Hacker Discloses New Unpatched Windows Zero-Day Exploit On Twitter

A security researcher with Twitter alias SandboxEscaper today released proof-of-concept PoC exploit for a new zero-day vulnerability affecting Microsoft's Windows operating system. SandboxEscaper is the same researcher who previously publicly dropped exploits for two Windows zero-day...

Threatpost Poll: Do You Hate Facebook?

Facebook is under fire again after a bombshell report went live, claiming it has had broad data-sharing arrangements with Amazon, Apple, Netflix and others for years. We’re wondering if this changes how you use Facebook in your everyday life. An exhaustive investigation in the New York Times on...

Facebook Fights Back on Secret Data-Sharing Partnerships

UPDATE Facebook is hitting back after a new report on Tuesday said that the company struck broad data-sharing partnerships with more than 150 companies, including Apple, Amazon and Netflix, exempting them from its normal data privacy terms and conditions. An exhaustive investigation in the New Yo...

CVE-2018-6079

Inappropriate sharing of TEXTURE2DARRAY/TEXTURE3D data between tabs in WebGL in Google Chrome prior to 65.0.3325.146 allowed a remote attacker to leak cross-origin data via a crafted HTML page...

Microsoft Data Sharing - Local Privilege Escalation Exploit

Exploit for windows platform in category local exploits Microsoft Data Sharing - Local Privilege Escalation Exploit Bug description: RpcDSSMoveFromSharedFilehandle,L"token",L"c:\blah1\pci.sys"; This function exposed over alpc, has a arbitrary delete vuln. Hitting the timing was pretty annoying...

Windows ‘Deletebug’ Zero-Day Allows Privilege Escalation, Destruction

A proof-of-concept exploit for a Windows zero-day that works on fully patched Windows 10 machines has been released by a security researcher. It allows an attacker to delete any kind of file on a victim machine, including system data. The flaw no CVE has been assigned since it was just exposed on...

Hacker Discloses New Windows Zero-Day Exploit On Twitter

A security researcher with Twitter alias SandboxEscaper—who two months ago publicly dropped a zero-day exploit for Microsoft Windows Task Scheduler—has yesterday released another proof-of-concept exploit for a new Windows zero-day vulnerability. SandboxEscaper posted a link to a Github page hosti...

Hacker Discloses New Windows Zero-Day Exploit On Twitter

A security researcher with Twitter alias SandboxEscaper—who two months ago publicly dropped a zero-day exploit for Microsoft Windows Task Scheduler—has yesterday released another proof-of-concept exploit for a new Windows zero-day vulnerability. SandboxEscaper posted a link to a Github page hosti...

Microsoft Data Sharing - Local Privilege Escalation (PoC)

Microsoft Data Sharing - Local Privilege Escalation PoC Bug description: RpcDSSMoveFromSharedFilehandle,L"token",L"c:\blah1\pci.sys"; This function exposed over alpc, has a arbitrary delete vuln. Hitting the timing was pretty annoying. But my PoC will keep rerunning until...

Microsoft Data Sharing - Local Privilege Escalation (PoC)

Bug description: RpcDSSMoveFromSharedFilehandle,L"token",L"c:\blah1\pci.sys"; This function exposed over alpc, has a arbitrary delete vuln. Hitting the timing was pretty annoying. But my PoC will keep rerunning until c:\windows\system32\drivers\pci.sys is deleted. I believe it's impossible to hit...

Recent App Issues Reveal Facebook’s Struggles to Temper Data Privacy Woes

Facebook was hit with a double privacy punch regarding data privacy on Wednesday. First, Facebook acknowledged in a public post that one of the apps on its platform, myPersonality, inappropriately shared 4 million users’ data with researchers. Also on Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal reported...

Facebook Admits Sharing Users' Data With 61 Tech Companies

Facebook has admitted that the company gave dozens of tech companies and app developers special access to its users' data after publicly saying it had restricted outside companies to access such data back in 2015. It's an unusual clear view of how the largest social networking site manages your...

Facebook Admits Sharing Users' Data With 61 Tech Companies

Facebook has admitted that the company gave dozens of tech companies and app developers special access to its users' data after publicly saying it had restricted outside companies to access such data back in 2015. It's an unusual clear view of how the largest social networking site manages your...

Microsoft Windows: Turn off handwriting personalization data sharing

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winhandwritingdatasharing.nasl 11337 2018-09-11 14:23:53Z emoss $ Check value for Turn off handwriting personalization data sharing Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Tesla sues ex-employee for hacking & sharing GBs of data with 3rd parties

By Carolina The electric car manufacturing giant, Tesla, has filed a lawsuit This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Tesla sues ex-employee for hacking & sharing GBs of data with 3rd parties...

AT&T, Sprint, Verizon to Stop Sharing Customer Location Data With Third Parties

In the wake of a scandal involving third-party companies leaking or selling precise, real-time location data on virtually all Americans who own a mobile phone, the four major wireless carriers have responded to requests from a U.S. senator for more details about how the carriers are managing acce...

Facebook Software Bug Made Some Private Posts Public: 14 Million Affected

A Facebook software bug in May switched the “suggested audience” for posts to “public” for 14 millions of users. The glitch meant Facebook users who though they were sharing content with just friends or small groups actually made their posts available to the general public. The incident is the...

Facebook bug changed 14 million users' default privacy settings to public

Facebook admits as many as 14 millions of its users who thought they're sharing content privately with only friends may have inadvertently shared their posts with everyone because of a software bug. Facebook said in front of Congress in March over the Cambridge Analytica scandal that "every piece...

Facebook Defends Against Device-Integrated APIs Policy, But Concerns Remain

Facebook is hitting back against a New York Times article alleging that it struck deals enabling phone-makers to access users’ personal information. The incident is yet another blow to the social media giant as it continues to deal with questions and outrage over its data privacy policies. The...

Facebook Accused of Giving Over 60 Device-Makers Deep Access to User Data

After being embroiled into controversies over its data sharing practices, it turns out that Facebook had granted inappropriate access to its users' data to more than 60 device makers, including Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Blackberry, and Samsung. According to a lengthy report published by The New...