Software engineer hacked webcams to spy on girls—Here’s how to protect yourself

A 32 year-old software engineer has been sentenced to two years and two months in prison for remotely accessing chat logs, photos, videos, and webcams of his female victims. For nine years, between 2010 to 2019, Robert Davies used malware to infiltrate his targets devices and access their data...

MacOS Bug Could Let Creeps Snoop On You

Microsoft on Monday released details about a bug in macOS that Apple fixed last month – named “powerdir” – that could let attackers hijack apps, install their own nasty apps, use the microphone to eavesdrop or grab screenshots of whatever’s displayed on your screen. The vulnerability allows...

Microsoft Details macOS Bug That Could Let Attackers Gain Access to User Data

Microsoft on Monday disclosed details of a recently patched security vulnerability in Apple's macOS operating system that could be weaponized by a threat actor to expose users' personal information. Tracked as CVE-2021-30970, the flaw concerns a logic issue in the Transparency, Consent and Contro...

X (Formerly Twitter): Discoverability by phone number/email restriction bypass

Summary: By using this vulnerability an attacker can find a twitter account by it's phone number/email even if the user has prohibited this in the privacy options. Description: The vulnerability allows any party without any authentication to obtain a twitter IDwhich is almost equal to getting the...

CISA Releases Guidance on Protecting Organization-Run Social Media Accounts

CISA has released Capacity Enhancement Guide CEG: Social Media Account Protection, which details ways to protect the security of organization-run social media accounts. Malicious cyber actors that successfully compromise social media accounts—including accounts used by federal agencies—could spre...

The Android 12 Privacy Settings You Should Update Now

Google's new mobile operating system is finally rolling out to more phones. Here's what you need to tweak...

Limiting your exposure to location data resellers

Location data is valuable, just ask Huq Industries, who make a living out of selling your location information, then found that the apps they bought it from hadn’t asked the end users permission to have it! Naughty! The organisations they sell it to use it for better marketing, to get a better...

CVE-2021-39328

The WordPress plugin Simple Job Board is affected by CVE-2021-39328: an authenticated stored XSS in versions up to 2.9.4 caused by insufficient escaping of the $job_board_privacy_policy_label in privacy settings (class-simple-job-board-settings-privacy.php). An attacker with administrative access...

The iOS 15 Privacy Settings You Should Change Right Now

Apple’s latest software update has a bunch of new security features. Here's how to put them to use...

CVE-2021-30968

A validation issue related to hard link behavior was addressed with improved sandbox restrictions. This issue is fixed in macOS Big Sur 11.6.2, tvOS 15.2, macOS Monterey 12.1, Security Update 2021-008 Catalina, iOS 15.2 and iPadOS 15.2, watchOS 8.3. A malicious application may be able to bypass...

Apple macOS 权限许可和访问控制问题漏洞

Apple macOS is a suite of specialized operating systems developed for Mac computers by Apple Inc. in the United States. A vulnerability exists in Apple macOS Monterey prior to version 12.1 with privilege permission and access control issues, which stems from a logic issue that could lead to...

Apple macOS 权限许可和访问控制问题漏洞

Apple macOS is a suite of specialized operating systems developed for Mac computers by Apple Inc. in the United States. A vulnerability exists in Apple macOS Monterey prior to version 12.1 with privilege permission and access control issues, which stems from a logic issue that could lead to...

Vulnerabilities fixed in Apple macOS

Apple has fixed vulnerabilities in macOS. The vulnerabilities allow a malicious person possibly unauthenticated and remote able to launch attacks that result in the following categories of damage: Denial-of-Service DoS Bypassing authentication Circumvention of security measure Remote code executi...

How to use iOS 14.5 privacy settings to turn off iPhone apps tracking

By Deeba Ahmed Using iPhone? You can now protect your data and location from being tracked by apps on your device with just a tap, thanks to iOS 14.5. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How to use iOS 14.5 privacy settings to turn off iPhone apps tracking...

Training apps. Have their privacy settings improved in 5 years?

TL;DR Run and bike tracking apps still have a pretty poor approach to password security & default privacy settings From being one of the more secure apps 5 years ago, Strava has now been pushed to the back of this pack as others improved Amazingly, none of these apps support multi factor...

Has Facebook leaked your phone number?

Unless you keep your social media at a pole’s distance, you have probably heard that an absolutely enormous dataset—containing over 500 million phone numbers—has been made public. These phone numbers have been in the hands of some cybercriminals since 2019 due to a vulnerability in Facebook that...

Research claims Google Pixel phones share 20 times more data than iPhones

If youre an Android phone user, now might be a good time to invest in a good pair of ear plugs. Fans of iPhones arent known for being shy when it comes to telling Android users that Apple products are superior, and things may be about to get worse, thanks to a new research paper pdf. Researchers ...

3 tips to top up your privacy

Its Data Privacy Day—the perennial event that many internet users may have never heard of, but have strong feelings and opinions about the very things that birthed it in the first place. Originally created to help businesses learn about why online privacy matters, its reach has since extended to...

Are TikTok’s new settings enough to keep kids safe?

TikTok, the now widely popular social media platform that allows users to create, share, and discover, amateur short clips—usually something akin to music videos—has been enjoying explosive growth since it appeared in 2017. Since then, it hasn’t stopped growing—more so during the current pandemic...

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...