WhatsApp Delays Controversial 'Data-Sharing' Privacy Policy Update By 3 Months

WhatsApp said on Friday that it wouldn't enforce its recently announced controversial data sharing policy update until May 15. Originally set to go into effect next month on February 8, the three-month delay comes following "a lot of misinformation" about a revision to its privacy policy that...

CVE-2021-1242

A vulnerability in Cisco Webex Teams could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to manipulate file names within the messaging interface. The vulnerability exists because the affected software mishandles character rendering. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sharing a file withi...

CVE-2021-1242 Cisco Webex Teams Shared File Manipulation Vulnerability

A vulnerability in Cisco Webex Teams could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to manipulate file names within the messaging interface. The vulnerability exists because the affected software mishandles character rendering. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sharing a file withi...

Cisco Jabber and Webex Client Software Shared File Manipulation Vulnerability

A vulnerability in Cisco Jabber and Cisco Webex formerly Teams could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to manipulate file names within the messaging interface. The vulnerability exists because the affected software mishandles character rendering. An attacker could exploit this vulnerabili...

Changes in WhatsApp’s Privacy Policy

If youre a WhatsApp user, pay attention to the changes in the privacy policy that youre being forced to agree with. In 2016, WhatsApp gave users a one-time ability to opt out of having account data turned over to Facebook. Now, an updated privacy policy is changing that. Come next month, users wi...

WhatsApp Has Shared Your Data With Facebook for Years

A pop-up notification has alerted the messaging app's users to a practice that's been in place since 2016...

WeChat Pay has a flawed logic vulnerability

WeChat is a free application launched by Tencent on January 21, 2011 to provide instant messaging services for smart terminals. A logic flaw vulnerability exists in WeChat Pay, which can be exploited by attackers to compromise confidentiality and integrity...

Micro Focus Secure Messaging Gateway Command Injection (CVE-2020-11852)

A command injection vulnerability exists in Micro Focus Secure Messaging Gateway. The vulnerability is due to improper validation of SaveData parameter within managedomainssavedata.json.php...

[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: matrix-synapse-1.24.0-1.fc33

Matrix is an ambitious new ecosystem for open federated Instant Messaging a nd VoIP. Synapse is a reference "homeserver" implementation of Matrix from the core development team at matrix.org, written in Python/Twisted. It is inten ded to showcase the concept of Matrix and let folks see the spec i...

Fedora: Security Advisory for matrix-synapse (FEDORA-2020-eeb66c2ece)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2020 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: matrix-synapse-1.24.0-1.fc32

Matrix is an ambitious new ecosystem for open federated Instant Messaging a nd VoIP. Synapse is a reference "homeserver" implementation of Matrix from the core development team at matrix.org, written in Python/Twisted. It is inten ded to showcase the concept of Matrix and let folks see the spec i...

[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: matrix-synapse-1.23.0-1.fc32

Matrix is an ambitious new ecosystem for open federated Instant Messaging a nd VoIP. Synapse is a reference "homeserver" implementation of Matrix from the core development team at matrix.org, written in Python/Twisted. It is inten ded to showcase the concept of Matrix and let folks see the spec i...

[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: matrix-synapse-1.23.0-1.fc33

Matrix is an ambitious new ecosystem for open federated Instant Messaging a nd VoIP. Synapse is a reference "homeserver" implementation of Matrix from the core development team at matrix.org, written in Python/Twisted. It is inten ded to showcase the concept of Matrix and let folks see the spec i...

Fedora: Security Advisory for matrix-synapse (FEDORA-2020-b90dac7fc4)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2020 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

Symantec Messaging Gateway Security Vulnerability

Symantec Messaging Gateway is a suite of spam filters from Symantec USA. The product features anti-spam, anti-virus, advanced content filtering, and data leakage protection. A security vulnerability exists in Symantec Messaging Gateway prior to version 10.7.4, which can be exploited by attackers ...

Symantec Messaging Gateway Authorization Issues Vulnerability

Symantec Messaging Gateway is a suite of spam filters from Symantec USA. The product features anti-spam, anti-virus, advanced content filtering, and data leakage protection. An authorization issue vulnerability exists in Symantec Messaging Gateway prior to version 10.7.4. The vulnerability arises...

Privilege Escalation and Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities in SMG

Summary Symantec Messaging Gateway SMG is susceptible to privilege escalation and information disclosure vulnerabilities. A malicious, authenticated, privileged user can further elevate their privileges on the system, or obtain a password for a remote SCP backup server that they might not otherwi...

The vulnerability of Adobe Connect’s instant messaging program lies in the lack of protective measures for the website structure, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code in the user’s browser.

The vulnerability of the Adobe Connect instant messaging program relates to the lack of measures taken to protect the website structure. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to execute arbitrary JavaScript code in the user’s browser remotely...

Rana Android Malware Updates Allow WhatsApp, Telegram IM Snooping

Researchers have discovered new samples of a previously discovered Android malware, which is believed to be linked to the APT39 Iranian cyberespionage threat group. The new variant comes with new surveillance capabilities – including the ability to snoop on victims’ Skype, Instagram and WhatsApp...

Iranian RANA Android Malware Also Spies On Instant Messengers

A team of researchers today unveiled previously undisclosed capabilities of an Android spyware implant—developed by a sanctioned Iranian threat actor—that could let attackers spy on private chats from popular instant messaging apps, force Wi-Fi connections, and auto-answer calls from specific...