The Snappening — Snapchat Hacker Threatens to Leak thousands of Images

The waves of celebrities photos have not yet stopped completely, and a new privacy threat has emerged exposing tens of thousands of private photographs and videos of innocent users are circulating over the Internet. The personal image that are believed to be sent through Snapchat — the ephemeral...

Facebook Rolling Out Privacy Checkup for Users

Facebook has launched a new tool to help you better manage sharing your information and postings on the social network among your friends and the public at-large. The social networking giant on Thursday rolled out its "Privacy Checkup" tool that will help its more than 1.2 billion users to audit...

Facebook Enhances Privacy Settings with Anonymous Login

Anonymous is the new black for Facebook. The social network announced a number of changes to how users interact with third-party apps via Facebook logins, the most interesting being a service called Anonymous Login. Facebook chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg told developers at the company’s...

Facebook Introduces Anonymous Login to Limit Third-party App Permissions

We're comfortable in sharing information with our Facebook friends, but it is quite sneaky for Facebook users to offer their Identities and credentials when logging in to third-party apps, they don’t trust. To deal with this issue, the social network giant has plans to improve the way users login...

BlackBerry Releases Guidelines to Deter Privacy-Infringing Apps

Aiming to shore up user security BlackBerry this week released a new set of privacy guidelines it’s encouraging third-party app developers to follow to better protect their customers. The guidelines apply to customers’ personally identifiable information PII – the bits of information that apps...

Seven-Year Facebook Study Warns of 'Silent Listeners'

Facebook users are sharing less information publicly, yet continue to share countless bits of information with what one group of researchers has dubbed “silent listeners.” The researchers, from Carnegie Mellon University, recently wrapped up the world’s first multiyear, longitudinal privacy study...

Privacy of Millions of HTC devices at risk

More than 18 million smartphones and other mobile devices made by HTC are at risk vulnerable to many security and privacy issue. The Federal Trade Commission charged HTC with customizing the software on its Android- and Windows based phones in ways that let third-party applications install softwa...

Twitter Bug Allowed Apps to Access Direct Messages Without Permission

Social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook have become not just communication hubs, but also authentication mechanisms for third-party sites. Many sites and Web applications allow users to sign in with their Facebook or Twitter credentials rather than registering, which is a nice...

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...

9 Top Patch Management Practices for Businesses Security

9 Top Patch Management Practices for Businesses Security I've spent most of the past decade in information security, with a pretty big focus on incident response. It never ceases to amaze me how many security incidents pronounced hacks customers suffer as a result of unpatched systems. Patch...

Apple Crash Reports Help Hackers to create a jailbreak exploit

Apple Crash Reports Help Hackers to create a jailbreak exploit iPhone "jailbreaking" has been a hot topic since Apple released its smartphone more than two years ago. According to the Latest report posted by BBC that Thousands of iPhone owners have joined forces with a team of hackers to help the...

Facebook Launches Bug Bounty Program

Social networking giant Facebook has finally boarded the bug bounty bandwagon. The company announced late last week they’ll award $500 for each bug to those who share information about flaws that could compromise the site’s privacy. The news confirms rumors that began to bubble at a Hack in the B...

(TAD-2011-001) Vulnerability in HTC Peep: Twitter Credentials Disclosure

Vulnerability in HTC Peep: Twitter Credentials Disclosure http://blog.taddong.com/2011/02/vulnerability-in-htc-peep-twitter.html Title: Twitter credentials disclosure in HTC Peep mobile app default HTC Twitter client Vulnerability ID: TAD-2011-001 Credits: This vulnerability was discovered by...

GTVHacker dev team wins cash bounty for first Google TV hack !

The GTVHacker dev team has won a cash bounty for being the first to successfully root and enable third-party application support on a Google TV device before Google – Google will reportedly be bringing support for Android applications to the platform some time later this year. According to...

Facebook Vulnerable to Clickjacking Attacks

Facebook is susceptible to certain types of attacks that could allow someone to hijack an account while a user is interacting with another Web site, a security researcher warned on Monday. Reseacher Nitesh Dhanjani also said a design flaw in Facebook is granting third-party apps permission to...

The Tainting of Twitter

No one in the tech security world is surprised that criminal exploitation of Twitter has commenced in earnest, as I’ve written in this story on page 1B of Monday’s edition of USA TODAY. Coding and social engineering techniques that spammers and malware purveyors have been refining and perfecting ...