How Facebook can track you if you have your facebook messenger app on

If you're like most, you probably don't want to broadcast your whereabouts at all times. But a lot of social media apps are tracking your location and making it easy for others to do the same. While it's A KNOWN fact that t Facebook's Messenger app uses location data, it's not so well known just how that location data can be used.

 However theres a help at hand new Google Chrome extension called Marauder's Map we now know that you can get some pretty creepy location data from the messaging app The extension, which is named after the magical map from "Harry Potter," basically reveals a person's exact location on a map. t this only works if the person you are messaging has location data for the app turned on.

If someone you are messaging has their location data turned on, you can also see almost exactly where they are located by simply clicking on the icon next to the time you sent the message..

Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite Sends User Location and Safari Search Data to Apple

Apple's latest desktop operating system, known as Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite, sends location and search data of users without their knowledge to Apple's remote servers by default whenever a user queries the desktop search tool Spotlight, which questions users' privacy once again.



The technology firm faced criticism on Monday when users came to know about the company's About Spotlight &

SEANux — Syrian Electronic Army To Release its Own Linux-based Distribution

Lots of Linux distributions are offered free of cost on the Internet by a number of companies, non-commercial organizations and by many individuals as well, and now, the notorious Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) has announced their own Linux distribution known as SEANux.



A Linux distribution is a coordinated collection of software consisting of a customized version of the kernel together

The Snappening — Snapchat Hacker Threatens to Leak thousands of Nude Images

The waves of celebrities nude photos have not yet stopped completely, and a new privacy threat has emerged exposing tens of thousands of private photographs and videos of innocent users are circulating over the Internet.



The personal image that are believed to be sent through Snapchat — the ephemeral messaging service that allows users to send pictures that should disappear after a few

Windows 10 Preview Has A Keylogger to Watch Your Every Move

This week Microsoft announced the next version of its Operating system, dubbed WIndows 10, providing Windows 10 Technical Preview release under its "Insider Program" in order to collect feedback from users and help shape the final version of the operating system, but something really went WRONG!

“Inside Microsoft’s Insider Program you'll get all the latest Windows preview builds as soon as 

Privacy-focused Tails 1.1.2 Operating System Released

Tails, a Linux-based highly secure Operating System specially designed and optimized to preserve users' anonymity and privacy, has launched its new release, Tails version 1.1.2.
Tails, also known as 'Amnesiac Incognito Live System', is a free security-focused Debian-based Linux distribution, which has a suite of applications that can be installed on a USB stick, an SD card or a DVD. It keeps

More Celebrity Nude Photos Leaked — Kim Kardashian and Others Targeted

So far people have not forgotten about the recent celebrity iCloud hacking scandal, a new wave of nude photographs of celebrities have been leaked in what appears to be the second edition of the massive leak related to the celebrities intimate-images on Internet earlier this month.



Among the victims of the most recent leak were reality television star Kim Kardashian, 33, actor Vanessa

How a Cell Phone User Can be Secretly Tracked Across the Globe

Since we are living in an era of Mass surveillance conducted by Government as well as private sector industries, and with the boom in surveillance technology, we should be much worried about our privacy.



According to the companies that create surveillance solutions for law enforcement and intelligence agencies, the surveillance tools are only for governments. But, reality is much more

New Android Browser Vulnerability Is a “Privacy Disaster” for 70% Of Android Users

A Serious vulnerability has been discovered in the Web browser installed by default on a large number (Approximately 70%) of Android devices, that could allow an attacker to hijack users' open websites, and there is now a Metasploit module available to easily exploit this dangerous flaw.



The exploit targets vulnerability (CVE-2014-6041) in Android versions 4.2.1 and all older versions and

Facebook Rolling Out Privacy Checkup for Users

Facebook has launched a new tool to help you better manage sharing your information and postings on the social network among your friends and the public at-large.



The social networking giant on Thursday rolled out its "Privacy Checkup" tool that will help its more than 1.2 billion users to audit their privacy settings on Facebook to make sure they know with whom they are sharing their

Reported Apple iCloud Hack Leaked Hundreds of Nude Celebrity Photos

Now this gonna be the height of Privacy Breach! Nude images of several high-profile persona including actors, models, singers and presenters have been made available online in a blatant hacking leak linked to the Apple iCloud service.



The recent privacy breach appears to be one of the biggest celebrity privacy breaches in history and represents a serious offense and violation of privacy. A

Google Map Tracks Your Every Move. Check Your 'Location History' to Verify It

Google has been involved in several controversies including among the companies that was claimed to cooperate with US surveillance agencies on their global data-mining programmes, and just yesterday the popular Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch labeled Google worse than the NSA, saying “NSA privacy invasion bad, but nothing compared to Google.”



Now another, but already known controversy over the

Worldview-3 — Satellite That Could Allow Google and U.S Government to See Your Face from Space

Majority of my articles are related to government spying, privacy and security issues of your online stuffs and also measures that you can adopt in protecting yourself from being spied on. But, your all efforts will soon be of no use - someone is about to secretly track your every footstep.



Google will soon get an eye in the space that will be enough powerful to see your face, thanks to the

Attackers Compromise TOR Network to De-Anonymize Users of Hidden Services

A critical vulnerability in Tor — an encrypted anonymizing network considered to be one of the most privacy oriented service, which is used by online users in order to hide their activities from law enforcement, government censors and others — was probably being used to de-anonymize the identity of Tor users, Tor project warned on Wednesday.



115 MALICIOUS ToR RELAYS WERE DE-ANONYMIZING

The Biggest Challenger to Internet Economy" is not Government but" Data Vulnerability

Online Giant Target   announced that credit and debit card information for 40 million of its customers had been compromised.  In January, Nieman Marcus reported the theft of 1.1 million credit and debit cards by hackers who had invaded its systems with malware 

DATA VULNERABILITY AND DIGITAL ECONOMY

The latest findings from the Pew Research Center suggest that Americans are concerned about online security and a quite a few believe that they had important personal information stolen and many have had an account compromised. 

Findings from a January 2014 survey show that 18% of online adults have had important personal information stolen such as their Social Security Number, credit card, or bank account information. 

That’s an increase from the 11% who reported personal information theft in July 2013. 21% of online adults said they had an email or social networking account compromised or taken over without their permission.The same number reported this experience in a July 2013 survey. 

 The recently discovered Heartbleed security flaw is the latest in a long string  data vulnerability and breach of " online users privacy"

The Heartbleed  bug starts  affecting a widely-used encryption technology ,intended to protect online transactions and accounts, went undetected for more than two years. Security researchers are unsure whether or not hackers have been exploiting the problem, but the scope of the problem is estimated to affect up to 66% of active sites on the Internet.

The extent  to which " the online economy"  is being targeted , specially those  dealing in   online shopping  transaction and ecommerce gateways   has seen a rapid increases

Online Giant Target   announced that credit and debit card information for 40 million of its customers had been compromised.  In January, Nieman Marcus reported the theft of 1.1 million credit and debit cards by hackers who had invaded its systems with malware