Facebook slapped with $1.43 million fine for violating users' privacy in Spain

Facebook is once again in trouble regarding its users' privacy. The social media giant has recently been heavily fined once again for a series of privacy violations in Spain. Recently, Google also incurred a record-breaking fine of $2.7 billion €2.42 billion by the European antitrust officials fo...

OURPHP personal data at SQL injection vulnerability

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Chongqing Cable Networks Come to the Point app suffers from overstepping access vulnerability

Lai Dot app is an exclusive service for Chongqing Cable broadband subscribers to watch videos, just download and install the client on smart mobile terminals such as cell phones and flat-panel computers and then access Chongqing Cable WIFI network to enjoy the viewing experience. Chongqing Cable ...

Meeting and Hotel Booking Provider's Data Found in Public Amazon S3 Bucket

Leaks of personal and business information from unsecured Amazon S3 buckets are piling up. The latest belongs to Groupize, a Boston-area business that sells tools to manage small group meetings as well as a booking engine that handles hotel room-block reservations. Researchers at Kromtech Securit...

Logic flaws in the Android version of the Shandong government services app

Shandong government service APP is a government information software created by the Shandong Government Office. The software can release the latest information of Shandong government services in time, support personalized subscription, full-text search function, to provide faster service for the...

Shandong government service app for Android has overstepping access vulnerability

Shandong government service APP is a government information software created by the Shandong Government Office. The software can release the latest information of Shandong government services in time, support personalized subscription, full-text search function, to provide faster service for the...

Countdown to GDPR: IT Policy Compliance

From the first page, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation stresses the importance it places on the security and privacy of EU residents’ private information. The 88-page document opens by referring to the protection of this personal data as a “fundamental right” essential for “freedom,...

PaulShop Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

PaulShop is a shopping cart web system. PaulShop firstname, lastname, address, city, state, zipcode, phone, fax, deliveryaddress, deliverycity, deliverystate, deliveryzipcode Parameter-stored cross-site scripting vulnerability. An attacker can insert malicious js code into a page to obtain user...

Alternatives to Government-Mandated Encryption Backdoors

Policy essay: "Encryption Substitutes," by Andrew Keane Woods: In this short essay, I make a few simple assumptions that bear mentioning at the outset. First, I assume that governments have good and legitimate reasons for getting access to personal data. These include things like controlling crim...

Novel Attack Tricks Servers to Cache And Expose Personal Data

LAS VEGAS—Researcher Omer Gil has devised a way to trick a web server into caching pages and exposing personal data. The so-called web caching attack targets sites that use content delivery network CDN services such as Akamai and Cloudflare. These services act as traffic load balancers and revers...

New Ransomware Threatens to Send Your Internet History & Private Pics to All Your Friends

After WannaCry and Petya ransomware outbreaks, a scary but rather creative new strain of ransomware is spreading via bogus apps on the Google Play Store, this time targeting Android mobile users. Dubbed LeakerLocker, the Android ransomware does not encrypt files on victim's device, unlike...

Reliance Jio Customers' Data Allegedly Hacked – Company Denies Breach

Personal details of some 120 Million customers have been allegedly exposed on the Internet in probably the biggest breach of personal data ever in India. Last night, an independent website named Magicapk.com went online, offering Reliance Jio customers to search for their identification data Know...

Countdown to GDPR: Get 20/20 Visibility Into Your IT Assets

Anyone questioning the importance of IT asset visibility in an organization’s security and compliance postures ought to review the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR, which goes into effect next year. With the severe requirements the GDPR places on how a business handles the personal da...

Today’s File Security is So ’80s, Part 3: Dynamic Peer Groups – 3 Examples from Customer Data

In the first two parts of this series, we discussed why permissions management, the traditional approach to file security, no longer works and introduced a new approach to file security that leverages machine learning to build dynamic peer groups based on how users actually access files. In this...

Database of Over 198 Million U.S. Voters Left Exposed On Unsecured Server

Information on more than 198 Million United States citizens, that's over 60% of the US population, was exposed in what's believed to be the largest ever known exposure of voter-related to date. This blunder was caused by Deep Root Analytics DRA, a data analytics firm employed by the US Republican...

5 Questions to Ask Your CISO about the GDPR

The European General Data Protection Regulation GDPR comes into force on May 25, 2018, and it will have a huge impact on the way businesses store and collect personal information belonging to those located in the European Union EU. The regulation applies to all businesses that hold and process da...

WannaCry Highlights Major Security Shortcomings Ahead of GDPR D-Day

For all the panic it caused, WannaCry looks finally to have been contained by organisations round the globe. But this isn’t the time to forget about it and move on. There are valuable lessons to be learned about this attack, why it was so successful and what can be done to prevent it happening...

Top 5 GDPR Myths: Get the Facts

The General Data Protection Regulation GDPR has been garnering much attention since its formal adoption in April 2016. With the effective date of May 25, 2018 fast approaching, some popular myths have emerged surrounding the regulation. In this blog post, we’ll examine and debunk a few of the mos...

China Construction Bank's Android app suffers from weak certificate validation vulnerability

China Construction Bank Android APP is the mobile application product of China Construction Bank. China Construction Bank Android APP suffers from a weak certificate validation vulnerability, as the X509TrustManager validation function does not validate the server-side certificate. An attacker ca...

Brave Status Bar Obfuscation Vulnerability

Brave is a Web browser product from Brave Software, Inc. in the United States. A status bar obfuscation vulnerability exists in Brave version 0.12.4, which may unintentionally redirect to a malicious website. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to redirect users to malicious websites,...