Google Chrome to Help Users Identify Untrusted Extensions Before Installation

Google on Thursday said it's rolling out new security features to Chrome browser aimed at detecting suspicious downloads and extensions via its Enhanced Safe Browsing feature, which it launched a year ago. To this end, the search giant said it will now offer additional protections when users...

Design/Logic Flaw

Luca through 1.7.4 on Android allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about COVID-19 tracking because requests related to Check-In State occur shortly after requests for Phone Number Registration...

Unpatched VMware vCenter Software

CISA is aware of the likelihood that cyber threat actors are attempting to exploit CVE-2021-21985, a remote code execution vulnerability in VMware vCenter Server and VMware Cloud Foundation. Although patches were made available on May 25, 2021, unpatched systems remain an attractive target and...

Supreme Court narrows CFAA

The US Supreme Court issued its long-awaited-by-cybersecurity-nerds opinion on Van Buren v. United States. The case examined whether it was a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act CFAA for a police officer to access a law enforcement database to obtain information, which the officer then...

Afternoon Cyber Tea: Cybersecurity challenged to meet diversity goals

Organizations often know they need to identify and address their cybersecurity blind spots. They also know the technology exists to help them do that. However, they don’t often understand how to communicate this need within their organization to justify the expense, nor do they know how to share...

Afternoon Cyber Tea: Cybersecurity challenged to meet diversity goals

Organizations often know they need to identify and address their cybersecurity blind spots. They also know the technology exists to help them do that. However, they don’t often understand how to communicate this need within their organization to justify the expense, nor do they know how to share...

Privacy compliance for smart meter infrastructure with Microsoft Information Protection and Azure Purview

Smart meters and smart grid infrastructure have been deployed in many of the world’s electric distribution grids. They promise energy conservation, better grid management for utilities, electricity theft reduction, and a host of value-added services for consumers. To deliver on this promise, they...

Privacy compliance for smart meter infrastructure with Microsoft Information Protection and Azure Purview

Smart meters and smart grid infrastructure have been deployed in many of the world’s electric distribution grids. They promise energy conservation, better grid management for utilities, electricity theft reduction, and a host of value-added services for consumers. To deliver on this promise, they...

Amazon Sidewalk Poised to Sweep You Into Its Mesh

Tweet On June 8, Amazon, the Web giant with tentacles reaching into every nook and cranny of our lives, is going to stretch those tentacles out further by turning all its gadgets into little cell towers so they can help each other out with little slices of bandwidth. It’s created a new Wi-Fi...

Nextcloud: Bypass of privacy filter / tracking pixel blocker

Description ------------ When the mail app receives inline images, it will block them for privacy reasons to prevent tracking pixels The images have been blocked to protect your privacy. This block works correctly for most remote resources in addition to images, remote CSS files, iframes, and som...

CISA Releases Best Practices for Mapping to MITRE ATT&CK®

As part of an effort to encourage a common language in threat actor analysis, CISA has released Best Practices for MITRE ATT&CK® Mapping. The guide shows analysts—through instructions and examples—how to map adversary behavior to the MITRE ATT&CK framework. CISA created this guide in partnership...

CVE-2021-29960

Firefox used to cache the last filename used for printing a file. When generating a filename for printing, Firefox usually suggests the web page title. The caching and suggestion techniques combined may have lead to the title of a website visited during private browsing mode being stored on disk...

Mozilla Releases Security Updates for Firefox

Mozilla has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in Firefox and Firefox ESR. 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 Advisory for Firefox 89 and Firefox E...

Cisco Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products

Cisco has released security updates to address a vulnerability in multiple Cisco products. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the following Cisco advisory and apply the necessary updates: Lasso SAM...

WhatsApp reverses course, will not limit app functionality

WhatsApp, the end-to-end encrypted messaging service that has lost users, its founders, and a large amount of public goodwill, issued a reversal on its recent privacy policy enforcement measures, clarifying that it will no longer punish users who refuse to share some of their data with the...

ansible: user data leak in snmp_facts module

A flaw was found in ansible. The 'authkey' and 'privkey' credentials are disclosed by default and not protected by nolog feature when using the snmpfacts module. Attackers could take advantage of this information to steal the SNMP credentials. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data...

Mozilla Firefox 数据伪造问题漏洞

Mozilla Firefox is an open source Web browser from the Mozilla Foundation in the U.S. Mozilla Firefox is vulnerable to a data forgery issue that stems from the address bar search suggestion in privacy mode being a reuse of session data in normal mode, which can be exploited by remote attackers to...

Your Amazon Devices to Automatically Share Your Wi-Fi With Neighbors

Starting June 8, Amazon will automatically enable a feature on its family of hardware devices, including Echo speakers, Ring Video Doorbells, Ring Floodlight Cams, and Ring Spotlight Cams, that will share a small part of your Internet bandwidth with nearby neighbors — unless you choose to opt-out...

The slow trend away from facial recognition technology

It’s been a busy few weeks for facial recognition technology. Its oft-maligned abilities frequently wind up in tales of privacy invasion, or false positives, or dubious data retention. In fact, it’s not uncommon to see big organisations backing away from how they expect to use it, or indeed deplo...

Unspecified Vulnerability in Trend Micro Home Network Security

Trend Micro Home Network Security is a network appliance from Trend Micro, Inc. It is used to scan all incoming and outgoing traffic to and from the home network to prevent intrusions, block hacking and cyber threats, and protect privacy. There is a security vulnerability in Trend Micro Home...