[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: kactivities-4.10.4-1.fc18

API for using and interacting with Activities as a consumer, application adding information to them or as an activity manager...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: kactivities-4.10.4-1.fc19

API for using and interacting with Activities as a consumer, application adding information to them or as an activity manager...

Java: A Fix it for when you cannot let go

There is much to say about the use of Java in both consumer and enterprise environments. Like any other platforms, it has both devoted supporters and fervent critics. But for most, Java is a requirement, a means to an end. In the past few years, Java as a platform has been the target of numerous...

Donald Trump is Suing a Brooklyn man for Cyber squatting

J. Taikwok Yung is 33, lives with his mom in Brooklyn, and bought domain names that criticize billionaire Donald Trump and cybersquatting him. Cybersquatting is a legitimate crime that's defined by the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act. "Cybersquatting also known as domain squatting,...

California Considers Pushing Data Disclosure Envelope Again

California, which set the standard for data breach notifications nationwide, is again seeking to set a precedent by becoming the first state in the nation to require companies upon request disclose to California consumers the data they’ve collected and to whom it was shared during the past year...

Donald Trump is Suing a Brooklyn man for Cyber squatting

J. Taikwok Yung is 33, lives with his mom in Brooklyn, and bought domain names that criticize billionaire Donald Trump and cybersquatting him. Cybersquatting is a legitimate crime that’s defined by the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act. "Cybersquatting also known as domain squatting,...

Twitter OAuth API Keys Leaked

The OAuth keys and secrets that official Twitter applications use to access users’ Twitter accounts have been leaked in a post to Github this morning. The consumer keys and secrets, which function similarly to a username and password, were posted for Twitter for iPhone, Android, iPad, Mac, Window...

Katello: lack of authorization in proxies_controller.rb

proxiescontroller.rb in Katello in Red Hat CloudForms before 1.1 does not properly check permissions, which allows remote authenticated users to read consumer certificates or change arbitrary users' settings via unspecified vectors related to the "consumer UUID" of a system...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: Subscription Asset Manager 1.2 update

Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2, which fixes several security issues, multiple bugs, and adds various enhancements, is now available. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which gi...

California Attorney General Fighting for Mobile Privacy Rights

UPDATE – In an attempt to reign in the tendency of indifference toward consumer privacy among mobile application developers, California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today made public a list of guidelines regulating the ways in which mobile application developers and technology companies hand...

Design/Logic Flaw

proxiescontroller.rb in Katello in Red Hat CloudForms before 1.1 does not properly check permissions, which allows remote authenticated users to read consumer certificates or change arbitrary users' settings via unspecified vectors related to the "consumer UUID" of a system...

CVE-2012-5603

CVE-2012-5603 affects Red Hat CloudForms (Katello component) prior to CloudForms 1.1. The issue is an insufficient permission check in proxies_controller.rb, enabling an authenticated remote attacker to read consumer certificates or alter other users’ settings by abusing the target system UUID. T...

CVE-2012-5603

proxiescontroller.rb in Katello in Red Hat CloudForms before 1.1 does not properly check permissions, which allows remote authenticated users to read consumer certificates or change arbitrary users' settings via unspecified vectors related to the "consumer UUID" of a system...

FTC Demands Companies Disclose How They Gather, Use Consumer Data

The Federal Trade Commission Tuesday demanded nine data brokerage companies turn over details on how they collect and use consumer information as part of an inquiry into the industry’s business practices. The companies include Acxiom of Little Rock, Ark.; Corelogic of Irvine, Calif.; Datalogix of...

Katello: lack of authorization in proxies_controller.rb

proxiescontroller.rb in Katello in Red Hat CloudForms before 1.1 does not properly check permissions, which allows remote authenticated users to read consumer certificates or change arbitrary users' settings via unspecified vectors related to the "consumer UUID" of a system...

Hardcoded Password Enables Remote Attacks on Samsung Printers

Password woes apparently aren’t limited to endpoints. US-CERT issued an advisory Tuesday warning users of Samsung printers, including some Dell printers manufactured by Samsung, that a hardcoded password could enable remote code execution. “Samsung printers contain a hardcoded SNMP full read-writ...

California Attorney General Puts Mobile App Developers on Notice

California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced a crackdown on mobile application developers and companies that haven’t posted privacy policies, at least where users can easily find them. The attorney general is giving recipients 30 days “to conspicuously post a privacy policy within...

Judge Rules Against Consumers' Claims in PlayStation Hack Lawsuit

A Southern California judge has rejected several key claims in a class-action lawsuit filed in response to Sony’s handling last year of a data breach that left millions of users at risk. In a ruling released by Courthousenews.com, U.S. District Court Judge Anthony Battaglia ruled users did not ha...

An Interview With Eugene Kaspersky

Eugene Kaspersky has had an interesting, varied life, with more than his share of adventures, successes and challenges. He’s seen and done a lot, but when he learned that he was going to receive an honorary degree from Plymouth University in England he was taken aback. Excited, yes, and humbled,...

Verizon Settles with FCC for $1.25 Million Over Tethering Block

In an unprecedented move, the Federal Communications Commission ended a 10-month investigation of Verizon Wireless with a $1.25 million settlement for restricting Android customer access to “tethering” software used to relay Internet signals to other devices. The federal probe was launched after...