Google Fined $57M in Largest GDPR Slap Yet

France’s National Data Protection Commission CNIL has fined Google $57 million €50 million for violations of the General Data Protection Regulation GDPR – the largest fine yet issued under the EU’s new data privacy law. In investigating group complaints from privacy advocacy groups None Of Your...

Google fined $57 million by France for lack of transparency and consent

The French data protection watchdog CNIL has issued its first fine of €50 million around $57 million under the European Union's new General Data Protection Regulation GDPR law that came into force in May last year. The fine has been levied on Google for "lack of transparency, inadequate informati...

How Facebook Tracks Non-Users via Android Apps

LEIPZIG, GERMANY – If you quit Facebook or never joined because of its data collecting practices the odds are good the social network is still tracking you – despite your protest. Facebook collects data of non-users of its social network via dozens of mainstream Android apps that send tracking an...

Apps on smartphones are selling and sharing our location data 24/7

By Waqas It's no surprise that the apps we download on our smartphones are tracking our movements and also transferring the information to third parties without our consent. Last year it was Google caught collecting location data of Android users even if their device's location service was off th...

Microsoft Calls For Facial Recognition Tech Regulation

As facial recognition continues to gain traction in public use cases, Microsoft on Thursday called for regulation of the technology, citing heightened concerns around privacy and consent. Over the past year, facial recognition technology has started to pop up in various government-related...

Privilege Escalation

cloudfoundry-identity-server is vulnerable to privilege escalation attacks. The vulnerability exists due to an error in validation, allowing an authenticated user to gain an OAuth token with arbitrary scopes by modifying the url and content of the consent page...

Cloud Foundry UAA release and UAA elevation of privilege vulnerabilities

Both uaa-release and uaa are different versions of Cloud Foundry's authentication and management service endpoints. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Cloud Foundry UAA release before 64.0 and UAA before 4.23.0. The vulnerability stems from an authentication error in both. An...

CVE-2018-15761

Cloud Foundry UAA release, versions prior to v64.0, and UAA, versions prior to 4.23.0, contains a validation error which allows for privilege escalation. A remote authenticated user may modify the url and content of a consent page to gain a token with arbitrary scopes that escalates their...

CVE-2018-15761 UAA Privilege Escalation

Cloud Foundry UAA release, versions prior to v64.0, and UAA, versions prior to 4.23.0, contains a validation error which allows for privilege escalation. A remote authenticated user may modify the url and content of a consent page to gain a token with arbitrary scopes that escalates their...

Microsoft Windows: Configure Default consent

This policy setting determines the default consent behavior of Windows Error Reporting. If you enable this policy setting, you can set the default consent handling for error reports. The following list describes the Consent level settings that are available in the pull-down menu in this policy...

CVE-2018-15761: UAA Privilege Escalation | Cloud Foundry

Severity Critical Vendor Cloud Foundry Foundation Affected Cloud Foundry Products and Versions You are using uaa-release versions prior to v64.0 You are using uaa versions prior to 4.23.0 Description Cloud Foundry UAA, release versions prior to v64.0, contains a validation error which allows for...

Windows 10 Bug Let UWP Apps Access All Files Without Users' Consent

Microsoft silently patched a bug in its Windows 10 operating system with the October 2018 update version 1809 that allowed Microsoft Store apps with extensive file system permission to access all files on users' computers without their consent. With Windows 10, Microsoft introduced a common...

Windows 10 Bug Let UWP Apps Access All Files Without Users' Consent

Microsoft silently patched a bug in its Windows 10 operating system with the October 2018 update version 1809 that allowed Microsoft Store apps with extensive file system permission to access all files on users' computers without their consent. With Windows 10, Microsoft introduced a common...

CVE-2018-18703

PhpTpoint Mailing Server Using File Handling 1.0 suffers from multiple Arbitrary File Read vulnerabilities in different sections that allow an attacker to read sensitive files on the system via directory traversal, bypassing the login page, as demonstrated by the Mailserverfilesystem/home.php...

Facebook Fined £500,000 for Cambridge Analytica Data Scandal

Facebook has finally been slapped with its first fine of £500,000 for allowing political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica to improperly gather and misuse data of 87 million users. The fine has been imposed by the UK's Information Commissioner's Office ICO and was calculated using the UK's old...

CVE-2018-12365

A compromised IPC child process can escape the content sandbox and list the names of arbitrary files on the file system without user consent or interaction. This could result in exposure of private local files. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird 60, Thunderbird 52.9, Firefox ESR 60.1, Firefox...

CVE-2018-12365

A compromised IPC child process can escape the content sandbox and list the names of arbitrary files on the file system without user consent or interaction. This could result in exposure of private local files. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird 60, Thunderbird 52.9, Firefox ESR 60.1, Firefox...

CVE-2018-12365

A compromised IPC child process can escape the content sandbox and list the names of arbitrary files on the file system without user consent or interaction. This could result in exposure of private local files. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird 60, Thunderbird 52.9, Firefox ESR 60.1, Firefox...

AutoRDPwn - The Shadow Attack Framework

AutoRDPwn is a script created in Powershell and designed to automate the Shadow attack on Microsoft Windows computers. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to view his victim's desktop without his consent, and even control it on request. For its correct operation, it is necessary to comply...

Helen Nissenbaum on Data Privacy and Consent

This is a fantastic Q with Cornell Tech Professor Helen Nissenbaum on data privacy and why it's wrong to focus on consent. I'm not going to pull a quote, because you should read the whole thing...