Authorities Eye Using Mobile Phone Tracking COVID-19's Spread

Authorities in the United States and Israel are eyeing ways to use mobile-phone and other location-based data to help control the spread of the new coronavirus COVID-19, raising serious privacy concerns about the practice of using and sharing people’s personal data during the time of a global...

Authorities Eye Using Mobile Phone Tracking COVID-19's Spread

Authorities in the United States and Israel are eyeing ways to use mobile-phone and other location-based data to help control the spread of the new coronavirus COVID-19, raising serious privacy concerns about the practice of using and sharing people’s personal data during the time of a global...

Scientific Linux Security Update : firefox on SL7.x x86_64 (20200316)

This update upgrades Firefox to version 68.6.0 ESR. Security Fixes : - Mozilla: Use-after-free when removing data about origins CVE-2020-6805 - Mozilla: BodyStream::OnInputStreamReady was missing protections against state confusion CVE-2020-6806 - Mozilla: Use-after-free in cubeb during stream...

This Stalkerware Delivers Extra-Creepy Features

Researchers are sending up a red flag over the distribution of an aggressive stalkerware app called Monitor Minor. In a report released Monday, researchers said the Android version of the app gives stalkers near absolute control of targeted devices, going so far as allowing them to capture the...

Microsoft Edge Shares Privacy-Busting Telemetry, Research Alleges

Microsoft Edge is one of the least private web browsers — even more so than other popular browsers like Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox — according to academic researchers. According to the analysis, from Douglas Leith with the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College in...

Microsoft Edge Shares Privacy-Busting Telemetry, Research Alleges

Microsoft Edge is one of the least private web browsers — even more so than other popular browsers like Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox — according to academic researchers. According to the analysis, from Douglas Leith with the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College in...

Mozilla: The names of AirPods with personally identifiable information were exposed to websites with camera or microphone permission

The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as: 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...

VMware Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products

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

U.S. Dept Of Defense: Improper Access Controls Allow PII Leak via ████

Summary: Dashboards in ██████████ allow a user to add widgets and obtain large amounts of information to include PII and diagnostic information. Additionally, a user is able to make changes to certain catalogs via these widgets. Description: Impact An adversary can gain access to PII to include...

GHSA-G9RQ-X4FJ-F5HX Remote Code Execution Through Image Uploads in BookStack

Impact A user could upload PHP files through image upload functions, which would allow them to execute code on the host system remotely. They would then have the permissions of the PHP process. This most impacts scenarios where non-trusted users are given permission to upload images in any area o...

Suddenly Teleworking, Securely

So you suddenly have a lot of staff working remotely. Telework is not new and a good percentage of the workforce already does so. But the companies who have a distributed workforce had time to plan for it, and to plan for it securely. A Lot of New Teleworkers All At Once This event can't be treat...

ACLU Sues Over U.S. Airport Facial-Recognition Technology

The American Civil Liberties Union ACLU has filed suit the Department of Homeland Security DHS over its use of facial recognition technology in airports, decrying the government’s “extraordinarily dangerous path” to normalize facial surveillance as well as its secrecy in making specific details o...

ACLU Sues Over U.S. Airport Facial-Recognition Technology

The American Civil Liberties Union ACLU has filed suit the Department of Homeland Security DHS over its use of facial recognition technology in airports, decrying the government’s “extraordinarily dangerous path” to normalize facial surveillance as well as its secrecy in making specific details o...

The EARN-IT Act

Prepare for another attack on encryption in the U.S. The EARN-IT Act purports to be about protecting children from predation, but it's really about forcing the tech companies to break their encryption schemes: The EARN IT Act would create a "National Commission on Online Child Sexual Exploitation...

The Whisper Secret-Sharing App Exposed Locations

This is a big deal: Whisper, the secret-sharing app that called itself the "safest place on the Internet," left years of users' most intimate confessions exposed on the Web tied to their age, location and other details, raising alarm among cybersecurity researchers that users could have been...

Introduction to Bluetooth Low Energy

Bluetooth Low Energy BLE is used by almost everyone in our everyday lives, from wireless headphones, to car stereos, computer keyboards and mice, and other everyday items. Even though this standard is popular there seems a general lack of understanding of how it works and what certain terms mean...

Microsoft Releases Out-of-Band Security Updates for SMB RCE Vulnerability

Microsoft has released out-of-band security updates to address a remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2020-0796 in Microsoft Server Message Block 3.1.1 SMBv3. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security...

Microsoft Server Message Block RCE Vulnerability

Microsoft has released a security advisory to address a remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2020-0796 in Microsoft Server Message Block 3.1.1 SMBv3. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system. SMB is a network file-sharing protocol that allows clien...

Firefox Bug Opens iPhone AirPods to Third-Party Snooping

Five high-severity bugs were fixed in the Firefox web browser with the release of version 74 by the Mozilla Foundation on Tuesday. In addition, Mozilla reported a quirky moderate-severity flaw that allows hackers to target iPhone users and collect data tied to connected AirPods, if in use. In...

Microsoft Visual Studio Spoofing Vulnerability

A spoofing vulnerability exists in Microsoft Visual Studio as it includes a reply URL that is not secured by SSL. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could compromise the access tokens, exposing security and privacy risks. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would nee...