Byron Spice writes: Many smartphone users know that free apps sometimes share private information with third parties, but few, if any, are aware of how frequently this occurs. An experiment at Carnegie Mellon University shows that when people learn exactly how many times these apps share that information they rapidly act to limit further sharing….
Category: Breaches
How to steal personal information with only €70
Neil Ford writes: It’s axiomatic that public Wi-Fi is unsecure – as was demonstrated earlier this year when a seven-year-old child hacked a coffee shop network in minutes. Public hotspots are unsecured to allow users to log on, and as an ordinary customer you can’t verify the legitimacy of a network when you’ve only got its…
Why Doesn’t Massachusetts Have a Revenge Porn Law?
Massachusetts, which is ahead of most states when it comes to strong data breach laws, does not have any law dealing with revenge porn, although 15 other states already have laws on their books. Allison Pohle uses the case of one woman to illustrate the problems victims have: Smith’s attorney is Wellesley-based Mitchell J. Matorin. He told…
Facebook Vulnerability Leaks Users’ Private Photos
Swati Khandelwal writes: If you have enabled automatic Facebook Photo Sync feature on your iPhone, iPad or Android devices, then Beware! Hackers can steal your personal photographs without your knowledge. In 2012, the social network giant introduced Facebook Photo Sync feature for iPhone, iPad and Android devices which, if opt-in, allows Facebook to automatically sync…