Collecting and Selling Mobile Phone Location Data

The Wall Street Journal has an article about a company called Anomaly Six LLC that has an SDK that's used by "more than 500 mobile applications." Through that SDK, the company collects location data from users, which it then sells. Anomaly Six is a federal contractor that provides...

Google Releases Security Updates for Chrome

Google has released Chrome version 84.0.4147.125 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 to review the...

Microsoft Releases August 2020 Security Updates

Microsoft has released updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft software. 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...

Adobe Releases Security Updates

Adobe has released security updates to address vulnerabilities affecting Adobe Acrobat, Reader, and Lightroom. 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 administrato...

CIS Releases 2019 Year in Review

The Center for Internet Security CIS has released its 2019 Year in Review. CIS is home to the Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center MS-ISAC, a Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA partner focused on cyber threat prevention, protection, response, and recovery for U.S...

Microsoft Addresses RCE and Spoofing Vulnerabilities Under Active Exploitation

Microsoft has released security updates to address two vulnerabilities—CVE-2020-1380 and CVE-2020-1464—that are being actively exploited. CVE-2020-1380 is a remote code execution vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer 11, and CVE-2020-1464 is a spoofing vulnerability that affects multiple...

Google Fixes Mysterious Audio Recording Blip in Smart Speakers

After Google Home users started receiving mysterious alerts when their fire alarms went off or their plates smashed in their homes, Google acknowledged that it accidentally rolled out a feature causing the smart devices to record sounds without the voice prompt. Reports of the privacy faux pas...

DP3T-Backend-SDK Data Forgery Issue Vulnerability

DP3T-Backend-SDK is a backend implementation of DP3T Decentralized Privacy Preserving Neighborhood Tracking. A security vulnerability exists in DP3T-Backend-SDK versions prior to 1.1.1. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to bypass signature checking...

NSA Releases Guidance on Limiting Location Data Exposure

The National Security Agency NSA has released an information sheet with guidance on how to limit location data exposure for National Security System NSS / Department of Defense DoD system users, as well as the general public. NSA outlines mobile device geolocation services and provides...

Data Accountability and Transparency Act of 2020 looks beyond consent

In the United States, data privacy is hard work—particularly for the American people. But one US Senator believes it shouldn’t have to be. In June, Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio released a discussion draft of a new data privacy bill to improve Americans’ data privacy rights and their...

NSA Warns Smartphones Leak Location Data

Mobile devices expose location data in more ways than most people know, and turning off services such as Find My Phone, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth can help mitigate tracking, but are no silver bullet that prevents a third party from tracking users. That’s advice shared by U.S. top spy division, the...

iOS 14’s Best Privacy Feature? Catching Data-Grabbing Apps

Apple's new operating system hasn't been released to the public yet, but its new permission notifications are already shaming developers into cleaning up their acts...

Twitter Could Face $250M FTC Fine Over Improper Data Use

Twitter may be facing a Federal Trade Commission FTC fine of up to $250 million, after the social media giant last year revealed the improper use of users’ email addresses and phone numbers. In October 2019, Twitter acknowledged that user phone numbers and email addresses gathered for security...

openSUSE Security Update : claws-mail (openSUSE-2020-1139)

This update for claws-mail fixes the following issues : - Update to 3.17.6 : - It is now possible to 'Inherit Folder properties and processing rules from parent folder' when creating new folders with the move message and copy message dialogues. - A Phishing warning is now shown when copying a...

Incognito Mode May Not Work the Way You Think It Does

Every browser has a private mode—but the privacy it offers has a limit...

Flaws in OkCupid app could have exposed millions of user data to hackers

By Sudais Asif OkCupid app known as a popular dating platform has over 50 million registered users. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Flaws in OkCupid app could have exposed millions of user data to hackers...

CVE-2020-15957

An issue was discovered in DP3T-Backend-SDK before 1.1.1 for Decentralised Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing DP3T. When it is configured to check JWT before uploading/publishing keys, it is possible to skip the signature check by providing a JWT token with alg=none...

CVE-2020-15957

An issue was discovered in DP3T-Backend-SDK before 1.1.1 for Decentralised Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing DP3T. When it is configured to check JWT before uploading/publishing keys, it is possible to skip the signature check by providing a JWT token with alg=none...

Rockset: S3 bucket data at http://rockset-support.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ reveals user addresses based on latitudes and longitudes.

At the s3 bucket located at http://rockset-support.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/, a file was found called data.json.15that contains of interest latitudes and latitudes of user addresses. F930036 Steps to reproduce: 1, Download the file in the bucket with the command: aws s3 sync s3://rockset-suppor...

Cisco Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products

Cisco has released security updates to address vulnerabilities affecting multiple products. An unauthenticated, 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...