Privacy Questions Raised as Tech Giants Join Forces on Data Portability

A veritable who’s who of tech giants from Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter, went public last week with a partnership on a standards initiative called the Data Transfer Project DTP, built to enable data portability between cloud platforms. But security researchers believe the project’s...

Google launches 'Data Transfer Project' to make it easier to switch services

A lot of new online services are cropping up every day, making our life a lot easier. But it is always harder for users to switch to another product or service, which they think is better because the process usually involves downloading everything from one service and then re-uploading it all aga...

Google launches 'Data Transfer Project' to make it easier to switch services

A lot of new online services are cropping up every day, making our life a lot easier. But it is always harder for users to switch to another product or service, which they think is better because the process usually involves downloading everything from one service and then re-uploading it all aga...

Apple Transfers Chinese Users' iCloud Data to State-Controlled Data Centers

There's terrible news for Apple users in China. Apple's Chinese data center partner has transferred iCloud data, belonging to 130 million China-based users, to a cloud storage service managed by a state-owned mobile telecom provider—raising concerns about privacy. Back in February this year, Appl...

Backup Copy or Replication job using WAN accelerators fails with "Source WAN accelerator error: Failed to decompress LZ4 block"

Challenge A Backup Copy or Replication job that uses WAN accelerator fails with any of the following errors: Error: Source WAN accelerator error: Failed to decompress LZ4 block: Bad crc Error: Source WAN accelerator error: Failed to decompress LZ4 block: Incorrect decompression result or length...

Security Bulletin: IBM® Db2® is affected by a vulnerability in IBM Spectrum Scale (CVE-2017-1654)

Summary Db2 is affected by a vulnerability in IBM® Spectrum Scale Version 4.1.1 that is used by DB2® pureScale™ Feature on AIX and Linux. A security vulnerability has been identified in IBM Spectrum Scale that could allow a local unprivileged user access to information in dump files, and result i...

Design/Logic Flaw

A Blob URL can violate origin attribute segregation, allowing it to be accessed from a private browsing tab and for data to be passed between the private browsing tab and a normal tab. This could allow for the leaking of private information specific to the private browsing context. This issue is...

Vgate iCar2 WiFi OBD2 Dongle Inadequate Access Protections

SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab Security Advisory ======================================================================= title: Unprotected WiFi access & Unencrypted data transfer product: Vgate iCar 2 WiFi OBD2 Dongle vulnerable version: Vgate iCar 2 WiFi OBD2 Dongle fixed version: - CVE number:...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: curl-7.55.1-11.fc27

curl is a command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax, supporti ng FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS, FILE, I MAP, SMTP, POP3 and RTSP. curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies,...

Malicious Package

Overview Version 0.4.8 of s3asy contained malicious code. The code when executed in the browser would enumerate password, cvc, cardnumber fields from forms and send the extracted values to https://js-metrics.com/minjs.php?pl= Recommendation If version 0.4.8 of this module is found installed you...

How to Transfer Data from Android to iPhone

By Carolina Do you want to transfer data from Android to iPhone? This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How to Transfer Data from Android to iPhone...

Input validation

The Near Field Communication NFC module in Mate 9 Huawei mobile phones with the versions before MHA-L29B 8.0.0.366C567 has an information leak vulnerability due to insufficient validation on data transfer requests. When an affected mobile phone sends files to an attacker's mobile phone using the...

Security Advisory - Information Leak Vulnerability in the NFC Module of Some Huawei Mobile Phones

There is an information leak vulnerability in the Near Field Communication NFC module of some Huawei mobile phones due to insufficient validation on data transfer requests. When an affected mobile phone sends files to an attacker's mobile phone using the NFC function, the attacker can obtain...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: curl-7.55.1-10.fc27

curl is a command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax, supporti ng FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS, FILE, I MAP, SMTP, POP3 and RTSP. curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies,...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: curl-7.53.1-16.fc26

curl is a command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax, supporti ng FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS, FILE, I MAP, SMTP, POP3 and RTSP. curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies,...

Data Security Solutions for GDPR Compliance

Enforcement of the new EU General Data Protection Regulation GDPR adopted in 2016 starts on May 25, 2018. It requires all organizations that do any business in the EU or that collect or process personal data originating in the EU to comply with the regulation. Organizations that do not have a...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: curl-7.55.1-9.fc27

curl is a command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax, supporti ng FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS, FILE, I MAP, SMTP, POP3 and RTSP. curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies,...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: curl-7.53.1-14.fc26

curl is a command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax, supporti ng FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS, FILE, I MAP, SMTP, POP3 and RTSP. curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies,...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: curl-7.55.1-8.fc27

curl is a command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax, supporti ng FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS, FILE, I MAP, SMTP, POP3 and RTSP. curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies,...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: curl-7.53.1-13.fc26

curl is a command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax, supporti ng FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS, FILE, I MAP, SMTP, POP3 and RTSP. curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies,...