Second colossal LinkedIn “breach” in 3 months, almost all users affected

LinkedIn has reportedly been breached—again—following reports of a massive sale of information scraped from 500M LinkedIn user profiles in the underground in May. According to Privacy Shark, the VPN company who first reported on this incident, a seller called TomLiner showed them he was in...

Feds Told to Better Manage Facial Recognition, Amid Privacy Concerns

Though the federal government widely uses facial recognition for various uses from criminal investigations to collecting traveler data, this use is largely unmonitored and unmanaged — a scenario that must change to protect people’s privacy and avoid inaccurate identification of perpetrators, a...

[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: libgcrypt-1.8.8-1.fc33

Libgcrypt is a general purpose crypto library based on the code used in GNU Privacy Guard. This is a development version...

CISA’s CSET Tool Sets Sights on Ransomware Threat

CISA has released a new module in its Cyber Security Evaluation Tool CSET: the Ransomware Readiness Assessment RRA. CSET is a desktop software tool that guides network defenders through a step-by-step process to evaluate their cybersecurity practices on their networks. CSET—applicable to both...

PrintNightmare, Critical Windows Print Spooler Vulnerability

Updated July 2, 2021 For new information and mitigations, see Microsoft's updated guidance for the Print spooler vulnerability CVE-2021-34527. Updated July 1, 2021 See Microsoft's new guidance for the Print spooler vulnerability CVE-2021-34527 and apply the necessary workarounds. Original post Ju...

Remote dating: How do the apps safeguard our data?

The pandemic and the restrictions that came with it have led to an increase in the popularity of dating apps. For example, the total number of swipes on Tinder increased by 11% last year, with the daily number of swipes surpassing the 3 billion mark for the first time as early as March 2020. This...

Google for OpSec data discovery

Following last months post about what OpSec is and how it can benefit your company I wanted go a step further, and look at some of the ways you can super charge your searches to find interesting data about your company. Basic search parameters As I mentioned last month, one of the most useful too...

CISA Begins Cataloging Bad Practices that Increase Cyber Risk

In a blog post by Executive Assistant Director EAD Eric Goldstein, CISA announced the creation of a catalog to document bad cybersecurity practices that are exceptionally risky for any organization and especially dangerous for those supporting designated Critical Infrastructure or National Critic...

Data for 700M LinkedIn Users Posted for Sale

A new posting with 700 million LinkedIn records has appeared on a popular hacker forum, according to researchers. Analysts from Privacy Sharks stumbled across the data put up for sale on RaidForums by a hacker calling himself “GOD User TomLiner.” The advertisement, posted June 22, claims that 700...

Data privacy: What's new in cross-border transfers? The Standard Contractual Clauses

The transfer of personal data between companies and countries is vital for smooth data processing operations. When transferring data out of the European Union, companies are required to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation GDPR which requires that any data that is transferred to a...

What is the WireGuard VPN protocol?

In layman’s terms, a VPN uses encryption to create a private online connection between a device and a VPN server. With a good VPN service, you can shield your data from curious eyes. A VPN protocol is the set of rules that shapes how your data travels between your computer, mobile phone, tablet, ...

Gartner report recommends a smart approach to enterprises needing to incorporate data privacy capabilities to manage evolving regulatory guidelines

In a recent Gartner report The State of Privacy and Personal Data Protection, 2020-2022, the authors assume that “through 2022, privacy-driven spending on compliance tooling will increase to more than US$8 billion worldwide. By 2023, 65 percent of the world’s population will have its personal...

Zenly: Friend Request Flow Exposes User Data

Summary: When submitting a friend request to a user, Zenly will allow access to their phone number regardless of whether the friend request is accepted or not. To obtain this information, a malicious actor only needs to know their username. Steps To Reproduce: To reproduce this issue, an...

Google Extends Support for Tracking Party Cookies Until 2023

Google's sweeping proposal to deprecate third-party cookies in Chrome browser is going back to the drawing board after the company announced plans to delay the rollout from early 2022 to late 2023, pushing back the project by nearly two years. "While there's considerable progress with this...

Citrix Releases Security Updates for Hypervisor

Citrix has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in Hypervisor. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to cause a denial-of-service condition. CISA encourages users and administrators to review Citrix Security Update CTX316325 and apply the necessary updates. This product ...

Vulnerability fixed in libgcrypt

The developers of GnuPG have fixed a vulnerability in libgcrypt. The vulnerability is caused by an insecure implementation of ElGamal cryptography. A malicious person could potentially exploit the vulnerability to perform a side-channel attack against data encrypted using ElGamal. Few substantive...

Banning Surveillance-Based Advertising

The Norwegian Consumer Council just published a fantastic new report: "Time to Ban Surveillance-Based Advertising." From the Introduction: The challenges caused and entrenched by surveillance-based advertising include, but are not limited to: privacy and data protection infringements opaque...

CVE-2021-29963

Address bar search suggestions in private browsing mode were re-using session data from normal mode. This bug only affects Firefox for Android. Other operating systems are unaffected.. This vulnerability affects Firefox 89...

CVE-2021-23992

Thunderbird did not check if the user ID associated with an OpenPGP key has a valid self signature. An attacker may create a crafted version of an OpenPGP key, by either replacing the original user ID, or by adding another user ID. If Thunderbird imports and accepts the crafted key, the Thunderbi...

Code injection

When a download was initiated, the client did not check whether it was in normal or private browsing mode, which led to private mode cookies being shared in normal browsing mode. This vulnerability affects Firefox for iOS 34...