CVE-2026-3488 WP Statistics <= 14.16.4 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Sensitive Information Exposure and Privacy Audit Manipulation

The WP Statistics plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Missing Authorization in all versions up to, and including, 14.16.4. This is due to missing capability checks on multiple AJAX handlers including wpstatisticsgetfilters, wpstatisticsgetPrivacyStatus, wpstatisticsupdatePrivacyStatus, and...

FTC Finalizes Facebook Settlement over Privacy

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission today announced it had finalized its settlement with Facebook, which is now subject to biennial privacy audits for the next 20 years and requires its nearly 1 billion users opt in to any future privacy policy changes. The settlement announcement follows news that...

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...

Google to Revise Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, Users Can't Opt Out

Google announced Tuesday that it will revamp its privacy policy and terms of service, boiling more than 60 privacy policies down to one comprehensive document that will extend across most of their products. Under the new policy all information entered by users via Google will be indexed together...

Twenty Something Asks Facebook For His File And Gets It – All 1,200 Pages

Be careful of what you ask for. That’s a lesson that Max Schrems of Vienna, Austria, learned the hard way when he sent a formal request to Facebook citing European law and asking for a copy of every piece of personal information that the world’s largest social network had collected on him. After ...

Facebook Settles with FTC on Privacy Grounds

The Federal Trade Commission FTC proposed a settlement with social networking giant Facebook on Tuesday, requiring the site to take the privacy of its users more seriously and subject itself to privacy audits every two years for the next 20 years, according to an article in the New York Times. Th...