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)

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...

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...

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...

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...

PROTECTING YOUR PRIVACY – Part 2: How to Maximize Your Privacy on Social Media and in Your Browser

In the last post we highlighted the privacy risks associated with using popular social networking sites and browsers. You might not appreciate just how much of your personal data is being accessed by advertisers and other third parties via your social media accounts and internet browsing...

Tens of Thousands of Malicious Apps Using Facebook APIs

At least 25,936 malicious apps are currently using one of Facebook’s APIs, such as a login API or messaging API. These allow apps to access a range of information from Facebook profiles, like name, location and email address. Trustlook discovered the malicious apps using a formula, which created ...

Calls For Regulation Build After Facebook Privacy Fallout

As Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared before Congress this week, politicians stressed the need for regulation to secure end users’ data privacy on social media platforms. The series of hearings on Tuesday and Wednesday gave members of Congress an opportunity to question Facebook about multiple...

How to know if your Facebook data was shared with Cambridge Analytica?

By Waqas Did Cambridge Analytica had access to your Facebook data? This new This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How to know if your Facebook data was shared with Cambridge Analytica?...

Privacy Advocates Blast Facebook After Data Scraping Scandal

Privacy advocates are up in arms after CEO Mark Zuckerberg said this week a Facebook reverse search tool may have compromised the data of the social network’s two billion users. The feature in question was designed to enable users to enter a Facebook user’s phone numbers or email addresses into t...

Microsoft Office 365 Gets Built-in Ransomware Protection and Enhanced Security Features

Ransomware has been around for a few years, but it has become an albatross around everyone's neck, targeting big businesses, hospitals, financial institutions and individuals worldwide and extorting millions of dollars. Last year, we saw some major ransomware outbreaks, including WannaCry and...