Linux kernel 安全漏洞

Linux kernel is the kernel used by Linux, the open source operating system of the Linux Foundation in the United States. A security vulnerability exists in Linux kernel version 5.8.9. The vulnerability stems from when a device sends segmented frames and uses the WEP, CCMP, or GCMP data...

Accept new privacy policies or use WhatsApp with limited features

By Waqas One major WhatsApp feature that will be limited includes receiving calls and messages as the messaging service will be disabled. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Accept new privacy policies or use WhatsApp with limited features...

Alleviating ransomware’s legal headaches with Jake Bernstein: Lock and Code S02E08

This week on Lock and Code, we speak to cybersecurity and privacy attorney Jake Bernstein about ransomware attacks that dont just derail a companys reputation and productivity, but also throw them into potential legal peril. In 2020, the cybersecurity community noticed a worrying trend from...

Over 25% Of Tor Exit Relays Spied On Users' Dark Web Activities

An unknown threat actor managed to control more than 27% of the entire Tor network exit capacity in early February 2021, a new study on the dark web infrastructure revealed. "The entity attacking Tor users is actively exploiting tor users since over a year and expanded the scale of their attacks ...

What’s Google FLoC? And How Does It Affect Your Privacy?

There’s a battle raging over how advertisers can target us on the web—or whether they should be able to target us at all...

Facebook Will Limit Your WhatsApp Features For Not Accepting Privacy Policy

WhatsApp on Friday disclosed that it won't deactivate accounts of users who don't accept its new privacy policy rolling out on May 15, adding it will continue to keep reminding them to accept the new terms. "No one will have their accounts deleted or lose functionality of WhatsApp on May 15 becau...

Twitter's Tip Jar Privacy Fiasco Was Entirely Avoidable

Sending its users to PayPal has created all sorts of problems that Twitter should have caught ahead of time...

4 Major Privacy and Security Updates From Google You Should Know About

Google has announced a number of user-facing and under-the-hood changes in an attempt to boost privacy and security, including rolling out two-factor authentication automatically to all eligible users and bringing iOS-styled privacy labels to Android app listings. "Today we ask people who have...

Teaching Cybersecurity to Children

A new draft of an Australian educational curriculum proposes teaching children as young as five cybersecurity: The proposed curriculum aims to teach five-year-old children -- an age at which Australian kids first attend school -- not to share information such as date of birth or full names with...

VPN protocols explained and compared

A Virtual Private Network VPN creates a safe "tunnel" between you and a computer you trust normally your VPN provider to protect your traffic from spying and manipulation. Any VPN worth its money encrypts the information that passes through it, so in this article we will ignore those that dont us...

Trend Micro Home Network Security Denial of Service Vulnerability

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. A denial of service vulnerability exists in Trend Micro Ho...

Joint NCSC-CISA-FBI-NSA Cybersecurity Advisory on Russian SVR Activity

CISA has joined with the United Kingdom's National Cyber Security Centre NCSC, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, and the National Security Agency NSA, in releasing a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory on Russian Foreign Intelligence Service SVR tactics, techniques, and procedures. Further TTPs...

Facebook bans Signal ads that reveal the depth of what it knows about you

Most of our readers are well aware of the fact that the big tech corporations, especially those that run social media know a great deal about us and our behavior. But it rarely hits home how much personal data they have about us and how they can guess, quite correctly, even more. Lots more. Signa...

Mozilla Releases Security Updates for Firefox

Mozilla has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in Firefox. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the Mozilla Security Advisory for Firefox 88.0.1 and apply the necessary updates...

VMware Releases Security Update

VMware has released a security update to address a vulnerability in VMware vRealize Business for Cloud. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2021-0007 and apply th...

WordPress 跨站请求伪造漏洞

WordPress is a set of blogging platforms developed using the PHP language by the WordPress Wordpress Foundation. The platform supports setting up personal blog sites on servers with PHP and MySQL. A cross-site request forgery vulnerability exists in WordPress Business Directory Plugin versions...

Peloton’s Leaky API Spilled Riders’ Private Data

Peloton has hit a pothole. Its API was leaking riders’ private data, it ignored a vulnerability disclosure from a penetration testing company, and it partially fixed the hole but didn’t get around to telling the researcher until he reached out to a cybersecurity journalist for some help. This is...

New Study Warns of Security Threats Linked to Recycled Phone Numbers

A new academic study has highlighted a number of privacy and security pitfalls associated with recycling mobile phone numbers that could be abused to stage a variety of exploits, including account takeovers, conduct phishing and spam attacks, and even prevent victims from signing up for online...

Tour de Peloton: Exposed user data

An unauthenticated user could view sensitive information for all users, and snoop on live class statistics and its attendees, despite having a private mode. TL;DR Information disclosed included: - User IDs - Instructor IDs - Group Membership - Location - Workout stats - Gender and age - If they a...

The vulnerability of the Thunderbird email client, related to errors in processing OpenPGP cryptographic signatures, allows attackers to compromise the confidentiality and integrity of protected information.

The vulnerability of the Thunderbird email client is related to errors in processing OpenPGP cryptographic signatures. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to compromise the confidentiality and integrity of the protected information...