Facebook Sues Canadian Company Over Hacking
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Facebook is suing seventeen people and a Canadian Internet porn company for allegedly trying to mine the popular social networking site for its usersâ personal details.
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Exploit code affecting an unpatched flaw in an image uploader used by both Facebook and MySpace is circulating publicly.
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Facebook has launched a licensing program to allow other social networks to use its technology.
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The social network claims a bot from the Canadian porn site tried to gather its members' data.
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Sears Holdings is facing a class-action lawsuit after&#160;making the purchase history of its customers public&#160;on its Managemyhome.com Web site.The lawsuit seeks damages as well as an accounting by Sears to determine whether the Web site was misused by criminals. It was filed on Friday by New Jersey resident Christine Desantis, who is represented by KamberEdelson, a technology law firm. KamberEdelson is best known for its recent settlement with social networking site Facebook over its sending of unwanted text messages to recycled cell-phone numbers.&quot;It&#39;s a pretty simple case,&quot; said Jay Edelson, a partner with the Chicago-based law firm. &quot;Sears decided to put private information of its customers up on the Web site and make it publicly available. They did it without telling their customers that it was going to happen ... and they really did it for their own financial reasons.&quot;Manage My Home is a community portal where Sears shoppers can download product manuals, find product tips and get home renovation ideas. The Web site had a feature called &quot;Find your products&quot; that ostensibly was designed to help users look up past purchases.Last Thursday, researchers at security vendor CA pointed out that the feature could be used to look up the purchase history of any Sears customer, an apparent violation of the company&#39;s privacy policy.Manage My Home could easily have been misused by criminals, Edelson said. For example, a robber could gain access to a victim&#39;s home by posing as a Sears repair person, using the information available on the site. That could be incredibly scary, he said. &quot;They have a duty to keep that information away from the public.&quot;Sears disabled the &quot;Find your products&quot; feature&#160;on Friday, saying it would re-introduce the feature once the company figures out a way of ensuring that the information cannot be viewed by unauthorized third parties.However, the retailer was informed of the problem weeks before it took the feature off-line, Edelson said.In late December, CA researchers also criticized Sears for&#160;downloading invasive comScore Web tracking software&#160;onto the desktops of some members of its MySHCcommunity.com Web site without adequate disclosure.KamberEdelson is also investigating that matter, Edelson said.&#160;
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Apple is suing anonymous individuals who it accuses of leaking details to the Web of its unreleased products. The company filed suit in the Santa Clara County California Superior Court on December 13.
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Networking website Facebook is to face legal action on Wednesday in a suit brought by a rival site's founders.
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Nasty ActiveExploit Security flaws in an ActiveX control used in MySpace upload images onto the social networking sites leave users open to attack. Facebook users may also be at risk.â¦
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ExpertSource:     TOPIC: The Federal Trade Commission fined Xanga.com, a social networking Web site, $1 million for violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), according to an article by MSNBC.
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Social networking sites drew security concerns along with new audiences and investments from major tech players.
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Facebook's advertising system provokes questions about how companies share data.
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Microsoft and Amazon.com are teaming up to sue a Canadian-based company that they say ran a phishing scheme. &quot;They are going to crush this guy legally,&quot; Panda Software CTO Patrick Hinojosa Hinojosa gleefully observes.
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If it was created in the course of business Employers could have grounds to demand ownership of employees' social networking profiles, such as those generated on Facebook, MySpace or Bebo, according to a leading intellectual property lawyer.â¦
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Earthlink filed a federal lawsuit in Atlanta, Georgia, accusing 50 &quot;John Does&quot; of violating the federal CAN-SPAM Act and various other state and federal statutes, including the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the Georgia Computer Systems Protection
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Online fraudsters are targeting Facebook users with the same scam tactics that have been used for years to steal passwords for banks and PayPal. While the target is different, the motive remains the same: money.
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A company which makes software that infiltrates users&#39; computers and demands $30 to be removed has been targeted by US authorities.
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IP defences tested GraphOn, the Santa Cruz, CA software maker has filed a lawsuit against Juniper Networks, alleging infringement of three patents related to firewall technology.â¦