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CVE-2012-0188
IBM SPSS products (Dimensions 5.5 and SPSS Data Collection 5.6, 6.0, 6.0.1) are affected by CVE-2012-0188 due to a buffer overflow in the SetLicenseInfoEx() method of the mraboutb.dll ActiveX control. The vulnerability arises from copying the first parameter (strInstallDir) into a 256-byte global...
Veeam ONE: No Collection Data within Monitor, or Collection Stops Updating.
Challenge Data collection stops within Veeam ONE Monitor, or there is no longer any new data from a certain point. Cause This is due to the following database error involving a lack of space in the primary file group for the database .mdf file. Here is a snippet from the Monitor Logs that you wil...
How To Refine nWorks Data Collection in SCOM
How To Refine nWorks Data Collection in SCOM...
Smart Hacking For Privacy : What TV shows you watch ?
Smart Hacking For Privacy : What TV shows you watch ? White-hat hackers have exposed the privacy shortcomings of smart meter technology. At the Chaos Communication Congress in Germany, 28C3, researchers presented "Smart Hacking For Privacy" After analyzing data collected by a smart meter, these...
Sprint Disables Carrier IQ Software On Its Devices
Sprint has decided to stop using Carrier IQ’s diagnostic software in light of the ongoing controversy about user privacy, according to reports. A Sprint spokesperson told the Website MobileBurn that the carrier has “weighed customer concerns and…disabled use of the tool so that diagnostic...
Carrier IQ Says Bug Can Cause Some SMS to Be Recorded in Coded Form
Carrier IQ, the embattled software company at the center of the controversy over alleged data collection on mobile devices, has released a new document that details the ways in which carriers deploy the software, how it works on devices and what data it is capable of collecting. The company also...
With Mobile Devices, Users Are the Product, Not the Buyer
A lot has been said about the Carrier IQ software, the way that it’s used by carriers and whether it’s capable of intercepting calls, texts and data on users’ handsets. It’s still not clear exactly what’s going on, but one lesson that has emerged from all of this is this: The mobile devices peopl...
Researchers Say Carrier IQ Not Logging Texts or Emails, But Has Some Worrisome Capabilities
Security researchers who have investigated the inner workings of the Carrier IQ software and its capabilities say that the application has some powerful, and potentially worrisome capabilities, but that as it’s currently deployed by carriers it doesn’t have the ability to record SMS messages, pho...
Sen. Franken Demands Answers From Carrier IQ on Mobile Tracking
The fallout from the controversy surrounding the presence of Carrier IQ’s software on millions of mobile devices on several different platforms has now reached Washington. Sen. Al Franken on Thursday sent a letter to the company, demanding answers to a series of questions about the software and i...
W3C Publishes Do Not Track Proposal
The W3C has proposed a standard for implementing the Do Not Track mechanism for both users and site owners, wading into what has become a contentious and fractious debate. The proposed standard, known as the Tracking Preference Expression, is designed to give users the ability to tell sites what...
Google to Allow Users to Opt Out of WiFi Location Mapping System
Google, which has faced a pile of criticism over its privacy policies and practices, especially as they relate to wireless and mobile devices, says it is changing the way that it maps people’s wireless access points in its efforts to provide accurate location information. The company said it is n...
Return argument has an invalid type
Challenge Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager fails to collect data from a Veeam Backup server with the following error: Return argument has an invalid type. The following error can be seen in VeeamBES.log: timestamp Info Reporting data were successfully collected from the server server.local timesta...
Class Action Lawsuit Accuses Microsoft of Illegal Geotagging
UPDATE: A class action lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle, Washington, accuses Microsoft Corp. of collecting geolocation information from photos taken with phones running its Windows Phone 7 operating system, even without the user’s consent. The suit, filed by one Rebecca Cousineau, ...
Privacy and Anonymity on the Modern Internet
The current online atmosphere, in which government-sponsored surveillance, data collection and sale by private companies and politically motivated attacks have become the norm, has spurred a renewed interest in many corners of the Internet in privacy and anonymity. The people behind The Crypto...
Windows Gather IPSwitch iMail User Data Enumeration
This module will collect iMail user data such as the username, domain, full name, e-mail, and the decoded password. Please note if IMAILUSER is specified, the module extracts user data from all the domains found. If IMAILDOMAIN is specified, then it will extract all user data under that particula...
CentOS Update for systemtap CESA-2009:0373 centos5 i386
The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 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 ifdescription scriptxrefname:"URL",...
[SECURITY] Fedora 14 Update: systemtap-1.5-8.fc14
SystemTap is an instrumentation system for systems running Linux 2.6. Developers can write instrumentation to collect data on the operation of the system...
[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: systemtap-1.5-8.fc15
SystemTap is an instrumentation system for systems running Linux 2.6. Developers can write instrumentation to collect data on the operation of the system...
Report: Gmail Not Alone; Yahoo! And Hotmail Users Phished Also
In addition to widely publicized attacks targeting the Gmail accounts of government officials and activists, Trend Micro reported yesterday that Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail are being targeted with similar but separate attacks as well. The report, on Trend Micro’s Malware Blog on Thursday, was the fir...