Can VPN really prevent the breach of personal data?

By Owais Sultan Do you use a VPN? It's great for protecting your online privacy but can it protect your data from exposure to malicious elements? This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Can VPN really prevent the breach of personal data?...

Govt.-Backed Contact-Tracing Apps Raise Privacy Hackles

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is echoing lawmaker concerns that California is not taking privacy seriously enough, as state legislators mull launching a COVID-19 exposure-notification app based on Apple and Google’s smartphone technology. The U.S. nonprofit, which is aimed at protecting...

Top Security and Data Privacy Regulations for Financial Services

Regulatory compliance has become an increasingly more important part of the financial services industry in recent years. And it’s a trend that’s likely to continue due to the upsurge in cloud computing, the use of mobile applications, and a shift to IoT devices, all of which are driving exponenti...

Amazon Fixes Alexa Glitch That Could Have Divulged Personal Data

UPDATE Vulnerabilities in Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant platform could allow attackers to access users’ personal information, like home addresses – simply by persuading them to click on a malicious link. Researchers with Check Point found several web application flaws on Amazon Alexa subdomain...

Why & Where You Should Plant Your Flag

Several stories here have highlighted the importance of creating accounts online tied to your various identity, financial and communications services before identity thieves do it for you. This post examines some of the key places where everyone should plant their virtual flags. As KrebsOnSecurit...

New Guide: How Akamai Helps You Protect Privacy Data

Laws and regulations related to personally identifiable information PII are continuously being enacted around the world as data breaches and abuses persist. According to the February 2020 United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, 132 out of 194 countries had legislation put in place to...

Researchers Reveal New Security Flaw Affecting China's DJI Drones

Cybersecurity researchers on Thursday revealed security issues in the Android app developed by Chinese drone-maker Da Jiang Innovations DJI that comes with an auto-update mechanism that bypasses Google Play Store and could be used to install malicious applications and transmit sensitive personal...

keycloak: problem with privacy after user logout

A flaw was found in Keycloak. This flaw allows a malicious user that is currently logged in, to see the personal information of a previously logged out user in the account manager section...

Debotnet - A Tiny Portable Tool For Controlling Windows 10's Many Privacy-Related Settings And Keep Your Personal Data Private

A free and portable tool for controlling Windows 10's many privacy-related settings and keep your personal data private. Your preparation for the Net! The Windows 10 default privacy settings leave a lot to be desired when it comes to protecting you and your private information. Whenever I set up ...

8Belts exposes personal data of 100,000 e-learners globally

By Deeba Ahmed 8Belts database was hosted on a misconfigured Amazon Web Services AWS S3 bucket. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 8Belts exposes personal data of 100,000 e-learners globally...

Joomla Resources Directory (JRD) Portal Suffers Data Breach

Joomla, one of the most popular Open-source content management systems CMS, last week announced a new data breach impacting 2,700 users who have an account with its resources directory JRD website, i.e., resources.joomla.org. The breach exposed affected users' personal information, such as full...

Composr CMS 10.0.30 - Persistent Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Exploit for php platform in category web applications Title: Composr CMS 10.0.30 - Persistent Cross-Site Scripting Author: Manuel Garcia Cardenas Vendor: https://compo.sr/ CVE: N/A ============================================= MGC ALERT 2020-001 - Original release date: February 06, 2020 - Last...

Brazil's Biggest Cosmetic Brand Natura Exposes Personal Details of Its Users

Brazil's biggest cosmetics company Natura accidentally left hundreds of gigabytes of its customers' personal and payment-related information publicly accessible online that could have been accessed by anyone without authentication. SafetyDetective researcher Anurag Sen last month discovered two...

keycloak: problem with privacy after user logout

A flaw was found in Keycloak. This flaw allows a malicious user that is currently logged in, to see the personal information of a previously logged out user in the account manager section...

Data privacy law updates eyed by Singapore

In early 2019, Singapore’s data privacy regulators proposed that the country’s data privacy law could use two new updates—a data breach notification requirement and a right of data portability for the country’s residents. The proposed additions are commonplace in several data privacy laws around...

Hackers Leak Biopharmaceutical Firm's Data Stolen in Ransomware Attack

The Clop ransomware group attacked biopharmaceutical company ExecuPharm and reportedly leaked some of the company’s compromised data on underground forums. ExecuPharm, a Pennsylvania-based subsidiary of the U.S. biopharmaceutical giant Parexel, provides clinical trial management tools for...

Small Businesses Tapping COVID-19 Loans Hit with Data Exposure

A data breach at the agency in charge of providing financial relief to small businesses during the COVID-19 crisis may have exposed sensitive information of 8,000 business that applied, and may delay payouts, a government official said. The Small Business Administration SBA, which oversees the...

44M Digital Wallet Items Exposed in Key Ring Cloud Misconfig

Key Ring, creator of a digital wallet app used by 14 million people across North America, has exposed 44 million IDs, charge cards, loyalty cards, gift cards and membership cards to the open internet, researchers say. The Key Ring app allows users to upload scans and photos of various physical...

GDPR: An impact around the world

A little more than one month after the European Union enacted the General Data Protection Regulation GDPR to extend new data privacy rights to its people, the governor of California signed a separate, sweeping data protection law that borrowed several ideas from GDPR, sparking a torch in a...

SUSE-SU-2020:0721-1 Security update for MozillaThunderbird

This update for MozillaThunderbird fixes the following issues: MozillaThunderbird was updated to 68.6.0 ESR MFSA 2020-10 bsc1166238 - CVE-2020-6805: Fixed a use-after-free when removing data about origins - CVE-2020-6806: Fixed improper protections against state confusion - CVE-2020-6807: Fixed a...