Threat Source newsletter (Jan. 30, 2020)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. Be sure to pay close attention Tuesday for some changes we have coming to Snort.org. We’ll spare you the details for now, but please bea...

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...

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...

Space Force's Rough Launch, Oversight for Facebook, and More News

Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less...

Ring Doorbell App for Android Caught Sharing User Data with Facebook, Data-Miners

UPDATE Amazon’s Ring Doorbell app for Android is a nexus for data-harvesting, according to an investigation by the Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF. Privacy advocates allege Ring goes so far as to silently deliver updates on Ring customer usage to Facebook, even if the Ring owner doesn’t have a...

Rockstar Games: Image Injection vulnerability in www.rockstargames.com/IV/screens/1280x720Image.html

In this report, the researcher demonstrated a method to chain together separate vulnerabilities that, under certain conditions, could cause a user's Facebook Oauth tokens to leak via the Referer header. The specific vulnerability that was addressed in this report was the image injection component...

Facebook WhatsApp Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Facebook WhatsApp is a suite of mobile applications from the American company Facebook that utilize the web to deliver text messages. The application uses the contact information in a smartphone to find contacts using the program to send texts, pictures, and more. A cross-site scripting...

CVE-2011-3614

An Access Control vulnerability exists in the Facebook, Twitter, and Embedded plugins in Vanilla Forums before 2.0.17.9...

Improper access control

An Access Control vulnerability exists in the Facebook, Twitter, and Embedded plugins in Vanilla Forums before 2.0.17.9...

CVE-2011-3614

An Access Control vulnerability exists in the Facebook, Twitter, and Embedded plugins in Vanilla Forums before 2.0.17.9...

CVE-2011-3614

CVE-2011-3614 affects Vanilla Forums (Facebook, Twitter, and Embedded plugins) prior to version 2.0.17.9. The issue is an Access Control vulnerability that could impact confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Remediation: upgrade to Vanilla Forums 2.0.17.9 or newer; apply any vendor-supplie...

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...

A Facebook Bug Exposed Anonymous Admins of Pages

A bad code update allowed anyone to easily reveal which accounts posted to Facebook Pages—including celebrities and politicians—for several hours...

Facebook Says Encrypting Messenger by Default Will Take Years

Mark Zuckerberg promised default end-to-end encryption throughout Facebook's platforms. Nearly a year later, Messenger's not even close...

Facebook Cracks Down on Deepfake Videos

Facebook is banning deepfake videos, which stem from a technique of human-image synthesis based on artificial intelligence AI to create fake content. Over the past year, security experts and lawmakers have voiced concerns about malicious deepfake applications, particularly as a vessel for...

Facebook Revamps Its Privacy Checkup Feature in Time for CES

Forget Portal. This year, Facebook is marketing itself as a privacy crusader...

Subrion CMS 4.0.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (Add Admin) Vulnerability

Exploit for php platform in category web applications Exploit Title: Subrion CMS 4.0.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery Add Admin Exploit Author: Ismail Tasdelen Vendor Homepage: https://intelliants.com/ Software Link : https://github.com/intelliants/subrion/releases/tag/v4.0.5 Software : Subrion CMS...

WooCommerce Conversion Tracking < 2.0.5 - CSRF to XSS

The settings page of the plugin is lacking CSRF checks as well as input sanitisation, leading to stored XSS. ' /...

Cambridge Analytica scandal: Facebook hit with $1.6 million fine

By Waqas Brazilian Government is not happy with Facebook over the Cambridge Analytica breach. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Cambridge Analytica scandal: Facebook hit with $1.6 million fine...

Facebook Security Debacles: 2019 Year in Review

Facebook Security: 2019 Year in Review Facebook spent the past year both trying to deal with the consequences of the Cambridge Analytica scandal that rocked its public relations in 2018, as well as other issues afflicting the social media platform – from data security challenges to political...