Black Hat: LeapFrog Tablet Flaws Let Attackers Track, Message Kids

LAS VEGAS – Serious vulnerabilities have been disclosed in LeapFrog’s tablet for kids, the LeapPad Ultimate, once again throwing child data privacy into the spotlight. The LeapPad Ultimate is a rugged tablet made by LeapFrog that targets children with an array of education, game and eBook apps...

E3 Website Leaks Private Addresses for Thousands of Journalists

A YouTube content creator said that she has found a spreadsheet with the names and addresses – including private residences – of more than 2,000 journalists and content creators on the popular Electronic Entertainment Expo E3 trade show’s website. E3 2019, which took place this year June 11 to 13...

MyEtherWallet: Local Storage Custom Node Credentials Leak

Summary Credentials for a custom node are stored in plain text inside Local Storage on the user's machine. If this node is configured in a certain way this could lead to the theft of any funds in accounts attached to this node, by a local attacker. And if not configured this way, an attacker coul...

VMware Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products

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

'Opt Out' Is Useless. Let People Opt In

It's not so crazy to want Big Tech to ask for your data—and conversations with AI assistants—before they take it...

Critical Bug in Android Antivirus Exposes Address Books

A slew of popular free Android antivirus apps in recent testing proved to have security holes and privacy issues – including a critical vulnerability that exposes user’s address books, and another serious flaw that enables attackers to turn off antivirus protection entirely. According to an...

Apple Suspends Siri Program After Privacy Backlash

Apple is suspending a program that lets contractors listen in on Siri voice recordings after facing a rain of backlash regarding the privacy implications of the program. The suspension comes after a report in The Guardian last week outlining how contractors regularly listen to intimate voice...

How Privacy Laws Hurt Defendants

Rebecca Wexler has an interesting op-ed about an inadvertent harm that privacy laws can cause: while law enforcement can often access third-party data to aid in prosecution, the accused don't have the same level of access to aid in their defense: The proposed privacy laws would make this situatio...

Facebook Plans on Backdooring WhatsApp

This article points out that Facebook's planned content moderation scheme will result in an encryption backdoor into WhatsApp: In Facebook's vision, the actual end-to-end encryption client itself such as WhatsApp will include embedded content moderation and blacklist filtering algorithms. These...

Cisco Releases Security Updates

Cisco has released security updates to address a vulnerability in Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA encourages users and administrators to review th...

FTC Releases Alert on the Capital One Data Breach

The Federal Trade Commission FTC has released an alert on the Capital One data breach that exposed the personal information of 106 million Capital One credit card customers and applicants. FTC reminds users to check and monitor their credit report to protect against identify theft and to be aware...

NIST Publishes Multifactor Authentication Practice Guide

The National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence NCCoE has published NIST Cybersecurity Practice Guide: Multifactor Authentication for E-Commerce. The guide provides e-commerce organizations multifactor authentication MFA protection methods they...

Guardian Firewall iOS App Automatically Blocks the Trackers on Your Phone

The Guardian Firewall app gives iOS users a reprieve from the scourge of online trackers...

CIS Releases Newsletter on Cleaning Up Data and Devices

The Center for Internet Security CIS July Newsletter reminds users to properly dispose of old or unused data and devices. Without careful management of online accounts, cloud storage, physical storage, and electronic devices, users could inadvertently disclose sensitive information that can be...

Google Releases Security Updates for Chrome

Google has released Chrome version 76.0.3809.87 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This version addresses multiple 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 revie...

CVE-2019-5449

A missing check in the Nextcloud Server prior to version 15.0.1 causes leaking of calendar event names when adding or modifying confidential or private events...

Design/Logic Flaw

A missing check in the Nextcloud Server prior to version 15.0.1 causes leaking of calendar event names when adding or modifying confidential or private events...

CVE-2019-5449

CVE-2019-5449 affects Nextcloud Server prior to 15.0.1. A missing check allows leaking calendar event names when adding or modifying confidential or private events. Multiple connected sources confirm an information disclosure vulnerability in Nextcloud Server before 15.0.1. Impact is information ...

Mobile Menace Monday: Dark Android Q rises

Android Q, the upcoming 10th major release of the Android mobile operating system, was developed by Google with three major themes in mind: innovation, security, and privacy. Today, we are going to focus mostly on security and privacy, although there are still many potential changes and updates o...

A week in security (July 22 – 28)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we offered an extensive analysis into the Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 investigation, updated users on the newest feature set to AdwCleaner 7.4.0 it now detects pre-installed software, and provided a deep dive into Phobos ransomware. We also broke down the latest...