Another week, another post full of news link goodness such as Facebook’s agreement to FTC security audits, the EC’s upcoming 400+ page finding against Google, Carrier IQ’s impending lawsuits, Microsoft’s posting about Java being the largest malware target, and more.
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Weekly News Links
- Firefox sees Chrome closing in as IE’s share holds steady
Internet Explorer’s desktop market share, which has been in a near-constant free-fall since 2003, held steady in November. Meanwhile, Chrome has moved to within striking distance of Firefox, with Mozilla’s browser likely to lose its second place spot within the next few months. - Mozilla pushes Firefox fuddy-duddies toward the future
Mozilla has begun notifying Firefox 3.6 users that now is a good time to upgrade to Firefox 8.0.1–and to the browser’s new fast-moving ethos. - HP’s WebOS decision expected within the next two weeks
The fate of WebOS will be decided in the next couple weeks. - Facebook agrees to FTC security audits after it ‘deceived customers’
Leading social networking service Facebook has agreed to settle with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on charges that its privacy settings were deceptive to customers, and that it made privacy promises that it didn’t keep. - EC reportedly prepping 400+ page finding against Google
The European Commission will issue a lengthy Statement of Objections, the equivalent of a preliminary finding, against Google for abusing its market dominance, according to a report in the Financial Times. - Carrier IQ faces lawsuits, lawmaker seeks FTC probe
Carrier IQ’s woes continue to multiply. The Mountain View, Calif., startup now faces three lawsuits over allegations that its cellphone software violates the privacy of mobile users. A congressman has also asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission today to investigate those charges. - What does Carrier IQ do on my phone–and should I care? (FAQ)
Just what is Carrier IQ’s software doing on your phone? And do you really need to worry about it? - Govt tracking goes online, but balance needed
Governments are taking to the Web, particularly social networking sites such as Facebook, to conduct surveillance on the pretext of monitoring potential criminals and fighting crime but insiders have cautioned against state agencies overstepping into citizens’ privacy while doing so and urged them to find balance in such activities. - Stolen UN access credentials were obsolete
Talking to media in the US, a spokeswoman for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) announced that the UN server access credentials published by the TeamP0ison hacker group earlier this week were obsolete and are no longer valid. - Could your printer be a Trojan horse? Researchers say yes!
Although most people tend to think of printers as dumb boxes sitting by your desk, a new study from Columbia University researchers has found that they may be surprisingly vulnerable to sophisticated hacking attacks. - Java is the largest malware target according to Microsoft
In a posting on the Microsoft Security Blog, Tim Rains, a director of Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Group, has written of the huge number of Java exploits being found in the wild. - Public Java Exploit Amps Up Threat Level
An exploit for a recently disclosed Java vulnerability that was previously only available for purchase in the criminal underground has now been rolled into the open source Metasploit exploit framework. - Update Java to thwart active cross-platform exploit
There is a rather serious vulnerability in Java version 1.6.0_26 that is apparently being actively pursued by hackers, one that is easy to implement and allows hackers to compromise systems without being detected. - Loopholes in Verified by Visa & SecureCode
Trend Micro’s Rik Ferguson posted a good piece on Thursday about a major shortcoming in credit card security programs maintained by MasterCard and Visa. - More Kernel Vulnerabilities Found in Ubuntu OSes
Several more security vulnerabilities were recently discovered in the Linux kernel packages, affecting the Natty and Maverick backport, and EC2 Linux kernels of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, and the OMAP4 Linux kernels of Ubuntu 10.10 and Ubuntu 11.04 operating systems.
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