CVE-2018-20439

Technicolor DPC3928SL D3928SL-PSIP-13-A010-c3420r55105-170214a devices allow remote attackers to discover Wi-Fi credentials via iso.3.6.1.4.1.4413.2.2.2.1.5.4.1.14.1.3.10001 and 1.3.6.1.4.1.4413.2.2.2.1.18.1.2.3.4.1.2.10001 SNMP requests...

San Diego School District Data Breach Hits 500k Students

A phishing attack against California’s San Diego Unified School District has led to hackers scooping up Social Security numbers and addresses of more than 500,000 students and staff. The district became aware of the breach Oct. 2018. The actual breach occurred between January 2001 and November...

2018: A Banner Year for Breaches

Where to start? In 2018 the mantra became “another day, another data breach.” As a result, consumers and researchers alike are feeling “breach fatigue” and getting a bit numb to the headline. But the reality is, cybercriminals are going after personal information, credit card info and passwords...

GnuPG Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

GnuPG GNU Privacy Guard is a suite of open source encryption software developed by the GNU Project under the GNU General Public License. The software supports public key, symmetric encryption, hashing and other algorithms. dirmngr is one of the servers used to manage and download OpenPGP and X.50...

Smart speakers: Christmas treat or lump of coal?

Christmas is nearly upon us, and thoughts are perhaps turning to various digital presents of a “smart” nature. Home security, hubs, speakers, cameras, and mashups of all of those and more besides. With regards to speakers, the most immediate pieces of your home are theoretically at your beck and...

Telegram Android Secret Chats Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Summary An exploitable information disclosure vulnerability exists in the “Secret Chats” functionality of the Telegram Android messaging application version 4.9.0. The “Secret Chats” functionality allows a user to delete all traces of a chat, either by using a time trigger or by direct request...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1000858

GnuPG version 2.1.12 - 2.2.11 contains a Cross ite Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability in dirmngr that can result in Attacker controlled CSRF, Information Disclosure, DoS. This attack appear to be exploitable via Victim must perform a WKD request, e.g. enter an email address in the composer window...

CVE-2018-1000852

FreeRDP FreeRDP 2.0.0-rc3 released version before commit 205c612820dac644d665b5bb1cdf437dc5ca01e3 contains a Other/Unknown vulnerability in channels/drdynvc/client/drdynvcmain.c, drdynvcprocesscapabilityrequest that can result in The RDP server can read the client's memory.. This attack appear to...

Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person

UPDATE Amazon inadvertently sent 1,700 audio files containing recordings of Alexa interactions by a customer to a random person – and after a newspaper investigation exposed the snafu, characterized it as a “mishap” that came down to one employee’s mistake. In August, an Amazon customer in German...

CVE-2018-1000815

Brave Software Inc. Brave version version 0.22.810 to 0.24.0 contains a Other/Unknown vulnerability in function ContentSettingsObserver::AllowScript in contentsettingsobserver.cc that can result in Websites can run inline JavaScript even if script is blocked, making attackers easier to track user...

CVE-2018-1000815

Brave 0.22.810–0.24.0 contains a vulnerability in ContentSettingsObserver::AllowScript() that could allow inline JavaScript to run even when blocked. Impact is user tracking risk when visiting a crafted site. The issue is fixed in Brave 0.25.2. Exploitation details are not provided in the availab...

Facebook Admits Giving Partners Access to Messages

UPDATE Facebook has admitted that it dealt several messaging partnerships with tech giants, giving them read, write and delete access for Facebook messages. The confirmation comes on the heels of a bombshell New York Times article, Tuesday, which leveraged internal documents to show that Facebook...

Facebook’s Rough History of Failed User Revolts

Outraged over the latest Facebook privacy flap, half of users polled Tuesday promise to un-friend the social network. We have heard this refrain before. It seems almost weekly now some new dirt about the social media giant’s misuse of consumer data is revealed. Recently, there was the collection ...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1000858

GnuPG version 2.1.12 - 2.2.11 contains a Cross ite Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability in dirmngr that can result in Attacker controlled CSRF, Information Disclosure, DoS. This attack appear to be exploitable via Victim must perform a WKD request, e.g. enter an email address in the composer window...

Facebook gave Amazon, Netflix, Spotify & others access to private user data

By Waqas Facebook allowed Netflix, Spotify, Amazon, Microsoft, Yandex and Royal Bank of Canada unprecedented access to its users' private data. The social media giant Facebook has been making headlines for all the wrong reasons lately. Now, according to reports, Facebook allowed video streaming...

Facebook Fights Back on Secret Data-Sharing Partnerships

UPDATE Facebook is hitting back after a new report on Tuesday said that the company struck broad data-sharing partnerships with more than 150 companies, including Apple, Amazon and Netflix, exempting them from its normal data privacy terms and conditions. An exhaustive investigation in the New Yo...

Mayday! NASA Warns Employees of Personal Information Breach

Another day, another data breach. This time it's the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA NASA today confirmed a data breach that may have compromised personal information of some of its current and former employees after at least one of the agency's servers was hacked...

Cisco Releases Security Updates

Cisco has released security updates to address a vulnerability in Adaptive Security Appliance. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system. The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center NCCIC, part of the Cybersecurity and...

A Chief Security Concern for Executive Teams

Virtually all companies like to say they take their customers' privacy and security seriously, make it a top priority, blah blah. But you'd be forgiven if you couldn't tell this by studying the executive leadership page of each company's Web site. That's because very few of the world's biggest...

Twitter Draws Data Privacy Concerns with Two New Bugs

Two recently-patched flaws in Twitter’s platform have reignited concerns about user data-privacy issues. On Monday, the social-media giant revealed a hole that accidentally enabled bad actors to pull the country codes of accounts’ phone numbers – and revealed that several IP addresses located in...