''Status jacking'' is the latest security issue to affect social networking sites, with hackers stealing log-in information to post fake and malicious messages on users' pages. Students aged between 18 and 25 are the most at risk because they are the most active on social networking sites and are the most likely to use shared computers.
While investigating a basic phishing attack, security researchers from GFI Sunbelt have discovered a public cache containing almost 3,000 stolen Facebook credentials.
Sunbelt researcher Christopher Boyd was looking into a rudimentary FarmVille phish, consisting of a blank a plain HTML with only a username/password form and the text "Log in to use your Facebook account with FarmVille."
In an era where online privacy seems like an oxymoron, is it so bad to have your browsing history publicly available? Or to pay less than $20 to have these details removed from the Internet?
In this digital age as everyone is being tracked by websites, cell phones and loyalty programs, privacy seems to be a hard commodity to hold onto. Privacy expert Frank M. Ahearn is the “Dear Abby” of disappearing; he can help you regain your privacy by teaching you to poof and fall off the grid.
Thanks to the explosion of social networking and all those nifty Web apps people use to bank and shop online, the bad guys now have an endless supply of attack vectors to steal personal data. In fact, some security industry experts have declared privacy dead.
Whatever the case may be, companies are increasingly under the regulatory gun to keep customer, employee and supplier data safe from prying eyes. At the CSO Security Standard Tuesday, attendees got a taste of what General Electric is doing to meet the challenge.
A heavily hyped software tool created to help Iranian citizens evade government surveillance online was abruptly pulled from the web following findings it was riddled with vulnerabilities that could expose users' identities.
Members of the Censorship Research Center said they were withdrawing the Haystack tool and asked that all remaining copies be destroyed. The move came after hacker Jacob Appelbaum called Haystack “the worst piece of software I have ever had the displeasure of ripping apart” and warned it could jeopardize the lives of Iranians who used it.
More than 7,000 students attending City College of New York this week are beginning to receive notices from school officials that their names, social security numbers and other personal information were exposed after a school laptop was stolen last month.
According to a post on the Educational Security Incidents (ESI) blog, the laptop was stolen a couple weeks ago. It was password-protected, but not encrypted and, thus far, CCNY officials have found no evidence suggesting that student data has been used for identity theft or other illegal endeavors.
We entrust Google with our most private communications because we assume the company takes every precaution to safeguard our data. It doesn't. A Google engineer spied on four underage teens for months before the company was notified of the abuses.
Nashua police are crediting an alert off-duty police officer who heard fireworks with cracking a burglary ring that targeted homes known to be empty because of Facebook postings.
Police said they recovered between $100,000 and $200,000 worth of stolen property as a result of the investigation. Police said there were 50 home burglaries in the city in August. Investigators said the suspects used social networking sites such as Facebook to identify victims who posted online that they would not be home at a certain time.
The moment is special: Your kid just learned how to ride a bike without training wheels. So you fire up your iPhone's camera, snap a photograph, upload the image to TwitPic, and share the evidence of your child's triumph via Twitter.
