WhatsApp Hit with €5.5 Million Fine for Violating Data Protection Laws

The Irish Data Protection Commission DPC on Thursday imposed fresh fines of €5.5 million against Meta's WhatsApp for violating data protection laws when processing users' personal information. At the heart of the ruling is an update to the messaging platform's Terms of Service that was imposed in...

CVE-2022-39193

Summary: CVE-2022-39193 affects the MediaWiki CheckUser extension (through 1.39.x). The vulnerability concerns disclosure of sensitivity about editors: various components of CheckUser can expose information about the performer of edits and logged actions, information that should be viewable only ...

Drupal Releases Security Advisories to Address Multiple Vulnerabilities

Drupal has released security advisories to address vulnerabilities affecting multiple products. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to access sensitive information. CISA encourages users and administrators to review Drupal’s security advisories SA-CORE-2023-001, SA-CONTRIB-2023-002,...

Cisco Releases Security Advisory for Unified CM and Unified CM SME

Cisco released a security advisory for a vulnerability affecting Cisco Unified Communications Manager Unified CM and Cisco Unified Communications Manager Session Management Edition Unified CM SME. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service condition. For updat...

Mozilla Releases Security Updates for Firefox

Mozilla has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in Firefox ESR and Firefox. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review Mozilla’s security advisories for Firefox ESR 102.7 and...

LinkedIn: Anyone can view the results of linkedin skill test -if failed to earn a badge or if the badge earned is kept private: both cases results can be viewed

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CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. This type of vulnerability is a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and poses a significant risk to the federal enterprise. Note: To view the newly added...

"Untraceable" surveillance firm sued for scraping Facebook and Instagram data

Days after Meta achieved victory after suing the NSO Group for Computer Fraud and Abuse Act charges, Meta filed a lawsuit against surveillance company Voyager Labs for violations of its Terms and Policies and California law. According to court documents, Voyager Labs created 38,000 fake accounts ...

A Secure User Authentication Method – Planning is More Important than Ever

When considering authentication providers, many organizations consider the ease of configuration, ubiquity of usage, and technical stability. Organizations cannot always be judged on those metrics alone. There is an increasing need to evaluate company ownership, policies and the stability, or...

A Secure User Authentication Method – Planning is More Important than Ever

When considering authentication providers, many organizations consider the ease of configuration, ubiquity of usage, and technical stability. Organizations cannot always be judged on those metrics alone. There is an increasing need to evaluate company ownership, policies and the stability, or...

All the Data Apple Collects About You—and How to Limit It

Cupertino puts privacy first in a lot of its products. But the company still gathers a bunch of your information...

5 B2B Data Privacy Startups to Check Out in 2023

By Owais Sultan B2B data privacy startups have become increasingly important in recent years as businesses seek to protect the sensitive… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 5 B2B Data Privacy Startups to Check Out in 2023...

Brave Android 1.47.172 Security Fixes

Improved browser privacy by reducing high resolution timer precision as reported on HackerOne by joe12387. - Improved URL bar by always displaying eTLD+1 URLs. Upgraded Chromium to 109.0.5414.87 — refer to Google Chrome advisories for inherited CVEs...

AZL-13005 CVE-2022-3515 affecting package gnupg2 for versions less than 2.4.0-1

A vulnerability was found in the Libksba library due to an integer overflow within the CRL parser. The vulnerability can be exploited remotely for code execution on the target system by passing specially crafted data to the application, for example, a malicious S/MIME attachment...

Experian Privacy Vulnerability

Brian Krebs is reporting on a vulnerability in Experians website: Identity thieves have been exploiting a glaring security weakness in the website of Experian, one of the big three consumer credit reporting bureaus. Normally, Experian requires that those seeking a copy of their credit report...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2023:0075-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG 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-only ifdescription...

Juniper Networks Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products

Juniper Networks has released security updates to address vulnerabilities affecting multiple products. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review Juniper Networks’ security advisories page and...

CVE-2022-47927

The CVE-2022-47927 issue affects MediaWiki prior to fixed releases: when installing with a pre-existing data directory that has weak permissions, SQLite files are created with mode 0644, making credentials data world-readable to local users. This affects MediaWiki versions listed in the initial d...

NCSC-UK Releases Guidance on Using MSP for Administering Cloud Services

The United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre NCSC-UK has released a blog post, Using MSPs to administer your cloud services, that provides organizations security considerations for using a third party, such as a managed service provider MSP, to administer cloud services. Contracting with a...

CVE-2023-22469

CVE-2023-22469 affects Nextcloud Deck (Deck app for Nextcloud), where unauthorized users can access cached data when obtaining a reference preview for a Deck card to which they have no access. Root cause is leakage via the reference preview cache, enabling data exposure of another user’s cards. A...