Two congressmen have accused Facebook of dodging questions about whether it tracks the activity of its 800 million members. On Monday, Representatives Ed Markey (D-Mass) and Joe Barton (R-Tex.) questioned the reasoning behind a recent patent application by the site that suggests it may use information from its users for targeted advertisements.
Security researcher Michal Zalewski has released a new version of a passive fingerprinting tool called P0f that has the ability to diagnose a wide range of components in an Internet connection, even uncovering clients that are trying to forge some part of their identity in the connection.
The FBI issued a warning late last week about ‘Gameover,’ a variant of the Zeus malware that can steal usernames and passwords. The malware is being propagated through spam e-mails purporting to come from the National Automated Clearing House Association (NACHA), the Federal Reserve Bank and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
Adobe said on Friday that it will issue critical fixes for its popular Reader and Acrobat products on Tuesday, January 10.
Google has released a new version of its Chrome browser, fixing just a small handful of vulnerabilities in the process. All three of the bugs fixed in Chrome were rated high.
Recent data shows that the share of Web traffic in the U.S. that’s being viewed on the troubled Internet Explorer Version 6 browser has finally dropped beneath 1%, and nobody is happier about it than parent company, Microsoft, which launched a program to eradicate IE6 back in March, 2011.
At any given time, there are probably dozens of somewhat serious SQL injection attacks going on in various portions of the Internet. But many of them never get noticed by most people, either because they’re not widespread enough or they’re not hitting high-profile targets. There’s one that’s been ongoing for several weeks now that has hit a threshold that commands some attention: more than a million infected URLs.
A pair of researchers have identified a cross-site scripting vulnerability in WordPress 3.3, however the bug is only reproducible on installations that were installed using an IP address rather than a domain.
A researcher at Kaspersky Lab is warning of a new scam that pastes racy photos to victims’ Facebook pages while forcing them to view Web-based advertisements promoted by the scammers.
A group of hackers are reportedly declaring war on Internet censorship, and they plan to fight back with their own satellite communications network.
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