Apple has always been pretty proud of the way its iPhone handles security, and for good reason. While Android users have had countless apps stealing data, mugging old ladies and generally being bad news, Apple's App Store review process has kept the baddies out of iOS.
People take privacy on Facebook very, very seriously, and for good reason. You don't want people seeing things that you thought were private, or a larger group of people seeing something that you though was only visible to a select few.
According to YGN Ethical Hacker Group, a Myanmar-based white hat group, Apple's developer site contains a vulnerability that could open the door for phishing attacks, allowing personal information to be stolen.
LulzSec Has Released 150,000+ User Credentials. Use This Tool To Check If Your Password Is Out There
LulzSec are the new hackers on the block, and they mean business. Over the last five weeks Lulz Security have been on a hacking spree, targeting a number of high profile companies across a selection of varied industries.
If you're an Android user, you better stay on the lookout for a new form of Android malware: DroidKungFu. Discovered by Assistant Professor Xuxian Jiang and Ph. D. student Yajin Zhou, both from North Carolina State University, this reflects yet another evidence that hackers are interested in this open but also largely unprotected platform.
Google revealed in an incredibly well-explained and sugar-coated blog post that the company had detected a phishing scam which attempted to obtain the passwords of U.S. Officials and Chinese activists.
Security is high on everyone's list of priorities these days, especially with Sony still battling to bring its PlayStation network and Qriocity services back online after a security breach potentially leaked millions of users' personal information. Now Facebook is offering a new tool to try and prevent unauthorized access to your account.
Facebook and privacy just don't seem to be the best of friends, and today the social network had to remove a whole API in order to stop personal data being accessible by third parties.
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