(LiveHacking.Com) - Facebook, the popular social media network, has redesigned its privacy controls allowing users to manage the sharing setting for each and every item posted online. Facebook has often been criticized over its security and privacy policies especially since it has more than 750 million active users who are posting, often personal, details to the [...]
Telecommunications provider Nokia took down its developer community website after a hacker obtained database tables with user account information. Nokia conducted a thorough investigation, and have discovered that a database table which contains developer forum members’ e-mail addresses has been hacked into. Hackers exploited the vulnerability in the bulletin board software that allowed an SQL [...]
April 2, 2011: Anonymous, the online hactivist collective, begins Operation: Sony, a series of DoS (denial of service) attacks on Sony’s websites April 11, 2011: Sony announces the case between George Hotz and Sony has been settled out of court and that Hotz has agreed to take down his website. April 13, 2011: Anonymous releases [...]
