How to remove Google from your life

Swearing off a company used to be easier. Rude customer service, an unfortunate bout of food poisoning, even standing up for workers’ rights against the alleged involvement of a private company to order a country’s military to brutally quash a strike—almost every facet of an individual boycott...

A special browser designed for online banking. Good idea, or not so much?

The German Sparkasse bank has launched a browser that is especially designed to do your online banking. The browser called S-Protect is available for macOS and Windows users. The idea is interesting, since having a separate browser for banking can certainly add an extra layer of security. Separat...

Data Brokers Track Abortion Clinic Visits for Anyone to Buy

Plus: Russia rerouted internet in occupied Ukraine, Grindr sold its users' location data to ad networks, and more...

Apple Mail Now Blocks Email Tracking. Here’s What That Means

If you don’t like marketers or anyone else knowing when and where you read your email, Apple’s feature will help you reclaim some privacy...

CVE-2022-30334

Brave before 1.34, when a Private Window with Tor Connectivity is used, leaks .onion URLs in Referer and Origin headers. NOTE: although this was fixed by Brave, the Brave documentation still advises "Note that Private Windows with Tor Connectivity in Brave are just regular private windows that us...

Design/Logic Flaw

Brave before 1.34, when a Private Window with Tor Connectivity is used, leaks .onion URLs in Referer and Origin headers. NOTE: although this was fixed by Brave, the Brave documentation still advises "Note that Private Windows with Tor Connectivity in Brave are just regular private windows that us...

CVE-2022-30334

Brave before 1.34 is affected: when using a Private Window with Tor Connectivity, onion URLs can leak in Referer and Origin headers. Root cause and impact are described across multiple sources for Brave prior to the 1.34 release. Impact is limited to leak of onion addresses in specific headers; n...

CVE-2022-27909

In Joomla component 'jDownloads 3.9.8.2 Stable' the remote user can change some parameters in the address bar and see the names of other users' files...

How to Protect Your Digital Privacy if Roe v. Wade Falls

Reproductive rights are still largely guaranteed in the United States. Here are some key privacy concepts to adopt in the event that they're not...

Mozilla: Reader mode bypassed SameSite cookies

A flaw was found in Mozilla. The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes the issue of requests initiated through the reader mode did not properly omit cookies with a SameSite attribute...

Cisco Releases Security Updates for Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software

Cisco has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review Cisco advisory cisco-sa-NFVIS-MUL-7DySRX9 an...

India’s New Super App Has a Privacy Problem

Tata Neu is the country’s latest do-everything app. When users signed up, their personal information was already there...

F5 Releases Security Advisories Addressing Multiple Vulnerabilities

F5 has released security advisories on vulnerabilities affecting multiple products, including various versions of BIG-IP. Included in the release is an advisory for CVE-2022-1388, which allows undisclosed requests to bypass the iControl REST authentication in BIG-IP. An attacker could exploit...

Mozilla Releases Security Updates for Firefox and Firefox ESR

Mozilla has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in Firefox and Firefox ESR. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the Mozilla Security Advisory for Firefox 100 and Firefox...

Mozilla Releases Security Updates for Firefox, Firefox ESR, and Thunderbird

Mozilla has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in Firefox, Firefox ESR, and Thunderbird. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the Mozilla Security Advisory for Firefox 10...

Mozilla: Lack of Security Protections in Mental-Health Apps Is ‘Creepy’

While they have good intentions to foster mental health and spiritual wellness, the majority of mental-health and prayer apps can harm their users in other ways by exposing personal and intimate data due to a severe lack of security and privacy protections, researchers from Mozilla have found. Of...

Google Releases First Developer Preview of Privacy Sandbox on Android 13

Google has officially released the first developer preview for the Privacy Sandbox on Android 13, offering an "early look" at the SDK Runtime and Topics API to boost users' privacy online. "The Privacy Sandbox on Android Developer Preview program will run over the course of 2022, with a beta...

Data Protection as the Foundation of Trust: Celebrating Privacy Awareness Week in APAC

As part of our mission to help organisations protect their data and all paths to it, Imperva is supporting Privacy Awareness Week in Australia and Singapore, with the aim of educating individuals and organisations about the importance of data privacy and protection. In today’s digital economy, da...

GHSA-R524-C2GF-5CHR Trac reStructuredText breach of privacy and denial of service vulnerability

Trac before 0.9.6 does not disable the "raw" or "include" commands when providing untrusted users with restructured text reStructuredText functionality from docutils, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files, perform cross-site scripting XSS attacks, or cause a denial of service via...

Trac reStructuredText breach of privacy and denial of service vulnerability

Trac before 0.9.6 does not disable the "raw" or "include" commands when providing untrusted users with restructured text reStructuredText functionality from docutils, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files, perform cross-site scripting XSS attacks, or cause a denial of service via...