Facebook Releases New Tool That Finds Security and Privacy Bugs in Android Apps

Facebook on Wednesday announced it's open-sourcing Mariana Trench, an Android-focused static analysis platform the company uses to detect and prevent security and privacy bugs in applications created for the mobile operating system at scale. "Mariana Trench is designed to be able to scan large...

Vaccine passport app leaks users’ personal data

Security and privacy advocates may have cause to worry after all: Portpass, a vaccine passport app in Canada, has been found to have been exposing the personal data of its users for an unknown length of time. On Monday, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation CBC received a tip that "the user profiles ...

Instagram Kids put on hold

Instagram has announced it is pausing the development of its newest brainchild, Instagram Kids—a version of Instagram aimed at 10-12-year-olds, or "tweens". Adam Mosseri, who heads up Instagram, wrote in a blog post about the idea behind Instagram Kids: "We started this project to address an...

Check What Information Your Browser Leaks

These two sites tell you what sorts of information youre leaking from your browser...

Phone screenshots accidentally leaked online by stalkerware-type company

pcTattleTale hasnt been very careful about securing the screenshots it sneakily takes from its victims phones. pcTattleTale markets itself as "employee and child monitoring software" that is undetectable by the device user, but it can also be used to spy on spouses and partners. It allows its...

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Description Sensitive data on the application can be exposed after the user logs Proof of Concept // PoC 1 Login to the application 2 Goto page like My Account 3 Click logout 4 Click browser back button Impact When a user logs out without closing the browser someone can view the information insid...

InBody App vulnerable to information disclosure

Overview InBody App provided by InBody Japan Inc. works with the household body composition analyzer InBody Dial manufactured and sold by InBody Japan Inc., and as a part of its functions, it manages and stores data such as weight, BMI, skeletal muscle mass, and fat mass measured by InBody Dial...

Securing mobile devices. A timely reminder

While home working might now be the norm for some, more and more people are going back to their place of work on a more regular basis. If you’re commuting again or if you’re responsible for securing your people’s devices it’s a good idea to revisit and review your security admin for mobile device...

RCE Vulnerability in Hikvision Cameras (CVE-2021-36260)

Hikvision has released updates to mitigate a command injection vulnerability—CVE-2021-36260—in Hikvision cameras that use a web server service. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected device. CISA encourages users and administrators to review Hikvision’s...

Malwarebytes research shows an unequal, unsafe Internet

If the Internet was as safe and as private as it is essential for everyday life—increasingly required for job applications, bank transfers, doctor’s appointments, and filing taxes—then we’d likely have fewer online scams, better privacy protections, smaller data breaches, and a lower overall risk...

CVE-2021-39246

Tor Browser through 10.5.6 and 11.x through 11.0a4 allows a correlation attack that can compromise the privacy of visits to v2 onion addresses. Exact timestamps of these onion-service visits are logged locally, and an attacker might be able to compare them to timestamp data collected by the...

CVE-2021-39246

Tor Browser through 10.5.6 and 11.x through 11.0a4 allows a correlation attack that can compromise the privacy of visits to v2 onion addresses. Exact timestamps of these onion-service visits are logged locally, and an attacker might be able to compare them to timestamp data collected by the...

Design/Logic Flaw

Tor Browser through 10.5.6 and 11.x through 11.0a4 allows a correlation attack that can compromise the privacy of visits to v2 onion addresses. Exact timestamps of these onion-service visits are logged locally, and an attacker might be able to compare them to timestamp data collected by the...

CVE-2021-39246

Tor Browser through 10.5.6 and 11.x through 11.0a4 allows a correlation attack that can compromise the privacy of visits to v2 onion addresses. Exact timestamps of these onion-service visits are logged locally, and an attacker might be able to compare them to timestamp data collected by the...

CVE-2021-39246

CVE-2021-39246 affects Tor Browser versions up to 10.5.6 and 11.x up to 11.0a4. The issue enables a correlation attack that can compromise the privacy of visits to v2 onion addresses by logging exact timestamps of onion-service visits locally, which an attacker could compare with timestamp data f...

CVE-2021-39246

Tor Browser through 10.5.6 and 11.x through 11.0a4 allows a correlation attack that can compromise the privacy of visits to v2 onion addresses. Exact timestamps of these onion-service visits are logged locally, and an attacker might be able to compare them to timestamp data collected by the...

Parents and teachers believe digital surveillance of kids outweighs risks

Schools in the US have been using surveillance software to keep an eye on their students, and such software has grown significantly in popularity since the COVD-19 pandemic closed campuses nationwide. And this is fine—at least according to new research released by the Center for Democracy &...

Google Releases Security Updates for Chrome

Google has released Chrome version 94.0.4606.61 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This version addresses a vulnerability—CVE-2021-37973—that an attacker could exploit to take control of an affected system. An exploit for this vulnerability exists in the wild. CISA encourages users and administrators t...

VMware vCenter Server Vulnerability CVE-2021-22005 Under Active Exploit

On September 21, 2021, VMware disclosed that its vCenter Server is affected by an arbitrary file upload vulnerability—CVE-2021-22005—in the Analytics service. A malicious cyber actor with network access to port 443 can exploit this vulnerability to execute code on vCenter Server. On September 24,...

Google Report Spotlights Controversial ‘Geofence Warrants’ by Police

Newly released data by Google sheds light on a controversial practice called “geofence warrants”, which describes the practice of law enforcement requesting mobile phone data of users within close proximity of a crime. Google said, in an August report, the number of geofence warrants the company...