Posts Tagged ‘third parties’

Millions have not reviewed Facebook privacy settings: Here’s how

May

2012

Here are two staggering Facebook privacy statistics: Nearly 13 million US Facebook users have never set, or don’t know about, Facebook’s privacy tools, and only 37 percent have used Facebook's privacy tools to customize how much information is shared with third parties. That's according to a Consumer Reports survey released earlier this month. Given that […]

Category General Written by ESET ThreatBlog 0 Comments

An Update on Android.Counterclank

Jan

2012

Last week, we posted a blog informing Android users of the discovery of new versions of Android.Tonclank, which we have named Android.Counterclank. The blog generated a bit of discussion over whether these new versions should be a concern to Android users. When classifying applications, our focus is on whether users want to be informed of […]

Category General Written by Symantec Security Response Blog 0 Comments

Google serves ad for Adware/Spyware

Jan

2012

Last year, we wrote about Bing and Yahoo! serving ads leading to malicious websites. This week, it was Google who inserted ads for adware/spyware. I found a suspicious ad in my Google Reader for a free FLV player. I’ve recently shown that this type of free software is regularly repackaged with adware/spyware for profit. The ad leads […]

Category Security Written by Zscaler Research 0 Comments

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