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Adobe has released Flash Player 10.3 for the Windows, Linux;, Mac OS X and Android platforms. This latest update offers better security and user privacy protection, makes it easier for end users to manage their Flash Player settings and provides new desktop video and audio capabilities for enterpris...
You've gotta love social networking. It lets us make zillions of "friends" all over the world, it's making corporations scramble to meet customer requirements, and it's made Mark Zuckerberg and a few other people very, very rich. Unfortunately, cybercriminals are among those other people enriched by...
Facebook has introduced a number of security improvements aimed at better safeguarding users' privacy. These enhancements came a day after Sophos published an open letter asking the site to tighten up its security. By all accounts, Sophos was not impressed. Not that Facebook hastily revamped its co...
A federal grand jury has subpoenaed Pandora to produce documents in what could be an industry-wide investigation of smartphone apps. In an SEC filing, Pandora said the subpoena was served early 2011, and it was told it wasn't a specific target of the probe. However, it believes similar subpoenas hav...
Your cellphone, your digital camera and your color laser printer may be betraying your privacy without your knowing it, Eva Galperin, an activist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told a sparse audience at the Web 2.0 Expo Thursday. The EFF classifies software or devices that act behind the u...
As a concept, the notion of online privacy seems to rank right up there with the Tooth Fairy. Facebook has declared that all posts by members on their walls are public property; Google keeps getting into trouble with various governments over the data its Street View cars collect; and you can forget ...
Teamwork is important. We all know this to be the case whenever we do anything in a group involving other people. But arbitrary -- even directionless -- teamwork doesn't make success by itself, no matter what the motivational poster might tell you. There are different kinds of teamwork. Consider, ...
Anonymous, an amorphous group of cyberactivists, has set its sights on HBGary Federal, a company claiming to provide security expertise to the United States' federal government. The group took down HBGary Federal's websites and posted a message denouncing the company online. Anonymous' attack follow...
"Dear UK government," the ominous letter begins. "It has come to our attention that you deemed it necessary to arrest five of our fellow anons for their participation in the DDoS attacks against PayPal, Mastercard, and others, that have been carried out in our name in retaliation for those organiza...
Developers of the major browsers -- Microsoft, Google and the Mozilla Foundation -- plan to implement so-called do-not-track features into their browsers so consumers can indicate when they don't want their movements online to be observed and recorded by site hosts, which generally use the informat...
Facebook announced new measures Wednesday aimed at improving users' security when visiting the site. The news came with an intriguing twist: Mere hours prior to the announcement, it was revealed that the Facebook fan page of the company's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, was compromised by a hacker. While some...
Facebook has temporarily shelved plans to share members' home addresses and mobile numbers with app developers, following a strong backlash over privacy and safety concerns. The social networking giant had announced late last Friday that it would make this information accessible to developers throug...
Facebook dropped a privacy bombshell on an unsuspecting user base before the start of the holiday weekend: Going forward, it will make a user's address and mobile phone number accessible as part of the User Graph object. That means that users' addresses and mobile numbers are now available to third ...
In the wake of Cablegate, the massive release of sensitive documents released online by WikiLeaks and the subsequent DDoS attacks by pro- and anti-WikiLeaks factions on each others' websites, a fact long-known to only a few cognoscenti became public -- free speech online is very much endangered. Bot...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has set up a website to provide the public with information relating to the U.S. federal government's National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace program, which is aimed at protecting people's identities online. One of NSTIC's goals is to...