uKnowKids Attacks Researcher Over Insecure Database

Child safety firm uKnowKids is blasting a security researcher who discovered the company exposed 1,700 identities of the children they were supposed to be protecting. On Monday, security researcher Chris Vickery alerted uKnowKids, a company that helps parents keep tabs on their kid’s online...

CVE-2015-5961

The COPPA error page in the Accounts setup dialog in Mozilla Firefox OS before 2.2 embeds content from an external web server URL into the System process, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by spoofing that server...

Design/Logic Flaw

The COPPA error page in the Accounts setup dialog in Mozilla Firefox OS before 2.2 embeds content from an external web server URL into the System process, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by spoofing that server...

CVE-2015-5961

CVE-2015-5961 affects Mozilla Firefox OS before 2.2. The COPPA error page in the Accounts setup dialog embeds content from an external web server into the System process, enabling a man-in-the-middle attacker to bypass intended access restrictions by spoofing that server. Impact is described as a...

CVE-2015-5961

The COPPA error page in the Accounts setup dialog in Mozilla Firefox OS before 2.2 embeds content from an external web server URL into the System process, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by spoofing that server...

COPPA error screen in FxAccounts signup allows loading arbitrary web content into B2G root process — Mozilla

Kartikaya Gupta of Mozilla reported an issue within the Firefox Accounts setup dialog that would embed content from a static external URI into the System process. An attacker in a position to control a vulnerable device's network connection could use this to inject arbitrary web content into the...

FTC Launches Investigations into Mobile Apps for Kids

The Federal Trade Commission on Monday said it’s launching “non-public investigations” to determine if mobile application providers are violating federal laws by collecting information on children without their parents’ permission. A report indicates almost 60 percent 235 of the children-centric...

RockYou Agrees to $250K FTC Fine Over Loss Of 32m Passwords

The Federal Trade Commission announced on Tuesday that it had reached a settlement with RockYou over violations of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act COPPA after the Web site allowed hackers to gain access to the personal information of its 32 million members. In a statement published o...

FTC Aims to Overhaul Children's Privacy Rights

In hopes of revamping a law that was implemented over a decade ago, the Federal Trade Commission began to seek public comment this week on proposed revisions of rules that govern the privacy rights of children online. In effect since 2000, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 COPP...