Agora SDK Bug Left Several Video Calling Apps Vulnerable to Snooping

A severe security vulnerability in a popular video calling software development kit SDK could have allowed an attacker to spy on ongoing private video and audio calls. That's according to new research published by the McAfee Advanced Threat Research ATR team today, which found the aforementioned...

CVE-2021-22856

The CGE property management system contains SQL Injection vulnerabilities. Remote attackers can inject SQL commands into the parameters in Cookie and obtain data in the database without privilege...

ATR Team Finds Vulnerability in Agora Video SDK

ARCHIVED STORY Don’t Call Us We’ll Call You: McAfee ATR Finds Vulnerability in Agora Video SDK Douglas McKee · FEB 17, 2021 The McAfee Advanced Threat Research ATR team is committed to uncovering security issues in both software and hardware to help developers provide safer products for businesse...

Google Releases Security Updates for Chrome

Google has released Chrome version 88.0.4324.182 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 and apply the necessary updates. This...

Complaint Blasts TikTok’s 'Misleading' Privacy Policies

An umbrella group comprising 44 consumer-privacy watchdog organizations have filed a complaint against TikTok, saying the wildly-popular video-sharing platform has “misleading” data-collection policies. ByteDance-owned TikTok has skyrocketed in popularity, with more than 2 billion downloads on th...

Apple will proxy Safe Browsing requests to hide iOS users' IP from Google

Apple's upcoming iOS 14.5 update will come with a new feature that will redirect all fraudulent website checks through its own proxy servers as a workaround to preserve user privacy and prevent leaking IP addresses to Google. A built-in security-focused feature in the Safari browser, "Fraudulent...

Apple will proxy Safe Browsing requests to hide iOS users' IP from Google

Apple's upcoming iOS 14.5 update will come with a new feature that will redirect all fraudulent website checks through its own proxy servers as a workaround to preserve user privacy and prevent leaking IP addresses to Google. A built-in security-focused feature in the Safari browser, "Fraudulent...

Secret Chat in Telegram Left Self-Destructing Media Files On Devices

Popular messaging app Telegram fixed a privacy-defeating bug in its macOS app that made it possible to access self-destructing audio and video messages long after they disappeared from secret chats. The vulnerability was discovered by security researcher Dhiraj Mishra in version 7.3 of the app, w...

VMware Releases Security Update

VMware has released a security update to address a vulnerability in vSphere Replication. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2021-0001 and apply the necessary update...

CVE-2021-21301

Wire is an open-source collaboration platform. In Wire for iOS iPhone and iPad before version 3.75 there is a vulnerability where the video capture isn't stopped in a scenario where a user first has their camera enabled and then disables it. It's a privacy issue because video is streamed to the...

CVE-2021-21301

Wire is an open-source collaboration platform. In Wire for iOS iPhone and iPad before version 3.75 there is a vulnerability where the video capture isn't stopped in a scenario where a user first has their camera enabled and then disables it. It's a privacy issue because video is streamed to the...

CVE-2021-21301

Wire is an open-source collaboration platform. In Wire for iOS iPhone and iPad before version 3.75 there is a vulnerability where the video capture isn't stopped in a scenario where a user first has their camera enabled and then disables it. It's a privacy issue because video is streamed to the...

Design/Logic Flaw

Wire is an open-source collaboration platform. In Wire for iOS iPhone and iPad before version 3.75 there is a vulnerability where the video capture isn't stopped in a scenario where a user first has their camera enabled and then disables it. It's a privacy issue because video is streamed to the...

CVE-2021-21301

Wire is an open-source collaboration platform. In Wire for iOS iPhone and iPad before version 3.75 there is a vulnerability where the video capture isn't stopped in a scenario where a user first has their camera enabled and then disables it. It's a privacy issue because video is streamed to the...

CVE-2021-21301

Wire for iOS prior to 3.75 contains a privacy vulnerability where video capture isn’t stopped when a user first enables the camera and then disables it, causing video to be streamed in calls and potentially exposed. All users in video calls are affected. The issue is fixed in version 3.75. Remedi...

CVE-2021-21301 Video feed was captured while user has disabled video

Wire is an open-source collaboration platform. In Wire for iOS iPhone and iPad before version 3.75 there is a vulnerability where the video capture isn't stopped in a scenario where a user first has their camera enabled and then disables it. It's a privacy issue because video is streamed to the...

tomcat: Apache Tomcat HTTP/2 Request mix-up

A flaw was found in Apache Tomcat. If an HTTP/2 client exceeded the agreed maximum number of concurrent streams for a connection in violation of the HTTP/2 protocol, it is possible that a subsequent request made on that connection could contain HTTP headers - including HTTP/2 pseudo headers - fro...

Verify Your Valentine

This Valentine’s Day, before you go looking for love in all the wrong chat rooms, CISA reminds users to be wary of internet romance scams. At first, cyber criminals promise the reward of romance after adopting an alias to appear as a potential partner. Once your heart is hooked on hope, they turn...

Compromise of U.S. Water Treatment Facility

In response to recent events where unidentified cyber actors obtained unauthorized access to the supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA system at a U.S. drinking water treatment facility, CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Multi-State...

WhatsApp Controversy Highlights the Importance of Data Privacy

By Waqas If you think customers aren't concerned about what you do with your data, the recent WhatsApp controversy should make you think again. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: WhatsApp Controversy Highlights the Importance of Data Privacy...