#LocalMess

Danny Garside

@da5nsy.social.coop.ap.brid.gy

8 months ago

You simply cannot trust these people (and should stop using their products) It's scary that Facebook's latest privacy scandal has barely broken through

I really enjoyed @gabestein's blog post on the latest #meta security scandal: #localmess

buttondown.com/gabestein/archive/you-si...

#meta #facebook #instagram #android

linux

@linux.activitypub.awakari.com.ap.brid.gy

8 months ago

Enterprise Linux Security Episode 117 – localhostile In this episode, Jay and Joao discuss how "localhost" can be used to spy on you. Also, Windows VM's on Proxmox start encountering ...

#Enterprise #Linux #Security #Podcasts #security #YouTube #Videos […]

[Audio] [Original post on learnlinux.tv]

Android

@android.activitypub.awakari.com.ap.brid.gy

9 months ago

This Week in Security: The Localhost Bypass, Reflections, and X Facebook and Yandex have been caught performing user-hostile tracking. This sort of makes today just another Friday, but this is a bi...

#Hackaday #Columns #News #Security #Hacks #LocalMess […]

[Original post on hackaday.com]

Android

@android.activitypub.awakari.com.ap.brid.gy

9 months ago

This Week in Security: The Localhost Bypass, Reflections, and X Facebook and Yandex have been caught performing user-hostile tracking. This sort of makes today just another Friday, but this is a bi...

#Hackaday #Columns #News #Security #Hacks #LocalMess […]

[Original post on hackaday.com]

Ranjit Mathew

@rmathew4bs.bsky.social

9 months ago

“Localhost tracking” explained. It could cost Meta 32 billion. You just can't finish off Zuckerberg.

“‘Localhost Tracking’ Explained. It Could Cost Meta 32 Billion.”, Zero Party Data (www.zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-...).

Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4423...

#Privacy #Security #EU #GDPR #DSA #DMA #Facebook #Meta #LocalMess #Android #Chrome #Tracking

Ranjit Mathew

@rmathew4bs.bsky.social

9 months ago

GitHub - explainers-by-googlers/local-network-access: A proposal to restrict sites from accessing a users' local network without permission A proposal to restrict sites from accessing a users' local network without permission - explainers-by-googlers/local-network-access

Block #localhost access from the #web by default for better #security 👍🏽:

“Explainer For Local Network Access”, Chrome, Google (github.com/explainers-b...).

Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4418...

#Chrome #Google #Privacy #Internet #Browser #LocalMess #Android #Facebook

Ranjit Mathew

@rmathew4bs.bsky.social

9 months ago

In which #Facebook / #Meta does more evil things 😠:

“Disclosure: Covert Web-To-App Tracking Via Localhost On Android”, Local Mess (localmess.github.io).

Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4416...

#Privacy #Security #LocalMess #Localhost #Android #Internet #Tracking #Web

Richi Jennings

@richi.bsky.social

9 months ago

Meta’s Secret Spyware: ‘Local Mess’ Hack Tracks You Across the Web Farcebok: Zuckerberg’s privacy pledge revealed as ineffectual

Millions of websites leaking your private information to #Meta. By hacking #Android browser features, Meta is tracking you all the way around the web—with no disclosure.

As soon as researchers disclosed the #LocalMess problem, Meta stopped it—for now. In #SBBlogwatch, we go live in a cave:

Salum Abdul-Rahman

@salum.bsky.social

9 months ago

"We found that native #Android apps—including #Facebook, #Instagram, and several #Yandex apps including Maps and Browser—silently listen on fixed local ports for tracking purposes." #localmess localmess.github.io