The Android 11 Privacy and Security Features You Should Know

Many of the updates to Google’s mobile OS are behind the scenes—but they can help you control your app permissions and keep your data safe...

Ring's Flying In-Home Camera Drone Escalates Privacy Worries

Ring’s newly announced robot drone – a connected device that flies around homes taking security footage – is causing privacy experts’ concerns to take off. Amazon on Thursday unveiled the Always Home Cam as part of its Ring division, which will cost $249.99 and starts shipping next year. The...

[Podcast] How Entrepreneur Christian Wentz Takes On Identity Authentication and Data Integrity One Line of Code at a Time

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Cisco Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products

Cisco has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple products. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA encourages users and administrators to review the Cis...

Major Instagram App Bug Could've Given Hackers Remote Access to Your Phone

Ever wonder how hackers can hack your smartphone remotely? In a report shared with The Hacker News today, Check Point researchers disclosed details about a critical vulnerability in Instagram's Android app that could have allowed remote attackers to take control over a targeted device just by...

ALPINE-CVE-2020-14365

A flaw was found in the Ansible Engine, in ansible-engine 2.8.x before 2.8.15 and ansible-engine 2.9.x before 2.9.13, when installing packages using the dnf module. GPG signatures are ignored during installation even when disablegpgcheck is set to False, which is the default behavior. This flaw...

Firefox 81 Release Kills High-Severity Code-Execution Bugs

Mozilla patched high-severity vulnerabilities with the release of Firefox 81 and Firefox ESR 78.3, including several that could be exploited to run arbitrary code. Two severe bugs CVE-2020-15674 and CVE-2020-15673 are errors in the browser’s memory-safety protections, which prevent memory access...

Google Releases Security Updates for Chrome

Google has updated the stable channel for Chrome to 85.0.4183.121 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This version addresses vulnerabilities that an attacker could exploit to take control of an affected system. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA encourages users and administrators...

A week in security (September 14 – 20)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we looked at Fintech industry developments, specifically the differences between Europe and the US, and we analyzed how some charities and the advertising industry are tied together. We also told readers about what companies can do to counter domain name abuse. In...

cwicsocal18.ics.uci.edu GDPR PII Exposure vulnerability OBB-1351986

Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspa. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspb. notified the website operator about its existence...

students.ics.uci.edu GDPR PII Exposure vulnerability OBB-1351981

Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspa. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspb. notified the website operator about its existence...

Information Disclosure

firefox is vulnerable to information disclosure. The vulnerability exists when a user opens a Private Browsing Window and generates a password for a site, then closes the Private Browsing Window but leaves Firefox open. Subsequently, if the user had opened a new Private Browsing Window, revisited...

Samba Releases Security Update for CVE-2020-1472

The Samba Team has released a security update to address a critical vulnerability—CVE-2020-1472—in multiple versions of Samba. This vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to take control of an affected system. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA encourages users and...

The iOS 14 Privacy and Security Features You Should Know

The latest update for your iPhone and iPad will make them safer than ever...

Android 11 — 5 New Security and Privacy Features You Need to Know

After a long wait and months of beta testing, Google last week finally released Android 11, the latest version of the Android mobile operating system—with features offering billions of its users more control over their data security and privacy. Android security is always a hot topic and almost...

Android 11 — 5 New Security and Privacy Features You Need to Know

After a long wait and months of beta testing, Google last week finally released Android 11, the latest version of the Android mobile operating system—with features offering billions of its users more control over their data security and privacy. Android security is always a hot topic and almost...

CISA Releases Emergency Directive on Microsoft Windows Netlogon Remote Protocol

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has released Emergency Directive ED 20-04 addressing a critical vulnerability— CVE-2020-1472—affecting Microsoft Windows Netlogon Remote Protocol. An unauthenticated attacker with network access to a domain controller could exploit this...

USN-4516-1 gnupg2 vulnerability

It was discovered that GnuPG signatures could be forged when the SHA-1 algorithm is being used. This update removes validating signatures based on SHA-1 that were generated after 2019-01-19. In environments where this is still required, a new option --allow-weak-key-signatures can be used to reve...

Charities and the advertising industry: data ecosystems and privacy risks

Data makes the world go round, more often than not via advertising and its tracking mechanisms. Whether you think making money from large volumes of PII to keep the web ticking over is a good thing, or a sleazy data-grab often encouraging terrible ad practices, it’s not going to go away anytime...

Apple Releases Security Updates

Apple has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple products. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA encourages users and administrators to review the Apple...