The personal details of more than a fifth of Facebook’s estimated 500 million users have been “leaked” to the internet by campaigners highlighting its “terrifying” privacy fears. The list, which has been published in a downloadable file, contains the URL of every searchable Facebook user’s profiles, their names and unique ID. Campaigners warned the...
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Up to 114,000 iPad owners have had their privacy breached thanks to a snafu on the part of AT&T that ultimately (but inadvertently) traded user convenience for security. The vulnerability was discovered by researchers at Goatse security, who were able to write a script that harvested iPad 3G owners’ ICC-IDs (or integrated circuit card...
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With the launch of Apple’s own iAd network imminent, Cupertino has chosen to clarify its position in regards to third-party advertisers: app developers are still allowed to pass on certain non-device data to ad companies besides iAd, but you need Apple’s explicit permission to do so… and you definitely can’t do it if the...
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It’s almost over, but like usual, there just “one more thing” and while we all knew it was coming, it’s the first time it’s been directly confirmed: a front-mounted camera on iPhone 4 that allows for user-to-user video chat. Calling Jonathan Ive on his iPhone 4 to demo the new iPhone’s video chat capability...
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Last week we reported that hackers were going after Google Chrome users by disguising trojans as browser extensions. Now they’re going after owners of that fancy new iPad, basically using the same email scheme as before but with a slight alteration. This time users are directed to download a software update by clicking on...
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A Japanese cyber gang has come up with a way to extortmoney off those who pirate adult games: Pay up, or you’ll be embarrassed online. According to Computerworld, this type of scam is a new one in the world of “ransomware”–the practice of holding hostage a computer system or the data it contains, and...
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There are quite a few similar services around, but Cloud is the latest of the instant file sharing apps, and it’s very nicely done. The aim is to make sharing of files – any files – as quick and painless as possible. Whatever you wish you share, you drag up to the icon in...
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To kill all processes of a particular user from root at unix prompt type: # kill -9 `ps -fu username |awk ‘{ print $2 }’|grep -v PID` We can also use the username as an argument and pass it from command line, if this command is put as a script.
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It’s the publicity around zero-day bugs that drive Windows users to patch their software quickly, not the fact that Microsoft sounds the alarm by issuing an emergency update, a researcher said today. Windows users rush to patch whenever a zero-day vulnerability is involved, even when Microsoft doesn’t deliver the fix in an out-of-band update,...
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The somewhat unusual user interface changes in the upcoming release of Ubuntu continue to generate opinions in online forums and blogs. Last week, project founder Mark Shuttleworth posted a few thoughts regarding these changes on his personal blog: “One of the driving mantras for us is ‘less is more’. I want us to ‘clean...
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