 release earlier this week with an update aimed at swatting a bug causing browsers to crash. The fix was issued Wednesday with Firefox 9.0.1, and addresses the issue for users across Mac, Windows and Linux, though Mac users were reportedly affected the most. The...

FTC Criticizes ICANN Plan to Expand Domain Names

The Federal Trade Commission FTC is taking aim at a plan by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ICANN to increase the number of domains on the Web. On Dec. 16, the FTC sent a letter to ICANN claiming that expanding the number of generic top-level domains gTLDs would open users...

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”...

Hackers Install Siri on iPhone 4

Over the weekend, a pair of hackers successfully installed Apple’s previously iPhone 4S-exclusive voice assistant service, Siri, onto an iPhone 4 and fourth-generation iPod Touch. The hack works on jailbroken iOS devices. Steve Troughton-Smith and Grant Paul announced the hack via Twitter late...

Researchers To Demonstrate Tor Network Hijack Method

Researchers at the Hackers To Hackers Conference in Brazil will detail a method of hijacking the TOR anonymity network, potentially putting its users at risk, while The Tor Project accuses one of the researchers of irresponsible disclosure. The presentation combines work done by Eric Filiol of th...

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...

Social Media Use Tied to Increase in Malware Infections

With the use of social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and Google+ becoming more and more prevalent in the enterprise, companies are having to come to grips with additional security concerns that they bring with them. But, according to the results of a new survey of IT and security...

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...