Side-Channel Attack Allows Remote Listener to ‘Hear’ On-Screen Images

A stealthy side-channel tactic for digital surveillance has been uncovered, which allows an attacker to “hear” on-screen images. According to a team of academic researchers from Columbia University, the University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania and Tel Aviv University, inaudible acoustic...

A week in security (August 20 – August 26)

Last week on Labs, we took a look at insider threats, doubled back on the privacy of search browser extensions, profiled green card scams, revisited Defcon badgelife, and talked about what happens to a user's accounts when they die. Other cybersecurity news There was an archiving error in Twitch...

Recent App Issues Reveal Facebook’s Struggles to Temper Data Privacy Woes

Facebook was hit with a double privacy punch regarding data privacy on Wednesday. First, Facebook acknowledged in a public post that one of the apps on its platform, myPersonality, inappropriately shared 4 million users’ data with researchers. Also on Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal reported...

Can search extensions keep your searches private?

One of the most common things most of us do on the Internet is search, whether we are looking up the price of the latest gadget or we need to find the address of that great restaurant recommended by a friend. The dizzying number of Google search queries per second more than 40,000, on average tel...

Apple Forces Facebook VPN App Out of iOS Store for Stealing Users' Data

Facebook yesterday removed its mobile VPN app called Onavo Protect from the iOS App Store after Apple declared the app violated the iPhone maker's App Store guidelines on data collection. For those who are unaware, Onavo Protect is a Facebook-owned Virtual Private Network VPN app that was primari...

Adobe Releases Security Updates

Adobe has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in Adobe Photoshop CC. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. NCCIC encourages users and administrators to review Adobe Security Bulletin APSB18-28 and apply the necessary updates. This...

FTC Issues Alert on Bitcoin Blackmail Scams

The Federal Trade Commission has released an alert on Bitcoin blackmail scams. In these schemes, scammers threaten victims with public disclosure of their "secret" unless they send a payment in Bitcoin. NCCIC encourages users and administrators to refer to the FTC Alert and a related FBI press...

Apache Releases Security Update for Apache Struts 2

The Apache Software Foundation has released a security update to address a vulnerability in Apache Struts versions 2.3 to 2.3.34 and 2.5 to 2.5.16. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system. NCCIC encourages users and administrators to review Apache...

Google Faces Legal Turmoil After Location Tracking Debacle

Google is under fire from both legal teams and activists after reports emerged that the technology giant tracked customers’ movements, even when they opt out. The company has been slapped by a lawsuit, filed in the federal court last week out of California, alleging that Google is violating both...

Google Sued Over Misleading Users About Location Tracking Feature

Google was in the news last week for a misleading claim that "with Location History off, the places you go are no longer stored," which is not true. Now, the search engine giant is once again in the news after a San Diego man has filed the first lawsuit against Google over this issue. Last week,...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-0501

The mirror:// method implementation in Advanced Package Tool APT 1.6.x before 1.6.4 and 1.7.x before 1.7.0alpha3 mishandles gpg signature verification for the InRelease file of a fallback mirror, aka mirrorfail...

Ghostscript Vulnerability

NCCIC is aware of a Ghostscript vulnerability affecting various vendors. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system. NCCIC encourages users and administrators to review the Vulnerability Note VU332928, apply the necessary workarounds, and refer to vendors f...

Philips Vulnerability Exposes Sensitive Cardiac Patient Information

A vulnerability in the Philips IntelliSpace Cardiovascular ISCV line of medical data management products would allow privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution – opening the door for an attacker to siphon out all kinds of confidential patient information, including medical images and full...

AT&T Faces $224M Legal Challenge Over SIM-Jacking Rings

Cryptocurrency investor and Dogecoin founder Michael Terpin has filed a $223.8 million lawsuit against AT&T, alleging the mobile phone giant turned a blind eye to SIM fraud. Terpin alleges that more than 3 million cryptocurrency tokens worth $24 million were lifted from his digital wallet at an...

New Ways to Track Internet Browsing

Interesting research on web tracking: "Who Left Open the Cookie Jar? A Comprehensive Evaluation of Third-Party Cookie Policies: Abstract: Nowadays, cookies are the most prominent mechanism to identify and authenticate users on the Internet. Although protected by the Same Origin Policy, popular...

Apache Releases Security Updates for Tomcat Native

The Apache Foundation has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in Apache Tomcat Native. A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected server. NCCIC encourages users and administrators to review the Apache Advisory and Tomcat Native Downloads...

AV-Comparatives: Trend Micro Mobile Security for Android Provides 100% Malware Protection for Mobile Users

With the introduction of Android v8.0 Android Oreo in August of 2017, among other OS improvements Google introduced its built-in malware protection for Android call Play Protect dependent on Google Play Services 11 or later. Play Protect checks apps and APK files downloaded from Google Play or...

Speculation Attack Against Intel's SGX

Another speculative-execution attack against Intel's SGX. At a high level, SGX is a new feature in modern Intel CPUs which allows computers to protect users' data even if the entire system falls under the attacker's control. While it was previously believed that SGX is resilient to speculative...

Google Chrome Bug Opens Access to Private Facebook Information

A browser bug in Google Chrome has been discovered that lets bad actors uncover private data stored on Facebook, Google sites and other platforms, by using video and audio HTML tags, and the filtering functions in websites. The bug in question exists in the Blink engine, which is used to power...

Fedora Update for mozilla-privacy-badger FEDORA-2018-bb965553f9

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 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...