Less than two days after it was detected a vulnerability (CVE-2014-6271) that affects the Bash shell on Linux, Unix and Mac OS X, a patch was released that solves this issue only partially, which forced to report a new vulnerability (CVE-2014-7169) still pending. This issue has quickly gained a simple name by which it will be remembered for a long time: Shellshock or Shell Shock.
Following its purchase by Facebook a few months ago, Instagram released last Monday 12/17/2012 an updated version of its privacy policy and terms of service that involves severe changes affecting everyone who publish their pictures on this huge social network wich a few months ago beat 100 million users.
As of January 16, 2013, all new pictures uploaded to Instagram may be sold to others and they have no obligation to compensate you for it, or even notice to you. That means for example that your photos, whether a landscape, a monument or yourself, may appear in any advertisement or as a part of the cover of a magazine.
In the last few hours I detected a growing number of Facebook posts from many users who claim copyright over their own pictures. Well, after some research I confirmed what I suspected: this is an Hoax, ie a false viral message that Facebook users are massively posting on their walls.
Google goes one step further with its Google Maps service and adds an aerial 3D view to the popular “Get directions” tool which indicates the best route between two or more geographic locations.
