IRS: Selfies Now Optional, Biometric Data to Be Deleted

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service IRS said Monday that taxpayers are no longer required to provide facial scans to create an account online at irs.gov. In lieu of providing biometric data, taxpayers can now opt for a live video interview with ID.me, the privately-held Virginia company that runs t...

Facebook sued for siphoning facial recognition data without consent

Ken Paxton, the Attorney General of Texas, recently filed a lawsuit against Facebooks parent company, Meta, for harvesting the facial recognition data of millions of Texan residents—for a decade. Paxton filed the lawsuit on Monday in the states Harrison County District Court. The suit contains...

Facebook Agrees to Pay $90 Million to Settle Decade-Old Privacy Violation Case

Meta Platforms has agreed to pay $90 million to settle a lawsuit over the company's use of cookies to allegedly track Facebook users' internet activity even after they had logged off from the platform. In addition, the social media company will be required to delete all of the data it illegally...

IRS abandons facial recognition plans for online services

If you dislike the use of facial recognition technology in relation to essential services, youre in luck. One such proposition has been removed. Last year, the IRS announced it would be using facial recognition selfies to confirm identity. If you wanted the convenience of making payments online,...

Expanding the Microsoft Researcher Recognition Program

The Microsoft Researcher Recognition Program offers public thanks and recognition to security researchers who help protect our customers through discovering and sharing security vulnerabilities under Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure. Today, we are expanding the program to recognize more...

Expanding the Microsoft Researcher Recognition Program

The Microsoft Researcher Recognition Program offers public thanks and recognition to security researchers who help protect our customers through discovering and sharing security vulnerabilities under Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure. Today, we are expanding the program to recognize more...

Expanding the Microsoft Researcher Recognition Program

The Microsoft Researcher Recognition Program offers public thanks and recognition to security researchers who help protect our customers through discovering and sharing security vulnerabilities under Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure. Today, we are expanding the program to recognize more...

Congratulations to the Top MSRC 2021 Q4 Security Researchers!

Congratulations to all the researchers recognized in this quarter’s Microsoft Researcher Recognition Program leaderboard! Thank you to everyone for your hard work and continued partnership to secure customers. The top three researchers of the 2021 Q4 Security Researcher Leaderboard are: rezer0dai...

About the security content of Safari 15.3

About the security content of Safari 15.3 This document describes the security content of Safari 15.3. About Apple security updates For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are available...

A Quick Look at CES 2022

The first thing I noticed about CES this year was COVID’s impact on the event, which was more than just attendance size. A large amount of the technology focused on sanitation, everything from using light to sanitize surfaces on point-of-sale systems to hand-washing stations. When I attend events...

The vulnerability in the fingerprint recognition function of Google Chrome allows a perpetrator to execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability of the fingerprint recognition function in Google Chrome is caused by a buffer overflow in the dynamic memory. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code using a specially created web page...

EXNESS: Verification process done using different documents without corresponding to user information / User information can be changed after verification

A business logic flaw in the Exness trading platform allowed a verified user to change their profile information Name, DoB, and Address after identity verification. Additionally, a user could verify their account with official documents that did not correspond to their provided information. This...

Security update for chromium (important)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for chromium Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:1632-1 Rating: important References: 1192310 1192734 1193519 1193713 Cross-References: CVE-2021-38005 CVE-2021-38006 CVE-2021-38007 CVE-2021-38008 CVE-2021-38009 CVE-2021-38010 CVE-2021-38011 CVE-2021-38012...

CVE-2021-38013

Heap buffer overflow in fingerprint recognition in Google Chrome on ChromeOS prior to 96.0.4664.45 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised a WebUI renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page...

DEBIAN-CVE-2021-38013

Heap buffer overflow in fingerprint recognition in Google Chrome on ChromeOS prior to 96.0.4664.45 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised a WebUI renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page...

Heap overflow

Heap buffer overflow in fingerprint recognition in Google Chrome on ChromeOS prior to 96.0.4664.45 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised a WebUI renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page...

CVE-2021-38013

Heap buffer overflow in fingerprint recognition in Google Chrome on ChromeOS prior to 96.0.4664.45 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised a WebUI renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page...

UBUNTU-CVE-2021-38013

Heap buffer overflow in fingerprint recognition in Google Chrome on ChromeOS prior to 96.0.4664.45 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised a WebUI renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page...

CVE-2021-38013

CVE-2021-38013 : Heap buffer overflow in the fingerprint recognition component of the Chromium engine (Chrome/ChromeOS) before version 96.0.4664.45 allows a remote attacker who can reach a WebUI renderer to potentially escape the sandbox via a crafted HTML page. Multiple vendor advisories confirm...

CVE-2021-38013

Heap buffer overflow in fingerprint recognition in Google Chrome on ChromeOS prior to 96.0.4664.45 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised a WebUI renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page...