Privacy Experts Skeptical of Proposed Data Protection Agency

A new federal bureaucracy, the Data Protection Agency DPA, has been proposed to completely revamp how the U.S. government regulates data collection and misuse by big tech companies. However, while privacy experts call the agency a “good first step,” they remain skeptical about how effective it...

[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: sysstat-12.3.1-1.fc31

The sysstat package contains the sar, sadf, mpstat, iostat, tapestat, pidstat, cifsiostat and sa tools for Linux. The sar command collects and reports system activity information. The information collected by sar can be saved in a file in a binary format for future inspection. The statistics...

Facebook to Pay $550M to Settle Class Action Case Over Facial Recognition

Facebook has agreed to pay $550 million to Illinois users to settle a class action lawsuit filed over the use of its face-tagging technology to collect facial-recognition data on its social media platform. The company unveiled the settlement on a quarterly financial call Wednesday, in which it...

How to Clear Data Facebook Collects About You from Other Sites and Apps

Facebook is one of the world's biggest advertising platforms, and that's because it knows a lot about you, me, and everyone. Facebook uses many tools to track people across the Internet, whether they have an account with the social networking site or not, and most of them rely on the online...

Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure 4.0 Update 1.1 (4.0.1-48)

This update provides fixes for the Backup Gateway and compute services. Vulnerability id: VSTOR-39857 A stability fix for Backup Gateway. Vulnerability id: VSTOR-38770 Fix incorrect MTU on a flat network when different MTUs set on interfaces in the same network. Vulnerability id: VSTOR-40118 Fix...

Scraping the Web Is a Powerful Tool. Clearview AI Abused It

The facial recognition startup claims it collected billions of photos from sites like Facebook and Twitter. What does the practice mean for the open web?...

The State of Vulnerabilities in 2019

As a web application firewall provider, part of our job at Imperva is to continually monitor for new security vulnerabilities. To do this, we use internal software that collects information from various data sources such as vulnerability databases, newsletters, forums, social media and more,...

Aaia - AWS Identity And Access Management Visualizer And Anomaly Finder

Aaia pronounced as shown here helps in visualizing AWS IAM and Organizations in a graph format with help of Neo4j. This helps in identifying the outliers easily. Since it is based on neo4j , one can query the graph using cypher queries to find the anomalies. Aaia also supports modules to...

CVE-2020-7058

datainput.php in Cacti 1.2.8 allows remote code execution via a crafted Input String to Data Collection - Data Input Methods - Unix - Ping Host. NOTE: the vendor has stated "This is a false alarm...

Design/Logic Flaw

datainput.php in Cacti 1.2.8 allows remote code execution via a crafted Input String to Data Collection - Data Input Methods - Unix - Ping Host. NOTE: the vendor has stated "This is a false alarm...

CVE-2020-7058

datainput.php in Cacti 1.2.8 allows remote code execution via a crafted Input String to Data Collection - Data Input Methods - Unix - Ping Host. NOTE: the vendor has stated "This is a false alarm...

CVE-2020-7058

CVE-2020-7058 affects Cacti 1.2.8; data_input.php can lead to remote code execution via a crafted Input String to Data Collection → Data Input Methods → Unix → Ping Host. Multiple connected sources note the vendor’s statement that this is a false alarm, with no public exploit details or patch inf...

CVE-2020-7058

datainput.php in Cacti 1.2.8 allows remote code execution via a crafted Input String to Data Collection - Data Input Methods - Unix - Ping Host. NOTE: the vendor has stated "This is a false alarm...

All the Ways Facebook Tracks You—and How to Limit It

If you have a Facebook account—and even if you don't—the company is going to collect data about you. But you can at least control how it gets used...

openSUSE Security Update : opera (openSUSE-2019-2107)

This update for opera fixes the following issues : Opera was updated to version 63.0.3368.66 : - CHR-7525 Update chromium on desktop-stable-76-3368 to 76.0.3809.132 - DNA-74031 Download indicator doesnt match progress - DNA-77042 Something went wrong message in crypto wallet in private window -...

Snatch Team Steals Data and Hammers Orgs with Ransomware

A fresh ransomware variant known as “Snatch” has been spotted in campaigns, forcing Windows machines to reboot into Safe Mode before beginning the encryption process. It’s one of multiple components of a malware constellation being used in carefully orchestrated attacks that also feature rampant...

EFF Talks the Corporate Surveillance of Consumers

You can’t protect your privacy if you don’t know how it’s being violated. That’s the essence of a report by the Electronic Frontier Foundation that shines a bright disinfecting light on how corporations are collecting data on consumers. Think Facebook-like data collection on steroids and you begi...

Avast and AVG Browser Extensions Spying On Chrome and Firefox Users

If your Firefox or Chrome browser has any of the below-listed four extensions offered by Avast and its subsidiary AVG installed, you should disable or remove them as soon as possible. Avast Online Security AVG Online Security Avast SafePrice AVG SafePrice Why? Because these four widely installed...

Avast and AVG Browser Extensions Spying On Chrome and Firefox Users

If your Firefox or Chrome browser has any of the below-listed four extensions offered by Avast and its subsidiary AVG installed, you should disable or remove them as soon as possible. Avast Online Security AVG Online Security Avast SafePrice AVG SafePrice Why? Because these four widely installed...

Federal Data Privacy Bill Takes Aim at Tech Giants

A new digital privacy bill has been introduced to the the Senate, which would give the Federal Trade Commission FTC more teeth when it comes to providing oversight on tech companies’ use of consumer data. Sen. Maria Cantwell D-Wash., ranking member on the Senate Commerce Committee, led the...