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...

CVE-2021-29963

Summary: CVE-2021-29963 affects Firefox for Android, where address bar search suggestions in private browsing mode reused session data from normal mode. The issue is limited to Android; other OSes are unaffected. Affected product: Firefox for Android prior to version 89. Root cause: private mode ...

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...

Reduce Business Risk By Fixing 3 Critical Endpoint-to-Cloud Security Requirements

Enterprise applications used to live securely in data centers and office employees connected to internal networks using company-managed laptops or desktops. And data was encircled by a walled perimeter to keep everything safe. All that changed in the last 18 months. Businesses and employees had t...

Fedora: Security Advisory for tor (FEDORA-2021-1b60c984e5)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2021 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is free software; you can...

Patch Tor Browser Bug to Prevent Tracking of Your Online Activities

Open-source Tor browser has been updated to version 10.0.18 with fixes for multiple issues, including a privacy-defeating bug that could be used to uniquely fingerprint users across different browsers based on the apps installed on a computer. In addition to updating Tor to 0.4.5.9, the browser's...

[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: tor-0.4.5.9-1.fc33

The Tor network is a group of volunteer-operated servers that allows people to improve their privacy and security on the Internet. Tor's users employ this network by connecting through a series of virtual tunnels rather than makin g a direct connection, thus allowing both organizations and...

[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: tor-0.4.5.9-1.fc34

The Tor network is a group of volunteer-operated servers that allows people to improve their privacy and security on the Internet. Tor's users employ this network by connecting through a series of virtual tunnels rather than makin g a direct connection, thus allowing both organizations and...

The vulnerability of implementations of WEP, WPA, WPA2, and WPA3 algorithms in the Linux operating system allows attackers to compromise the integrity of protected information.

The vulnerability of implementations of WEP, WPA, WPA2, and WPA3 algorithms in Linux operating systems exists due to insufficient validation of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to compromise the integrity of protected information by using specially crafted...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4999-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4999-1 advisory. Norbert Slusarek discovered a race condition in the CAN BCM networking protocol of the Linux kernel leading to multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities. A...

HashCheck - Tool To Assist In The Search For Leaked Passwords

This project aims to assist in the search for leaked passwords while maintaining a high level of privacy using the k-anonymity method. To achieve this, the APIs of different services are used, sending only a part of the Hash of the password we want to check, for example, the first 5 characters...

Kids’ Apps on Google Play Rife with Privacy Violations

About 20 percent of the Top 500 kids’ mobile apps in the Google Play store are collecting data on users in a way that likely violates the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act COPPA. These have been downloaded by a collective 492 million users, researchers said. That’s according to an analysis...

Automated remediation level 2: Best practices

A low-impact workaround When it comes to automating remediation, the second level we’ll discuss takes a bit of additional planning. This is so that users will see little to no impact in the account fundamentals automation process. This framework aligns with the Center for Internet Security Amazon...

All the Ways Amazon Tracks You—and How to Stop It

The retail empire is obsessed with your data. But is the convenience worth your personal information?...

Apple Will Offer Onion Routing for iCloud/Safari Users

At this years Apple Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple announced something called "iCloud Private Relay." Thats basically its private version of onion routing, which is what Tor does. Privacy Relay is built into both the forthcoming iOS and MacOS versions, but it will only work if youre an...

Design/Logic Flaw

In onStart of ContactsDumpActivity.java, there is possible access to contacts due to a tapjacking/overlay attack. This could lead to local information disclosure with User execution privileges needed. User interaction is needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions: Android-11Android ID:...

Six Flags to Pay $36M Over Collection of Fingerprints

Theme park operator Six Flags has agreed to pay $36 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over its acquisition of the fingerprint data of visitors to its theme parks. The Illinois Supreme Court ruled in the case Rosenbach v. Six Flags that collecting biometric data at premises’ gates by scanni...

HTTP/3 and QUIC: Past, Present, and Future

You may have seen the announcements over the past two weeks -- the IETF QUIC RFCs have been published! That leads to a lot of questions, depending on how closely you've followed this space. You might be wondering what this means to you, or you might think QUIC has been an established thing for...

A Bug in the Android Google App Put Privacy at Risk

Plus: Airbnb's safety squad, a fake pharmacy crackdown, and more of the week's top security news...

First American Financial Pays Farcical $500K Fine

In May 2019, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the website of mortgage settlement giant First American Financial Corp. NYSE:FAF was leaking more than 800 million documents -- many containing sensitive financial data -- related to real estate transactions dating back 16 years. This week, the U.S...