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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...
The Facebook Pixel Hunt aims to unravel Facebook’s tracking methods. Will you join?
Browser developer Mozilla has announced a research project to provide insights into, and data about, a space that’s opaque to policymakers, researchers and users themselves. Tracking the trackers is the name of the game. Give up some of your data voluntarily to stop the involuntary collection by...
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...
Citrix Releases Security Update for Workspace App for Linux
Citrix has released a security update to address a vulnerability in Workspace App for Linux. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review Citrix Security Update CTX338435 and apply the necessary update. This...
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 advisories for Firefox...
Samba Releases Security Update
The Samba Team has released a security update to address a vulnerability in multiple versions of Samba. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review Samba Security Announcement CVE-2021-43566 and apply the...
Microsoft Releases January 2022 Security Updates
Microsoft has released updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft software. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review Microsoft’s January 2022 Security Update Summary and Deployme...
Adobe Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products
Adobe has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple Adobe products. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the following Adobe Security Bulletins and apply the necessa...
CVE-2022-0155
follow-redirects is vulnerable to Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor...
New macOS vulnerability, “powerdir,” could lead to unauthorized user data access
Following our discovery of the “Shrootless” vulnerability, Microsoft uncovered a new macOS vulnerability, “powerdir,” that could allow an attacker to bypass the operating system’s Transparency, Consent, and Control TCC technology, thereby gaining unauthorized access to a user’s protected data. We...
How to Read Your iOS 15 App Privacy Report
Your iPhone now gives you lots of transparency into what your downloads are up to. Here's what to look out for...
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...
Google and Facebook fined $240 million for making cookies hard to refuse
French privacy watchdog, the Commission Nationale de lInformatique et des Libertés CNIL, has hit Google with a 150 million euro fine and Facebook with a 60 million euro fine, because their websites—google.fr, youtube.com, and facebook.com—dont make refusing cookies as easy as accepting them. The...
France Fines Google, Facebook €210 Million Over Privacy Violating Tracking Cookies
The Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés CNIL, France's data protection watchdog, has slapped Facebook now Meta Platforms and Google with fines of €150 million $170 million and €60 million $68 million for violating E.U. privacy rules by failing to provide users with an easy opti...
People Are Increasingly Choosing Private Web Search
DuckDuckGo has had a banner year: And yet, DuckDuckGo. The privacy-oriented search engine netted more than 35 billion search queries in 2021, a 46.4% jump over 2020 23.6 billion. Thats big. Even so, the company, which bills itself as the "Internet privacy company," offering a search engine and...
Broward Breach Highlights Healthcare Supply-Chain Problems
This week’s announcement by Florida’s Broward Health System that the most intimate medical data of 1,357,879 of its patients was breached in the fall should serve as a warning that the healthcare software supply chain will be a juicy target for cybercriminals as we head into 2022, researchers war...
Google Releases Security Updates for Chrome
Google has released Chrome version 97.0.4692.71 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This version addresses vulnerabilities that an attacker could exploit to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the Chrome Release Note and apply the necessary updates as...
VMware Releases Security Updates
VMware has released a security advisory to address a vulnerability in Workstation, Fusion, and ESXi. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2022-0001 and apply the necessa...
