Anonymous Messaging App Sarahah to Halt Collection of User Data With Next Update

Sarahah, the anonymous messaging app that shot to the top of app stores earlier this summer, says it plans to remove a feature that uploads users’ contacts, including phone numbers and email addresses to the company’s servers, in the next update. The app’s creator, Zain al-Abidin Tawfiq, caught...

Here's How CIA Spies On Its Intelligence Liaison Partners Around the World

WikiLeaks has just published another Vault 7 leak, revealing how the CIA spies on their intelligence partners around the world, including FBI, DHS and the NSA, to covertly collect data from their systems. The CIA offers a biometric collection system—with predefined hardware, operating system, and...

Over 500 Android Apps On Google Play Store Found Spying On 100 Million Users

Over 500 different Android apps that have been downloaded more than 100 million times from the official Google Play Store found to be infected with a malicious ad library that secretly distributes spyware to users and can perform dangerous operations. Since 90 per cent of Android apps is free to...

Open Distributed Threat Intelligence: Yeti

Yeti is a platform meant to organize observables, indicators of compromise, TTPs, and knowledge on threats in a single, unified repository. Yeti will also automatically enrich observables e.g. resolve domains, geolocate IPs so that you don’t have to. Yeti provides an interface for humans shiny...

Complaint Alleges Hotspot Shield VPN Engages in Deceptive Trade Practices

A complaint has been filed with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission alleging that a free VPN service marketed as a provider of secure and anonymous internet access shares user data and redirects traffic to partners, including online advertising companies. The Center for Democracy and Technology CDT...

Hotspot Shield VPN Accused of Spying On Its Users' Web Traffic

"Privacy" is a bit of an Internet buzzword nowadays as the business model of the Internet has now shifted towards data collection. Although Virtual Private Network VPN is one of the best solutions to protect your privacy and data on the Internet, you should be more vigilant while choosing a VPN...

Me on Restaurant Surveillance Technology

I attended the National Restaurant Association exposition in Chicago earlier this year, and looked at all the ways modern restaurant IT is spying on people. But there's also a fundamentally creepy aspect to much of this. One of the prime ways to increase value for your brand is to use the Interne...

Android Spyware Still Collects PII Despite Outcry

UPDATE LAS VEGAS—Shanghai Adups Technology Co. was roundly criticized Wednesday during a Black Hat session for continuing to use spyware called Adups on at least two Android handset makers’ phones. Researchers said the company was still collecting personal identifiable information without user...

Roombas will Spy on You

The company that sells the Roomba autonomous vacuum wants to sell the data about your home that it collects. Some questions: What happens if a Roomba user consents to the data collection and later sells his or her home -- especially furnished -- and now the buyers of the data have a map of a home...

Fuji Electric V-Server

CVSS v3 7.3 ATTENTION: Remotely exploitable Vendor: Fuji Electric Equipment: V-Server Vulnerability: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer AFFECTED PRODUCTS The following versions of V-Server, a data collection and management service, are affected: V-Server Versi...

No Data or Old Data in Reports

Challenge Reports in Veeam ONE Web Client show no data or old data when generated Cause By default Veeam ONE is configured to run collection task at 3:00 am. Any data which comes after the task completion time will not be available in reports. A failed Reporter collection tasks could cause the...

WebSites Found Collecting Data from Online Forms Even Before You Click Submit

'Do I really need to give this website so much about me?' That's exactly what I usually think after filling but before submitting a web form online asking for my personal details to continue. I am sure most of you would either close the whole tab or would edit already typed details or filled up b...

Telegraph delivers better experience with Image Manager

The Telegraph Media Group TMG is a multi-media news publisher and its titles include The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph and The Telegraph website. Today, its site serves more than 380 million pages to over 84 million unique visitors every month across the globe, featuring on average about...

Belati - The Traditional Swiss Army Knife for OSINT

Belati is tool for Collecting Public Data & Public Document from Website and other service for OSINT purpose. This tools is inspired by Foca and Datasploit for OSINT. What Belati can do? WhoisIndonesian TLD Support Banner Grabbing Subdomain Enumeration Service Scanning for all Subdomain Machine W...

Netgear Now Collects Router 'Analytics Data' — Here’s How to Disable It

Is your router collects data on your network? Netgear last week pushed out a firmware update for its wireless router model NightHawk R7000 with a remote data collection feature that collects router's analytics data and sends it to the company's server. For now, the company has rolled out the...

WikiLeaks Reveals Two CIA Malware Frameworks

WikiLeaks released details on what it claims are two frameworks for malware samples dubbed AfterMindnight and Assassin, both allegedly developed by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. The revelations come amid worldwide efforts to squelch variants of the WannaCry ransomware, an offensive hackin...

Advances in Ad Blocking

Ad blockers represent the largest consumer boycott in human history. They're also an arms race between the blockers and the blocker blockers. This article discusses a new ad-blocking technology that represents another advance in this arms race. I don't think it will "put an end to the ad-blocking...

"Backup performance data collection failure"

Challenge Veeam ONE raises the Backup performance data collection failure alarm. Example 1 - Performance data cannot be collected from the repository associated with Veeam Backup & Replication. Example 2 - Performance data cannot be collected from a Hyper-V host managed by Veeam Backup &...

'Events data collection failure' Issue

Challenge Veeam ONE raises Events data collection failure against Veeam Backup & Replication or Hyper-V server. Cause Permissions, UAC configuration, and firewall settings need to be configured. Solution Troubleshooting Checks Verify that the account used to connect to Veeam Backup & Replication ...

Huawei LogCenter Denial of Service Vulnerability

Huawei LogCenter is a set of log management software from Huawei, China. A denial of service vulnerability exists in Huawei LogCenter version V100R001C10, which stems from the program's lack of legitimacy checking of incoming device information data. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to...