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Security researcher Egor Homakov has discovered a Twitter vulnerability which allows apps to send DMs without requiring explicit user permission. TNW has verified the findings and can ...
Gust MEES's insight:
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Protect yourself from harmful Facebook apps which access your personal data and perform actions without your permission.
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Oops! LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD) has been caught copying sensitive data from users' iOS and Android calendars, allegedly without permission. Some say the data are sent in plain text. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers posit another post-PC pandemonium.
Read more, A MUST: http://blogs.computerworld.com/20270/linkedin_leaks_private_data_unencrypted
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News has recently surfaced over an Android and iOS security hole, but that story has been mixed up as to where the vulnerability exists. Siting problems with Facebook's mobile ...
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"There should be millions of Twitter users that have signed in with Twitter into third-party applications. Some of these applications might have gained access to and might still have access to Twitter users private direct messages," he points out, and advises users to check third-party applications permissions and revoke the apps to which they never gave permission to access their DMs. Via Gust MEES
Gust MEES's insight:
===> check third-party applications permissions and revoke the apps to which they never gave permission to access YOUR DMs. <===
Gust MEES's curator insight,
January 22, 2013 11:42 AM
===> check third-party applications permissions and revoke the apps to which they never gave permission to access YOUR DMs. <===
Check ALSO:
- https://twitter.com/settings/applications
- http://blog.ioactive.com/2013/01/you-can-not-trust-social-media-twitter-vulnerable.html
- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/naivety-in-the-digital-age/
Gust MEES's curator insight,
January 22, 2013 11:52 AM
===> check third-party applications permissions and revoke the apps to which they never gave permission to access YOUR DMs. <===
Gust MEES's curator insight,
January 22, 2013 11:54 AM
===> check third-party applications permissions and revoke the apps to which they never gave permission to access YOUR DMs. <===
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Im Social Network Facebook kursiert aktuell eine gefälschte WhatsApp-Anwendung, die Nutzerdaten stiehlt.
Sind die App-Rechte erteilt, haben die Betrüger anschließend Zugriff auf die Freundesliste, die Nutzer-ID, das Geschlecht, den Namen, das Profilbild, alle hochgeladenen Bilder sowie mit anderen Usern geteilte Informationen. Die betrügerische Anwendung greift für ihre Verbreitung auf eine Sicherheitslücke im sozialen Netzwerk zurück.
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Flawed mobile apps for Facebook, Dropbox, LinkedIn, and likely others save user authentication data as easy-to-swipe plain text files...
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Apple, Beluga, Burbn, Chillingo, Electronic Arts, Facebook, Foodspotting, Foursquare Labs, Gowalla, Hipster, Instagram, Kik, LinkedIn, Path, Rovio Mob... Via Gust MEES
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Learn more:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/apps-for-any-use-mostly-for-education-and-free
Learn more:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/apps-for-any-use-mostly-for-education-and-free