Becoming a Tech Policy Activist

Carolyn McCarthy gave an excellent TEDx talk about becoming a tech policy activist. It's a powerful call for public-interest technologists...

tech-1.spruz.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-1029474 Security Researcher Gh05tPT Helped patch 6901 vulnerabilities Received 10 Coordinated Disclosure badges Received 48 recommendations , a holder of 10 badges for responsible and coordinated disclosure, found a security vulnerability affecting tech-1.spruz.com website...

How To Be An Informed Skeptic About Security Predictions

It doesn’t take a wily prediction to see that the cycles of tech procurement and planning are increasingly compressed. In enterprise IT, the two largest forces at play are business changes and technology changes. These two major forces are somewhat independent; a lot of tech change happened durin...

CVE-2019-15799

An issue was discovered on Zyxel GS1900 devices with firmware before 2.50AAHH.0C0. User accounts created through the web interface of the device, when given non-admin level privileges, have the same level of privileged access as administrators when connecting to the device via SSH while their...

CVE-2019-15799: Improper Privilege Management

An issue was discovered on Zyxel GS1900 devices with firmware before 2.50AAHH.0C0. User accounts created through the web interface of the device, when given non-admin level privileges, have the same level of privileged access as administrators when connecting to the device via SSH while their...

PT-2019-4110

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Zyxel GS1900 devices with firmware before 2.50AAHH.0C0 Description An issue allows user accounts with non-admin level privileges to have the same level of privileged access as administrators when connecting to the device via SSH. This enables...

Rogue TrendMicro Employee Sold Customer Data to Tech Support Scammers

Do you always uncomfortable trusting companies with your data? If so, you're not alone. While companies do much to protect themselves from external threats, insiders always pose the highest risk to a company's data. Unfortunately, when we say companies can't eliminate insider threat completely,...

ACCESS Act might improve data privacy through interoperability

Data privacy is back in Congressional lawmakers’ sights, as a new, legislative proposal focuses not on data collection, storage, and selling, but on the idea that Americans should be able to more easily pack up their user data and take it to a competing service—perhaps one that better respects...

Scammers Are Exploiting a Firefox Bug to Freeze Your Browser

Fraudulent tech-support sites are causing the browser to lock up and display a disturbing message. Force quitting is the only way out...

Report: The Government and Tech Need to Cooperate on AI

It also warns that AI-enhanced national security apparatus like autonomous weapons and surveillance systems will raise ethical questions...

TikTok, Under Scrutiny, Distances Itself From China

Three senators have called for an investigation into the social media app, which is owned by the Chinese tech giant ByteDance...

ThreatList: Google's Advertising Network Dominates Global Data Collection

When it comes to data collection, Google’s combined arsenal of advertising tools and services continue to help it dominate at a global level. Close behind are AOL Advertising, Moat and AppNexus. Each are singled out by researchers in new report that brings to mind the privacy-busting quote, “If...

Tech That Makes a Difference: Sustainability

As the Internet grows, so does energy usage. As a result, all large tech organizations have a responsibility to monitor and improve their impact on the environment. At Akamai, we are well aware of the impact we can have, both...

Execs Could Face Jail Time For Privacy Violations

A new data privacy bill threatens large tech firms, like Facebook, with tough penalties – including monetary fines and up to 20 years of jail time for executives – if they violate user privacy policies. The “Mind Your Own Business Act,” proposed by Sen. Ron Wyden D-Ore. on Thursday, gives the...

Apple's Good Intentions on Privacy Stop at China's Borders

As pro-democracy protests continue in Hong Kong, the tech giant’s troubling relationship with an authoritarian regime has come into focus...

Fin7 Cybergang Retools With New Malicious Code

The Fin7 cybercrime group has ramped up its offensive capabilities by adding new malicious code to its malware arsenal. Researchers said that this is evidence that Fin7 is still a growing threat despite the arrest of several Fin7 members in 2018. The notorious group has adopted a new dropper samp...

China's Sway Over Tech Companies Tested with Apple, Blizzard

At least two American tech companies, Apple and gaming giant Blizzard, have come under fire – from different quarters – for wading into waters surrounding the Hong Kong protests that have been ongoing since June. The situation is shaping up to be a test for the American tech sector’s commitment t...

Overview of the Marsh-Microsoft 2019 Global Cyber Risk Perception survey results

Technology is dramatically transforming the global business environment, with continual advances in areas ranging from artificial intelligence AI and the Internet of Things IoT to data availability and blockchain. The speed at which digital technologies evolve and disrupt traditional business...

Operational resilience begins with your commitment to and investment in cyber resilience

Operational resilience cannot be achieved without a true commitment to and investment in cyber resilience. Global organizations need to reach the state where their core operations and services won’t be disrupted by geopolitical or socioeconomic events, natural disasters, and cyber events if they...

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

weison-tech/yii2-rbac is vulnerable to cross-site scripting XSS. The attack is possible because it does not sanitize a name filed to /contact.html via protected\core\modules\home\models\Contact.php , allowing an attacker to inject arbitrary script through it...