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Today, we celebrate international Data Privacy Day. This day reminds us of the importance of respecting privacy, safeguarding data, and enabling trust. However, annual reminders are insufficient to drive material change, which can be seen in the effectiveness rates of one-off trainings. According...

Big Mother is watching: What parents REALLY think about tracking their kids

Every year on Data Privacy Day, we’re greeted with countless arguments about the absolute merits of data privacy protections good, invasions bad, but we rarely see a faithful, factual accounting for the biggest data privacy conundrum facing billions of people every single day: Should parents inva...

CISA Adds Eight Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

CISA has added eight new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence that threat actors are actively exploiting the vulnerabilities listed in the table below. These types of vulnerabilities are a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors of all types...

Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2013-0217)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 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...

Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2020-0300)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 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...

Privacy-by-design… not by accident

The concept of privacy-by-design was actually devised almost 30 years ago by Ann Cavoukian, PhD, former Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner. If youre reading a blog about privacy, chances are good you have at least a passing familiarity with Dr. Cavoukians seminal contribution to the...

Google Has a New Plan to Kill Cookies. People Are Still Mad

Google has scrapped FLoC, its controversial cookie replacement. Now it’s back with Topics—but rivals and privacy experts are still nervous...

Five Data Privacy Tips for Consumers

As a consumer, you must assume that your personal information is not 100% safe online. Hackers cause data breaches every single day, exposing our email addresses, passwords, credit card numbers, social security numbers and other sensitive personal data in the process. Most people don’t think abou...

Apple Releases iOS and macOS Updates to Patch Actively Exploited 0-Day Vulnerability

Apple on Wednesday released iOS 15.3 and macOS Monterey 12.2 with a fix for the privacy-defeating bug in Safari, as well as to contain a zero-day flaw, which it said has been exploited in the wild to break into its devices. Tracked as CVE-2022-22587, the vulnerability relates to a memory corrupti...

FBI Releases PIN on Iranian Cyber Group Emennet Pasargad

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has released a Private Industry Notification PIN that provides a historical overview of Iran-based cyber company Emennet Pasargad’s tactics, techniques, and procedures to enable readers to identify and defend against the group’s malicious cyber activities...

Apple Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products

Apple has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple products. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the Apple security pages for the following products and apply the...

CVE-2021-44692

The CVE describes a vulnerability in BuddyBoss Platform up to version 1.8.0 where user emails can be inferred and exposed. When a new user is created, a UID is generated for the profile, which encodes the user’s private email address (symbols removed, periods replaced with hyphens). The resulting...

Google Drops FLoC and Introduces Topics API to Replace Tracking Cookies for Ads

Google on Tuesday announced that it is abandoning its controversial plans for replacing third-party cookies in favor of a new Privacy Sandbox proposal called Topics, which categorizes users' browsing habits into approximately 350 topics. The new mechanism, which takes the place of FLoC short for...

Bromite 安全漏洞

Bromite is a Chromium fork. It is used for adblocking and privacy enhancement. Bromite has a security vulnerability that stems from the fact that Bromite comes with a hard-coded adblock filter, with versions recognized by the rules it has...

PT-2022-7141 · WordPress · Wordpress Gdpr Plugin

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: WordPress GDPR plugin versions prior to 1.9.27 Description: The issue concerns the check privacy settings AJAX action in the WordPress GDPR plugin, which is accessible to both unauthenticated and authenticated users. This action responds with...

About the security content of macOS Big Sur 11.6.3

About the security content of macOS Big Sur 11.6.3 This document describes the security content of macOS Big Sur 11.6.3. About Apple security updates For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or...

CVE-2021-43799

Zulip Server before version 4.9 runs RabbitMQ for internal messaging, and at initial install may leave port 25672 open without strong protection. The RabbitMQ cookie is generated with a weak PRNG, yielding about 20 bits of entropy, enabling a remote attacker to brute-force the cookie if OS/networ...

The Data-Centric Approach to Data Privacy

All organizations understand how critical it is to have access to their customers and prospects’ sensitive personal data. This intelligence is essential to helping them create and maintain relationships so they can deliver tailored experiences and recommendations. Having this sensitive personal...

Updated phpmyadmin packages fix security vulnerability

A flaw was identified in how phpMyAdmin processes two factor authentication; a user could potentially manipulate their account to bypass two factor authentication in subsequent authentication sessions PMASA-2022-1. A series of weaknesses was identified allowing a malicious user to submit maliciou...

A week in security (January 17 – 23)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: CISA calls for urgent action against critical threats Red Cross begs attackers to “Do the right thing” after family reunion service compromised Update now! Chrome patches critical RCE vulnerability in Safe Browsing Combatting SMS and phone fraud: UK government issu...