Natasha Singer reports: Last summer, employees at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration received an in-house newsletter illustrated with mock front pages of USA Today and The Washington Post and seemingly hyperbolic headlines like: “NASA Laptop Stolen, Potential Compromise of 10,000 Employees’ Private Information!” The catastrophizing turned out to be prescient. Read more on The New York…
Category: Breaches
iOS 6.1 hack lets users see your phone app, place calls
Don Reisinger reports: Some sleight of hand will allow iOS 6.1 hackers to access your phone application, listen to your voice mails, and place calls. A YouTube video showing users how to “bypass iPhone 5 passcode” on Apple’s latest iOS releases, including iOS 6.1, has been published. The person who uploaded the video shows how anyone can access the…
Google Play privacy breach (updated with Google’s response)
Dan Nolan writes: About a month ago I put my money where my mouth was and built a version of the Paul Keating insult generator for Android (after the iOS version hit number 1 in the Australian App Store [tell your friends]). We sold a few hundred copies on Android in the last month, so…
Flickr Admits To A Bug That Made Private Photos Public
Taylor Hatmaker writes: If you’re a Flickr user, you may want to dig through that bulk inbox for an important heads-up from the photo sharing site. Reports have emerged that between Jan. 18 and Feb. 7, a portion of Flickr users’ private photos were made public due to a software bug discovered during routine maintenance. While the photos wouldn’t have…