Gay dating app Grindr shared user HIV & location data with third-parties

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The 600+ Companies PayPal Shares Your Data With

One of the effects of GDPR -- the new EU General Data Protection Regulation -- is that we're all going to be learning a lot more about who collects our data and what they do with it. Consider PayPal, that just released a list of over 600 companies they share customer data with. Here's a good...

Financial Cyber Threat Sharing Group Phished

The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center FS-ISAC, an industry forum for sharing data about critical cybersecurity threats facing the banking and finance industries, said today that a successful phishing attack on one of its employees was used to launch additional phishing...

Bugcrowd Integration Now Available in Qualys Web Application Scanning

The new version of Qualys Web Application Scanning, WAS 5.7, adds an integration with Bugcrowd for centralized viewing and triaging of both WAS automated vulnerability detections and vulnerabilities submitted by Bugcrowd's approved security researchers. Qualys WAS customers running a bug bounty...

October 2, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “October” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! October 2, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: GDPR is a Year 2000-style...

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...

Magic Wormhole - Get Things From One Computer To Another, Safely

This package provides a library and a command-line tool named wormhole, which makes it possible to get arbitrary-sized files and directories or short pieces of text from one computer to another. The two endpoints are identified by using identical "wormhole codes": in general, the sending machine...

New EU Privacy Laws Will Complicate B2B Data Sharing

NEW YORK – United States companies doing business abroad are grumbling over new European privacy laws set to take effect in less than one year. The EU privacy rules are far more stringent than U.S. laws, and are meant to give consumers the upper hand when it comes to controlling what data is stor...

Project Sonar - Mo' Data, Mo' Research

Since its inception, Rapid7's Project Sonar has aimed to share the data and knowledge we've gained from our Internet scanning and collection activities with the larger information security community. Over the years this has resulted in vulnerability disclosures, research papers, conference...

Lack of Communication Achilles' Heel for Ransomware Fighters

BOSTON—Collaboration is important when it comes to fighting ransomware, but the lack of communication around the issue remains a serious impediment, law enforcement says. “If we don’t know about it and no one keeps track of it, then no one cares,” Frank McLaughlin, a detective with the Boston...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: deluge-1.3.14-1.fc25

Deluge is a new BitTorrent client, created using Python and GTK+. It is intended to bring a native, full-featured client to Linux GTK+ desktop environments such as GNOME and XFCE. It supports features such as DHT Distributed Hash Tables, PEX =EF=BF=BD=EF=BF=BDTorrent-compatible Peer E xchange, an...

Malware Information Sharing Platform: MISP

Malware Information Sharing Platform MISP, Malware Information Sharing Platform and Threat Sharing, is an open source software solution for collecting, storing, distributing and sharing cyber security indicators and threat about cyber security incidents analysis and malware analysis. MISP is...

White House Approves New Rules for Sharing of Raw Intelligence Data

President Obama last week approved a change in the way the National Security Agency shares raw signals intelligence data with the rest of the U.S. intelligence community, a shift that privacy experts worry will erode the civil liberties of Americans. An unclassified document released by the Offic...

Malware Analysis Windows VM: Malboxes

Malware Analysis Windows VM Vagrant box builder and config generator for malware analysis. The malware battle online is far from being over. Several thousands of new malware binaries are collected by antivirus companies every day. Most organizations don’t have the expertise on staff to know if th...

Facebook Threat Exchange

Facebook Threat Exchange Most threat intelligence solutions suffer because the data is too hard to standardize and verify. Facebook created the ThreatExchange platform so that participating organizations can share threat data using a convenient, structured, and easy-to-use API that provides priva...

New Privacy Rules require ISPs to must Ask you before Sharing your Sensitive Data

Good News for privacy concerned people! Now, your online data will not be marketed for business; at least by your Internet Service Providers ISPs. Yes, it's time for your ISPs to ask your permission in order to share your sensitive data for marketing or advertisement purposes, the FCC rules. On...

Germany Orders Facebook to Stop Collecting Data on WhatsApp Users

A German privacy regulator issued an order this week prohibiting Facebook from collecting user data on German WhatsApp users, calling the company’s actions misleading and in violation of the nation’s data protection law. The move comes a few weeks after a recent WhatsApp policy change that said t...

Privacy Groups File FTC Complaint over WhatsApp Data Sharing with Facebook

Alleging a trail of broken promises, two privacy-focused advocacy groups yesterday filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission against a recent WhatsApp privacy policy change that states it will begin sharing user data with parent company Facebook. The Electronic Privacy Information Cente...

WhatsApp to Share Your Data with Facebook — You have 30 Days to Stop It

Nothing comes for Free, as "Free" is just a relative term used by companies to develop a strong user base and then use it for their own benefits. The same has been done by the secure messaging app WhatsApp, which has now made it crystal clear that the popular messaging service will begin sharing...

WhatsApp to Share your Personal Data With Facebook

Recently the Facebook-owned messaging app dropped its $1 annual subscription fee to make WhatsApp Free for Lifetime. Now, WhatsApp has plans to introduce a new feature that would allow its users to integrate their Facebook accounts with the most widely used messaging app. So far, the social media...