Australia Anti-Encryption Law Triggers Sweeping Backlash

A controversial Australian bill, which could give the government access to data protected by end-to-end encryption, was passed Thursday. The bill, called the Assistance and Access Act, empowers Australian police to essentially force companies that are operating in the country to help the governme...

Red Hat keycloak denial of service vulnerability

Red Hat keycloak is a suite of software from Red Hat, Inc. that provides authentication and management capabilities for modern applications and services. A security vulnerability exists in the SAML broker consumer endpoint in versions prior to Red Hat keycloak 4.6.0.Final, which stems from a...

Lenovo Ordered to Pay $7.3M in Superfish Fiasco

A federal court has approved a super-sized payout fund for Lenovo, which will be required to create a $7.3 million reservoir, set aside for settling a class action lawsuit over surreptitious adware installations. Last week, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted...

What the Marriott Breach Says About Security

We don't yet know the root causes that forced Marriott this week to disclose a four-year-long breach involving the personal and financial information of 500 million guests of its Starwood hotel properties. But anytime we see such a colossal intrusion go undetected for so long, the ultimate cause ...

muslimconsumergroup.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-703725 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| muslimconsumergroup.com Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| hidden until disclosure Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:|...

As Black Friday Looms, IoT Gadgets Take the Risk Spotlight

With the holiday shopping season poised to officially kick off this weekend, it’s likely that connected gadgets and toys are high atop many a consumer wish-list. As those of us in the security space know, however, internet of things IoT devices can quickly go from fun to creepy, depending on how...

Ford Eyes Using Personal Data to Boost Profits

UPDATE Ford Motor Company is known for making cars and trucks; but the future for the iconic automaker might look a little more like Facebook than an assembly line. As it struggles with hemorrhaging earnings in markets outside of North America, industry-watchers are speculating that Ford is looki...

Consumer Advice: Kids GPS tracker watch security

Parents are advised to rethink using GPS tracking watches for their children as a result of serious security concerns. Tracker watches can be worn by children and report their position to their parents via a mobile app. They are designed to increase child safety: you always know where your child...

New IoT Security Regulations

Due to ever-evolving technological advances, manufacturers are connecting consumer goods­ -- from toys to light bulbs to major appliances­ -- to the Internet at breakneck speeds. This is the Internet of Things, and it's a security nightmare. The Internet of Things fuses products with communicatio...

Lawsuits Aim Billions in Fines at Equifax and Ad-Targeting Companies

Equifax, Experian and Oracle are among a slate of companies whose business is consumer information, that could soon face billions of dollars in fines for improper data handling. Privacy International has filed complaints against seven corporations, consisting of data brokers Acxiom and Oracle,...

ThreatList: Despite Fraud Awareness, Password Reuse Persists for Half of U.S. Consumers

As National Fraud Day approaches Nov. 11, it remains clear that more consumer education is required when it comes to thwarting scammers and identity thieves. Despite almost half of U.S. consumers 49 percent believing their security habits make them vulnerable to information fraud or identity thef...

SMS Phishing + Cardless ATM = Profit

Thieves are combining SMS-based phishing attacks with new "cardless" ATMs to rapidly convert phished bank account credentials into cash. Recent arrests in Ohio shed light on how this scam works. A number of financial institutions are now offering cardless ATM transactions that allow customers to...

ThreatList: 1 Out of 5 Would Ditch a Business After a Data Breach

About a fifth of Americans would ditch a business in the wake of a major data breach, new research has found. In a survey of 2,000 adult consumers across the United States by PCI Pal, almost half 44 percent of them have personally suffered the negative consequences of a security breach or hack. S...

CVE-2018-18328

A KERedirect Untrusted Pointer Dereference Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac Consumer 7.0 2017 and above could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges on vulnerable installations. The issue results from the lack of proper validation function on 0x6F6A offse...

CVE-2018-18328

CVE-2018-18328 affects Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac (Consumer) versions 7.0 (2017) and newer. The root cause is a KERedirect untrusted pointer dereference due to a lack of proper validation of a user‑supplied buffer at offset 0x6F6A, leading to a privilege escalation. An attacker must first gain...

Obamacare Sign-Up Channel Breach Affects 75K Consumers

A hack of the government’s Affordable Care Act-mandated healthcare exchanges has exposed the files of 75,000 individuals. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services CMS, its staff detected “anomalous activity” in the Direct Enrollment pathway on Oct. 13 – with a breach declared...

au.org.consumerdatastandards:client-cli (>=1.1.1 <=2.4.1), fm.pattern:tokamak-authorization (=1.0.1) +17 more potentially affected by CVE-2018-1260 via org.springframework.security.oauth:spring-security-oauth2 (>=2.1.0.RELEASE <=2.1.1.RELEASE)

org.springframework.security.oauth:spring-security-oauth2 MAVEN version =2.1.0.RELEASE, =1.1.1, =1.2.0, =1.0.0, =1.0.0, =1.0.0, =1.0.0, =1.0.0, =1.9.0, =1.9.0, =1.3.0, =1.3.0, =1.3.4 and more Source cves: CVE-2018-1260 Source advisory: OSV:GHSA-RRPM-PJ7P-7J9Qhttps://vulners.c...

GHSA-26V6-W6FW-RH94 Apache Camel can allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands

Apache Camel 2.6.x through 2.14.x, 2.15.x before 2.15.5, and 2.16.x before 2.16.1, when using 1 camel-jetty or 2 camel-servlet as a consumer in Camel routes, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted serialized Java object in an HTTP request...

Privacy Regulation Could Be a Test for States’ Rights

When the California Consumer Privacy Act CCPA passed in June, security experts applauded the state legislation as a win for consumers. The ruling gave residents certain rights around how their personal data can be stored, accessed, sold and deleted. But months later in September, the U.S. Chamber...

How DNA Databases Violate Everyone's Privacy

If you're an American of European descent, there's a 60% chance you can be uniquely identified by public information in DNA databases. This is not information that you have made public; this is information your relatives have made public. Research paper: "Identity inference of genomic data using...