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Android Phone Numbers Leaked By Facebook App

2013-07-08/0 Comments/in Mobile Security, Privacy/by fdesir

Snowden is now considered liable for the Biggest Leak in US

2013-07-08/0 Comments/in General Security/by SecurityOrb_Staff

Edward Snowden, former CIA employee and System Administrator at ‘Booz Allen Hamilton’ is now considered liable for the biggest leak in the US history; Snowden is staying the Moscow Airport since the US government revoked his passport.

Android Phone Numbers Leaked By Facebook App

2013-07-08/0 Comments/in Mobile Security, Privacy/by fdesir

Snowden is now considered liable for the Biggest Leak in US

2013-07-08/0 Comments/in General Security/by SecurityOrb_Staff

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Android Phone Numbers Leaked By Facebook App

2013-07-08/0 Comments/in Mobile Security, Privacy/by fdesir

An interesting article from information week: Facebook has fixed a bug in its Android app, following reports that the app was inadvertently leaking users’ phone numbers to the social network.
The “privacy leak” was spotted by Symantec, which said that the latest version of Norton Mobile Security, which includes a new Mobile Insight tool that dynamically assesses Android apps for potential security or privacy violations, had flagged Facebook’s Android app.
“The first time you launch the Facebook application, even before logging in, your phone number will be sent over the Internet to Facebook servers,” according to a Symantec blog post. “You do not need to provide your phone number, log in, initiate a specific action, or even need a Facebook account for this to happen.

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Snowden is now considered liable for the Biggest Leak in US

2013-07-08/0 Comments/in General Security/by SecurityOrb_Staff

An interesting article about Snowden by HackersNewsBulletin.com:

Snowden has already requested asylum for 21 countries, where most were influenced by the US government to refuse his request.

Ecuador embassy in UK, where the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is staying and helping Snowden to escape the US government hunt, found a Microphone spying on employees. Though pictures of the microphone indicate it’s not high-tech as ones used by the secret services nor satellite based to perform long range transmissions.

Snowden has requested asylum to 6 new countries, but the difference this time is that the names of these countries were not revealed. Venezuela’s president Maduro said today during independence ceremony yesterday “I have decided to offer humanitarian asylum to the young American, Edward Snowden, so that in the fatherland of (Simon) Bolivar and (Hugo) Chavez, he can come and live away from the imperial North American persecution”