[SECURITY] Fedora 40 Update: icecat-115.18.0-2.rh2.fc40

GNU IceCat is the GNU version of the Firefox ESR browser. Extensions included to this version of IceCat: LibreJS GNU LibreJS aims to address the JavaScript problem described in the article "The JavaScript Trap" of Richard Stallman. JShelter: Mitigates potential threats from JavaScript, including...

PT-2024-29059 · Apple · Macos Sonoma +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: macOS Sonoma versions prior to 14.7 macOS Sequoia versions prior to 15 Description: A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions. This issue may allow an app to access protected user data. The issue is related to a sandboxed...

Italian Data Protection Watchdog Accuses ChatGPT of Privacy Violations

Italy's data protection authority DPA has notified ChatGPT-maker OpenAI of supposedly violating privacy laws in the region. "The available evidence pointed to the existence of breaches of the provisions contained in the E.U. GDPR General Data Protection Regulation," the Garante per la protezione...

Microsoft illegally collected and retained children's data, says FTC

Microsoft is counting the cost of privacy violations, with $20m in fines related to illegal data collection from childrens Xbox accounts. The Xbox manufacturer has reached a settlement with the Federal Trade Commision FTC, a result which promises to have other console developers looking closely a...

Gmail and Google Calendar Now Support Client-Side Encryption (CSE) to Boost Data Privacy

Google has announced the general availability of client-side encryption CSE for Gmail and Calendar, months after piloting the feature in late 2022. The data privacy controls enable "even more organizations to become arbiters of their own data and the sole party deciding who has access to it,"...

Microsoft publishes new report on holistic insider risk management

The risk landscape for organizations has changed significantly in the past few years. The amount of data captured, copied, and consumed is expected to grow to more than 180 zettabytes through 2025.1 Traditional ways of identifying and mitigating risks don’t always work. Historically, organization...

Microsoft publishes new report on holistic insider risk management

The risk landscape for organizations has changed significantly in the past few years. The amount of data captured, copied, and consumed is expected to grow to more than 180 zettabytes through 2025.1 Traditional ways of identifying and mitigating risks don’t always work. Historically, organization...

Microsoft publishes new report on holistic insider risk management

The risk landscape for organizations has changed significantly in the past few years. The amount of data captured, copied, and consumed is expected to grow to more than 180 zettabytes through 2025.1 Traditional ways of identifying and mitigating risks don’t always work. Historically, organization...

Microsoft publishes new report on holistic insider risk management

The risk landscape for organizations has changed significantly in the past few years. The amount of data captured, copied, and consumed is expected to grow to more than 180 zettabytes through 2025.1 Traditional ways of identifying and mitigating risks don’t always work. Historically, organization...

Facebook Launches 'Privacy Center' to Educate Users on Data Collection and Privacy Options

Meta Platforms, the company formerly known as Facebook, on Friday announced the launch of a centralized Privacy Center that aims to "educate people" about its approach with regards to how it collects and processes personal information across its family of social media apps. "Privacy Center provid...

The business case to expand ISO 27001 certification with privacy controls

Third-party inspections of organizational privacy risk remain a novel trend. Only five years ago, the most basic of common controls frameworks for this risk taxonomy did not even exist. Today, privacy has captured the collective global consciousness. Every segment, from regulators and industry...

CVE-2021-30856

This issue was addressed by adding a new Remote Login option for opting into Full Disk Access for Secure Shell sessions. This issue is fixed in macOS Big Sur 11.3. A malicious unsandboxed app on a system with Remote Login enabled may bypass Privacy preferences...

Wi-Fi Devices as Physical Object Sensors

The new 802.11bf standard will turn Wi-Fi devices into object sensors: In three years or so, the Wi-Fi specification is scheduled to get an upgrade that will turn wireless devices into sensors capable of gathering data about the people and objects bathed in their signals. "When 802.11bf will be...

TikTok Takes Teen Accounts Private

TikTok has decided to boost privacy measures for its underage users, the popular video-sharing social-media company announced. TikTok’s popularity is being driven by teens — the company reported in 2019 about 60 percent of its 26.5 monthly users are between the ages of 16 and 24, and these latest...

CISO with a small security team? Learn from your peers' experience with this free e-book

CISOs with small security teams hold an intensive juggling act. They're responsible for sustaining the company's security resilience, ensuring compliance is adhered to and implementing privacy controls. In between these tasks, they need to follow up on board updates, lead cross-team communication...

New Privacy Features Added to the Upcoming Apple iOS 14 and macOS Big Sur

Unprecedented times call for unprecedented measures. No, we're not talking about 'coronavirus,' the current global pandemic because of which Apple—for the very first time in history—organized its Worldwide Developer Conference WWDC virtually. Here we're talking about a world in which we are all...

How to Set Your Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to Control Who Sees What

Pick who sees your tweets, posts, and stories—and choose what you want to see, too...

Potential Observable Timing Discrepancy in Wagtail

Impact A potential timing attack exists on pages or documents that have been protected with a shared password through Wagtail's "Privacy" controls. This password check is performed through a character-by-character string comparison, and so an attacker who is able to measure the time taken by this...

FreeBSD : Wagtail -- potential timing attack vulnerability (d5fead4f-8efa-11ea-a5c8-08002728f74c)

Wagtail release notes : CVE-2020-11037: Potential timing attack on password-protected private pages This release addresses a potential timing attack on pages or documents that have been protected with a shared password through Wagtail's 'Privacy' controls. This password check is performed through...

Wagtail -- potential timing attack vulnerability

Wagtail release notes: CVE-2020-11037: Potential timing attack on password-protected private pages This release addresses a potential timing attack on pages or documents that have been protected with a shared password through Wagtail's "Privacy" controls. This password check is performed through ...