PTP, IoT & the Norwegian Government

We were privileged to be invited to speak an event in Arendal, Norway yesterday to make the case for IoT regulation. 'Arendalsuka' is the largest political gathering in Norway, an open forum event where the public can interact directly with political leaders, business leaders, entrepreneurs,...

Consumer DNA Testing Takes a Step Towards Privacy, Transparency

A group of well-known genetic testing providers have partnered with the Future of Privacy Forum FPF to establish privacy guidelines for handling information about what is arguably the most personal private information there is: DNA. Consumer-grade DNA testing – i.e., services that allow folks at...

Onwards and Upwards: Our GDPR Journey and Looking Ahead

At Imperva, our world revolves around data security, data protection, and data privacy. From our newest recruits to the most seasoned members of the executive team, we believe that customer privacy is key. For the better part of the last two years, Imperva has laid the foundation for our complian...

Facebook Security Exec Calls for Tightened Data Privacy

Facebook’s outgoing chief information security officer Alex Stamos has urged the social media company to rethink its approach to data privacy. The executive, whose exit has been widely reported on for months, wrote an internal note to staff that called for changes in how Facebook approaches data...

Privacy Questions Raised as Tech Giants Join Forces on Data Portability

A veritable who’s who of tech giants from Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter, went public last week with a partnership on a standards initiative called the Data Transfer Project DTP, built to enable data portability between cloud platforms. But security researchers believe the project’s...

Human Resources Firm ComplyRight Breached

Cloud-based human resources company ComplyRight said this week that a security breach of its Web site may have jeopardized sensitive consumer information -- including names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and Social Security numbers -- from tax forms submitted by the company's thousand...

EU Cybersecurity Act IoT FAIL

The EU recently announced that its plans for a Cybersecurity Act had been backed by industry committee MEPs. This was a significant opportunity for consumer IoT security to be regulated and resolve the current mess. Sadly, they’ve stopped short and made the code voluntary for all but certain...

Microsoft launches Identity Bounty program

Modern security depends today on collaborative communication of identities and identity data within and across domains. A customer’s digital identity is often the key to accessing services and interacting across the internet. Microsoft has invested heavily in the security and privacy of both our...

Intel® Management Engine 11.x issue - US

Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-21032 Potential Impact: Elevation of Privilege Severity: High Scope of Impact: Industry-wide CVE Identifier: CVE-2018-3627 Summary Description: Intel performed a security review of their Intel® Management Engine ME 11.x firmware, and identified a security vulnerabili...

Intel® Management Engine 11.x issue - Lenovo Support US

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Expanded Privacy Protections Granted to California Residents: The California Consumer Protection Act

In late June, California passed a new consumer privacy law--the California Consumer Privacy Act CCPA. This statute provides protections to California residents; but it will also have wide-ranging effects outside of California as it will apply to organizations that conduct business in California...

Intel® Converged Security Management Engine (Intel® CSME) 11.x issue

Summary: In an effort to continuously improve the robustness of the Intel® Converged Security Management Engine Intel® CSME, Intel has performed a security review of its Intel® CSME with the objective of continuously enhancing firmware resilience. Description: In an effort to continuously improve...

CVE-2018-3608

CVE-2018-3608 affects Trend Micro Maximum Security (Consumer) for 2018, specifically affected versions 12.0.1191 and below. The vulnerability resides in the User-Mode Hooking (UMH) driver and could allow a crafted network packet to cause code to be injected into other processes on a vulnerable sy...

Manipulative Social Media Practices

The Norwegian Consumer Council just published an excellent report on the deceptive practices tech companies use to trick people into giving up their privacy. From the executive summary: Facebook and Google have privacy intrusive defaults, where users who want the privacy friendly option have to g...

Microsoft Windows 10: Consumer Microsoft account user authentication

When enabled, this policy will prevent all applications and services on the device from new consumer Microsoft account authentication via the Windows OnlineID and WebAccountManager APIs. This policy may not affect applications which have already authenticated until the authentication cache expire...

The CMS Allows Health Plans to Host Their Own Enrollment Applications for Improved Consumer Experience

As part of the ongoing implementation of the Affordable Care Act ACA, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services CMS recently began permitting direct enrollment entities qualified health plan issuers and web-brokers to host their own enrollment applications on their websites instead of proxyi...

Microsoft Windows 10: Turn off Microsoft consumer experiences

This policy setting turns off experiences that help consumers make the most of their devices and Microsoft account. If you enable this policy setting, users will no longer see personalized recommendations from Microsoft and notifications about their Microsoft account. If you disable or do not...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in Dojo Toolkit affect IBM Worklight and IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation (CVE-2014-8917)

Summary There are cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in the Dojo Toolkit that is used by IBM Worklight and IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2014-8917 DESCRIPTION: IBM Dojo Toolkit is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of...

Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in OpenSSL affect IBM Worklight (CVE-2014-3509, CVE-2014-5139)

Summary There are multiple vulnerabilities in OpenSSL that is used by the optional FIPS 140-2 data-in-motion feature in IBM Worklight. These issues were disclosed on August 6, 2014 by the OpenSSL Project. Vulnerability Details CVE-ID: CVE-2014-3509 DESCRIPTION: OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial o...

SAP B2B / B2C CRM Local File Inclusion Vulnerability

SAP enterprise application software solution provider. A local file inclusion vulnerability exists in SAP B2B / B2C CRM. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to cause malicious data submitted externally to be entered as a variable in the file inclusion process, which could lead to the...