Another California Data Privacy Law

The California Consumer Privacy Act is a lesson in missed opportunities. It was passed in haste, to stop a ballot initiative that would have been even more restrictive: In September 2017, Alastair Mactaggart and Mary Ross proposed a statewide ballot initiative entitled the "California Consumer...

VMware Publishes Workarounds for Vulnerabilities in vRealize Operations Manager

VMware has published workarounds to address unpatched vulnerabilities in vRealize Operations Manager vROps. A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA encourages users and administrators to...

How to Set Your Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to Control Who Sees What

Pick who sees your tweets, posts, and stories—and choose what you want to see, too...

teamster.app GDPR PII Exposure vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-1158126 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...

play.google.com GDPR PII Exposure vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-1157845 Security Researcher moonbaba Helped patch 0 vulnerabilities Received 0 Coordinated Disclosure badges , found a security vulnerability affecting play.google.com website and its users. Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the I...

www1.oab.org.br GDPR PII Exposure vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-1157778 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...

GHSA-JJJR-3JCW-F8V6 Potential Observable Timing Discrepancy in Wagtail

Impact A potential timing attack exists on pages or documents that have been protected with a shared password through Wagtail's "Privacy" controls. This password check is performed through a character-by-character string comparison, and so an attacker who is able to measure the time taken by this...

Potential Observable Timing Discrepancy in Wagtail

Impact A potential timing attack exists on pages or documents that have been protected with a shared password through Wagtail's "Privacy" controls. This password check is performed through a character-by-character string comparison, and so an attacker who is able to measure the time taken by this...

Zoom Beefs Up End-to-End Encryption to Thwart 'Zoombombers'

Video calling platform Zoom is boosting its security profile via the acquisition of a small startup called Keybase. The 25-person, New York-based company will provide more robust encryption for Zoom calls on paid subscriptions by implementing an end-to-end architecture. “Logged-in users will...

Snapchat: CreatorID leaked from public content posted to SnapMaps

TL;DR - the Snap Map media responses unnecessarily return a creatorId. The creator's Snap username cannot be immediately derived from creatorId, but users can use the creatorId to correlate multiple public snaps with that creator. The impact is limited by the fact that all Our Story Snaps that...

FreeBSD : Wagtail -- potential timing attack vulnerability (d5fead4f-8efa-11ea-a5c8-08002728f74c)

Wagtail release notes : CVE-2020-11037: Potential timing attack on password-protected private pages This release addresses a potential timing attack on pages or documents that have been protected with a shared password through Wagtail's 'Privacy' controls. This password check is performed through...

Housemates. The new Red Team?

You have the VPN set up, you have 2FA, you have a good enforced password policy, firewalls are in place, you even managed to squeeze in some remote training to make employees more aware of potential phishing. You stop, breathe a sigh of relief, and then think… I've no idea who my employees live...

What are the hidden dangers of using a free VPN?

By Waqas Using a free VPN? Here's why you should not... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: What are the hidden dangers of using a free VPN?...

Google Releases Security Updates for Chrome 

Google has released Chrome version 81.0.4044.138 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...

Mozilla Releases Security Updates for Firefox and Firefox ESR 

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. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA encourages users and administrators to review the...

Change This Browser Setting to Stop Xiaomi from Spying On Your Incognito Activities

If you own a Xiaomi smartphone or have installed the Mi browser app on any of your other brand Android device, you should enable a newly introduced privacy setting immediately to prevent the company from spying on your online activities. The smartphone maker has begun rolling out an update to its...

Change This Browser Setting to Stop Xiaomi from Spying On Your Incognito Activities

If you own a Xiaomi smartphone or have installed the Mi browser app on any of your other brand Android device, you should enable a newly introduced privacy setting immediately to prevent the company from spying on your online activities. The smartphone maker has begun rolling out an update to its...

CVE-2020-8792

The OKLOK 3.1.1 mobile companion app for Fingerprint Bluetooth Padlock FB50 2.3 has an information-exposure issue. In the mobile app, an attempt to add an already-bound lock by its barcode reveals the email address of the account to which the lock is bound, as well as the name of the lock. Valid...

Wagtail -- potential timing attack vulnerability

Wagtail release notes: CVE-2020-11037: Potential timing attack on password-protected private pages This release addresses a potential timing attack on pages or documents that have been protected with a shared password through Wagtail's "Privacy" controls. This password check is performed through ...

Me on COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps

I was quoted in BuzzFeed: "My problem with contact tracing apps is that they have absolutely no value," Bruce Schneier, a privacy expert and fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, told BuzzFeed News. "I'm not even talking about the privacy concerns, I mea...