If you have Wi-Fi turned on, the previous whereabouts of your computer or mobile device may be visible on the web for anyone to see.
Google publishes the estimated location of millions of iPhones, laptops and other devices with Wi-Fi connections, a practice that represents the latest twist in a series of revelations this year about wireless devices and privacy, ZDNet Australia's sister site CNET has learned.
The ultra-busy LulzSec hacking group claims it now has the personal data of over 200,000 users of the game Brink. "Bethesda, we broke into your site over two months ago. We've had all of your Brink users for weeks," the group wrote on Twitter. "Please fix your junk, thanks!"
The big news may be that over 200,000 people played Brink.
Any third-party Twitter app developer can currently ask you to authorize software using OAuth under the pretense that they will not be able to access any of your private – both sent and received – messages, while in fact they easily can. TechCrunch was contacted by developer Simon Colijn, who hopes to make as many people aware of this privacy issue – or disaster, if you will – as possible.
At some point in your life you've probably been asked to take out a #2 pencil and fill in a series of numbered ovals. This method for gathering standardized data is widely used in elections, tests, and surveys, and it's generally considered to be anonymous: if you don't put your name at the top, you don't expect your answers can be traced back to you.
Codemasters, the UK-based video game development company, has fallen foul of hackers, who have broken into their network and stolen customer information.
In an email sent to customers, Codemasters explained that the intrusion was detected on Friday June 3rd, and users are urged to change their online passwords and keep an eye open for scams which might exploit the stolen information.
A 20-year-old computer technician working as a Mac repairman was arrested by police in southern California on Wednesday for allegedly installing spyware on laptops that he fixed, thereby enabling him to gain control of the computer’s webcam and remotely take photos of women in various states of undress.
You know those really unflattering photos on Facebook that you untagged at lightning speed? Now might be a good time to delete them...or at least check up on one new privacy setting. Yesterday, security firm Sophos issued a warning saying that Facebook rolled out a feature that recognizes your face in photos, prompting your friends to tag you.
Late last year, Facebook started rolling a facial recognition feature across the US. Now, the company has pushed the “Suggest photos of me to friends” feature to countries outside of the US, but has switched it on by default without telling its users first.
Sometimes there is a strange convergence of elements in the daily news cycle that defies reason and challenges the depth of one's own imagination - this is one of them.
Pssst. Dude, wanna score? What do you want? Acid, weed, X, 'Ludes? No problem ... you can now buy your favorite illegal substances online with (in theory) completely anonymity. Moreover, you won't be buying the "bad" stuff because you can see the seller's reputation as rated by his or hers previous clients!
