In a Few Days, Credit Freezes Will Be Fee-Free

Later this month, all of the three major consumer credit bureaus will be required to offer free credit freezes to all Americans and their dependents. Maybe you've been holding off freezing your credit file because your home state currently charges a fee for placing or thawing a credit freeze, or...

You bet your mobile app consumers are willing to pay with their smartphone

For almost 10 years, there has been a debate over mobile app versus mobile web. Which strategy is right for your business and will consumers really ever buy something with a mobile device? Some of these questions have been clearly answered with time, but some aspects of the debate continue. The...

CVE-2018-15363

An Out-of-Bounds Read Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Security 2018 Consumer products could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges on vulnerable installations. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploi...

CVE-2018-10513

A Deserialization of Untrusted Data Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Security 2018 Consumer products could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges on vulnerable installations. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in...

Yahoo Persists in Scanning Emails for In-Depth Ad-Targeting

While the rest of the U.S. tech industry is taking steps to assuage consumer concerns over privacy and data-harvesting, Yahoo is selling off the ability to scan more than 200 million Yahoo Mail inboxes for rich user data that might be used for marketing purposes. Verizon’s Oath unit, which owns...

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Consumer 'Whitelist' Security Bypass Vulnerability

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Consumer is prone to a security bypass vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE =...

BlackIoT Botnet: Can Water Heaters, Washers Bring Down the Power Grid?

We live in a world where washing machines text us when a load of laundry is finished and refrigerators can email grocery lists; but for all the convenience, it turns out that these high-wattage appliances can potentially be marshaled into something very inconvenient indeed: A wide-scale attack on...

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 - Lenovo Support US

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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...

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...