If you are on facebook, and believe that its is a safe place to share your Personal stuff, take this: User data for  171 Million Facebook profiles has been leaked on to Torrents.

Facebook recently announced 500 Million users, of which 100 Million are leaked and are fully available, uncesored, unaltered for download on PirateBay. Every 3rd profile is .. Read Further »

Everyone is complaining about Facebook’s privacy negligence: The configuration to control privacy is hard for most users to adjust, as a result of which, most users are unaware of the privacy hit everytime the post on Facebook.

Forget .. Read Further »

The amazing street mapping service from Google: “Street view” has ruled 1000s of other Map services by provding superior Street details. They capture street images using dedicated vehicles which also happened to capture basic WiFi info like Mac Address, SSID and Location, which actually helps them locating users without use of GPS.

Technology always gives you a double-edged sword. The one that lets you cut through the gates, and the other side can cut the holding hand. Similar the story of Traceability and the privacy.

The number of spamming, phishing have taken a new Horizon. Leaving the web aside, apart from spamming, Phishing is common on phones too. Consider this, you get a call from a correspondent who pretends to be from your bank and with little “intelligently faked” information about you, (say some kind of your recent activity), would be enough for you to trust the other party. In fact, in 95% of the cases, users would fall for it without bearing a doubt in .. Read Further »

If you thought cookies reveal alot about your identity over the internet, probably you need to rethink.  A new type of tracking is now considered to be way more powerful, and yet you don’t have a clue about it.

The method grabs a large amount of data about your browser, such as plug-ins, system fonts, and your operating system, screen resolution, etc. Each one when considered alone, they don’t identify you. But when collaborated, they’re a digital fingerprint: A Digital replica of you identity on the web.

It’s like .. Read Further »

How many time did you login to your email account publicly and feared if someone might keylog you? Of course prevention is way better then the aftermath but Gmail has taken the next steps in protecting your account from simultaneous logins, preventing suspicious activities.

The end of Internet Explorer is finally here. Series of events: Google Hacking, removal of support for Google apps, several other vulnerabilities are forcing users to move to alternates.

Recently, at Black Hat DC conference, a security consultant (Jorge Luis Alvarez Medina) demoed how it’s possible to exploit a flaw in Internet Explorer browser that turns your personal computer into a public file server. In other words, attacker can remotely read files on the .. Read Further »

Who was that someone shouting loud that only Jailbreaking makes iPhone insecure?  We now have a new App that makes even an UnModified/Virgin iPhone leak personal data like you have never seen before.

A Swiss iPhone developer has unveiled a new application that is capable of harvesting huge amounts of personal data from iPhones, including geolocation data, passwords, address book entries and email accounts information, images, Safari Browsing history, youtube, keyboard logger, etc. all this using just the public API exposed by Apple’s SDK.

In oder for this application, SpyPhone,  to work, it does not need any exploits or any jailbreaking/firmware modification, attacks in order to access the iPhone’s data. Instead, SpyPhone relies on using the iPhone’s .. Read Further »

With over 350 Million users on Facebook and adding severall 100,000s everyday, the world had been truly holding their privacy at Facebook’s stake.

Often, Facebook `s apps been known for their scam activity. For those who don’t know, the most popular game FarmVille is nothing but  ScamVille, and KoobFace is one worm that almost infected millions.

Everything that you now do on Facebook is configurable. Users can now designate content they post as being viewable to just friends, or friends of .. Read Further »

Google is God, and that is the reason why we fear it. It knows everything we do, monitors our email, contacts, IM, friends, search, web behavior, like n dislikes and what not. Earlier, like million others, we raised concerns over Googple Apps and Privacy, can we trust Google?

Finally, Google has taken a wise decision to counter the concern. The step is to comply with Data Liberation Front.

Starting Today, Google will give you the power to manage the Data that is exposed to .. Read Further »