Dan Goodin reports: Attack code that exploits a privacy information leak introduced in the latest version of Firefox is available online, making it easy for malicious websites to gather detailed information about users’ browsing history unless they downgrade to the previous Mozilla release. As previously reported, Mozilla officials took the unusual step of temporarily removing Firefox…
Facebook confirms researcher exploited privacy settings to quickly collect user phone numbers
Emil Protalinski writes: On Friday, a researcher by the name of Suriya Prakash claimed that the majority of phone numbers on Facebook are not safe. It’s not clear where he got his numbers from (he says 98 percent, while another time he says 500 million out of Facebook’s600 million mobile users), but his demonstration certainly showed he…
Apple Has Quietly Started Tracking iPhone Users Again, And It’s Tricky To Opt Out (update1)
Jim Edwards reports: Apple’s launch of the iPhone 5 in September came with a bunch of new commercials to promote the device. But Apple didn’t shout quite so loud about an enhancement to its new mobile operating system, iOS 6, which also occurred in September: The company has started tracking users so that advertisers can target them again, through a…
If I Fly a UAV Over My Neighbor’s House, Is It Trespassing?
Alexis C. Madrigal writes: My poor kitten, who my unfortunate Instagram contacts know too well, gets beat up every time he goes outside. There’s a bully cat in the neighborhood who appears to relish in attacking cute, fluffy things as soon as they get out of human oversight. So, naturally, I bought a Parrot AR.Drone.2.0, a…