CVE-2020-9775

CVE-2020-9775 affects Safari on iOS/iPadOS; root cause: incorrect handling of tabs displaying picture-in-picture video, leading to potentially exposing a user’s private browsing activity to Screen Time. Apple fixed this in iOS 13.4 and iPadOS 13.4 via improved state handling; remediation is to up...

The Zoom Privacy Backlash Is Only Getting Started

A class action lawsuit. Rampant zoombombing. And as of today, two new zero-day vulnerabilities...

Google Releases Security Updates for Chrome

Google has released Chrome version 80.0.3987.162 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...

Zoom Scrutinized As Security Woes Mount

The New York attorney general, Letitia James, is demanding more information about how Zoom secures user data. The inquiry comes amidst mounting public scrutiny of the web conferencing platform’s data privacy and security policies. In a Monday letter, James questioned whether Zoom’s security...

Covid-19 Poll Results: One in Four Prioritize Health Over Privacy

One in four respondents to a Threatpost reader poll said they were okay with sacrificing a portion of their personal privacy in exchange for some form of cellphone tracking that could – in theory – reduce coronavirus infection rates and save lives. While the majority of Threatpost readers were...

Personal details & phone numbers of 42M Iranians sold on a hacking forum

By Waqas Iranians, unfortunately, have been hit hard by Coronavirus and the last thing they would like to have is getting their privacy breached. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Personal details & phone numbers of 42M Iranians sold on a hacking forum...

Zoom Kills iOS App’s Data-Sharing Facebook Feature

Zoom has removed a feature in its iOS web conferencing app that was sharing analytics data with Facebook, after a report revealing the practice sparked outrage. According to the Motherboard report last week that originally disclosed the privacy issue, the transferred information included data on...

Lock and Code S1Ep3: Dishing on data privacy with Adam Kujawa

This week on Lock and Code, we discuss the top security headlines generated right here on Labs and around the Internet. In addition, we talk to Adam Kujawa, a director of Malwarebytes Labs, about the state of data privacy today, including how users and businesses can protect sensitive information...

Privacy vs. Surveillance in the Age of COVID-19

The trade-offs are changing: As countries around the world race to contain the pandemic, many are deploying digital surveillance tools as a means to exert social control, even turning security agency technologies on their own civilians. Health and law enforcement authorities are understandably...

espnplayer.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-1128434 Security Researcher Implosion Helped patch 1643 vulnerabilities Received 7 Coordinated Disclosure badges Received 29 recommendations , a holder of 7 badges for responsible and coordinated disclosure, found a security vulnerability affecting espnplayer.com website a...

Fedora: Security Advisory for tor (FEDORA-2020-9e16f7f40c)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Fedora: Security Advisory for tor (FEDORA-2020-d09f0ce68d)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

How To Keep Your Router And WiFi Safe From Hackers

By Waqas Just yesterday it was reported that hackers have been using vulnerable and exposed routers to redirect users to malicious COVID-19 related app aiming at your personal data. Now... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How To Keep Your Router And WiFi Safe From Hackers...

Apple Unpatched VPN Bypass Bug Impacts iOS 13, Warn Researchers

An unpatched bug in the latest version of Apple’s iOS is blocking virtual private network VPN applications from cloaking some private data transmitted between a device and the servers they are requesting data from. While the bug remains unpatched, Apple is suggesting steps users can take to reduc...

[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: tor-0.4.2.7-1.fc31

The Tor network is a group of volunteer-operated servers that allows people to improve their privacy and security on the Internet. Tor's users employ this network by connecting through a series of virtual tunnels rather than makin g a direct connection, thus allowing both organizations and...

[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: tor-0.4.2.7-1.fc30

The Tor network is a group of volunteer-operated servers that allows people to improve their privacy and security on the Internet. Tor's users employ this network by connecting through a series of virtual tunnels rather than makin g a direct connection, thus allowing both organizations and...

[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: tor-0.4.2.7-1.fc32

The Tor network is a group of volunteer-operated servers that allows people to improve their privacy and security on the Internet. Tor's users employ this network by connecting through a series of virtual tunnels rather than makin g a direct connection, thus allowing both organizations and...

CVE-2020-6812

CVE-2020-6812: Affected software includes Thunderbird

CVE-2020-6812

The first time AirPods are connected to an iPhone, they become named after the user's name by default e.g. Jane Doe's AirPods. Websites with camera or microphone permission are able to enumerate device names, disclosing the user's name. To resolve this issue, Firefox added a special case that...

Consumerization: a better way to answer cybersecurity challenges

A version of this article originally appeared in Forbes on February 12, 2020. Consumerization: The specific impact that consumer-originated technologies can have on enterprises. Gartner More and more, enterprises are coming to understand that they need to adopt the agile processes and product...