What is Tor?

Tor, The Onion Router Tor The Onion Router is free software used to keep your online communications safe and secure from outside observers. It’s designed to block tracking and eavesdropping, resist fingerprinting where services tie your browser and device information to an identity, and to hide t...

MacOS Flaw in Telegram Retrieves Deleted Messages

A vulnerability in a high-level privacy feature of Telegram on macOS that sets up a “self-destruct” timer for messages on both the sender’s and recipient’s devices can allow someone to retrieve these messages even after they’ve been deleted, a researcher has found. Reegun Richard Jayapaul,...

CISA Releases Security Advisory for InterNiche Products

CISA has released an Industrial Control Systems ICS advisory detailing multiple vulnerabilities in InterNiche products. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the ICS Advisory ICSA-21-217-01...

VMware Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products

VMware has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple products. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to gain access to confidential information. CISA encourages users and administrators to review VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2021-0016 and apply the necessary...

‘I’m Calling About Your Car Warranty’, aka PII Hijinx

LAS VEGAS – When you sign up on a new website, where does that information go? Some researchers decided to find out. On Wednesday, they released their preliminary information at a Black Hat USA 2021 session called Use and Abuse of Personal Information. Researchers created 300 fake identities,...

Google Releases Security Updates for Chrome

Google has released Chrome version 92.0.4515.131 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. Th...

Zoom and gloom? Video comms org agrees to settle for $85m

Zoom has agreed to an $85m settlement regarding privacy, zoom-bombing, and data sharing. The class action privacy lawsuit filed in the US against the embattled company wasn’t particularly impressed with the following: Zoom-bombing running wild in video sessions. Zoom-bombing, the practice of...

CISA Releases Security Advisory for Swisslog Healthcare

CISA has released an Industrial Control Systems ICS advisory detailing multiple vulnerabilities in Swisslog Healthcare Translogic Pneumatic Tube Systems PTS. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to...

CISA and NSA Release Kubernetes Hardening Guidance

The National Security Agency NSA and CISA have released Kubernetes Hardening Guidance, a cybersecurity technical report detailing the complexities of securely managing Kubernetes—an open-source, container-orchestration system used to automate deploying, scaling, and managing containerized...

Securing Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in web applications

PII is the acronym for “personally identifiable information”. What this means in the explicit language is information exclusive to a specific individual. Due to its exclusivity, it serves the purpose of identifying, locating, and securing specific persons. For instance, think of that specific...

The Privacy Battle That Apple Isn’t Fighting

California has begun enforcing a browser-level privacy setting, but you still can’t find that option in Safari or iOS...

Storing Encrypted Photos in Google’s Cloud

New paper: "Encrypted Cloud Photo Storage Using Google Photos": Abstract: Cloud photo services are widely used for persistent, convenient, and often free photo storage, which is especially useful for mobile devices. As users store more and more photos in the cloud, significant privacy concerns...

Are you sharing your address on social media?

Do you share your full address on social media? No, of course not, or at least I hope you are not. But are you sharing enough information for someone to work out your address? Maybe! Over time we share seemingly small amounts of information that put together could allow attackers to find your...

NSA Releases Guidance on Securing Wireless Devices While in Public

The National Security Agency NSA has released an information sheet with guidance on securing wireless devices while in public for National Security System, Department of Defense, and Defense Industrial Base teleworkers, as well as the general public. This information sheet provides information on...

Top Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities

CISA, the Australian Cyber Security Centre ACSC, the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre NCSC, and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI have released the Joint Cybersecurity Advisory Top Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities, which details the top vulnerabilities routinely...

Microsoft Releases Guidance for Mitigating PetitPotam NTLM Relay Attacks

On July 23, Microsoft released KB5005413: Mitigating NTLM Relay Attacks on Active Directory Certificate Services AD CS to address a NTLM Relay Attack named PetitPotam. CISA encourages users and administrators to review KB5005413 and apply the necessary mitigations. This product is provided subjec...

Thinking about data privacy strategically: four key questions

It wasnt that long ago when the concept of data privacy was mostly a legal question. Privacy obligations arose almost exclusively from regulations, so most organizations delegated the problem to legal counsel, who then tackled the problem through policy and contract language. At best, it was a co...

What To Do With Dead Mac Internal SSD To Protect Your Privacy

By Owais Sultan The best way to get rid of the information on your SSD is to shred it. You can do it by yourself or have it shredded at a recycling center. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: What To Do With Dead Mac Internal SSD To Protect Your Privacy...

Mail.ru: Read-only user can edit user segments.

Domain -- https://tracker.my.com/segment/list Testing environment -- Open two separate browsers with two independent accounts created at https://tracker.my.com/ Steps to reproduce -- In browser A 1. Log in to your account at https://tracker.my.com/ as user 1. 2. Create a new account at...

OTRS 信息泄露漏洞

OTRS is an application from the German company OTRS. A service management software. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in OTRS AG OTRS Community Edition, which arises from the generation of support packages that contain private S MIME and PGP keys if the containing folder is not hidde...