Cold War Analogies are Warping Tech Policy

Opinion: Politicians and pundits' fixation with flawed Cold War metaphors have produced overly combative policies on emerging tech...

Google Wants to Help Tech Companies Know Less About You

By releasing its homegrown differential privacy tool, Google will make it easier for any company to boost its privacy bona fides...

CB TAU Threat Intelligence Notification: State-Sponsored Espionage Group Targeting Multiple Verticals with ‘Crosswalk’

FireEye recently reported on APT41, a Chinese state-sponsored espionage group. The group has been documented as targeting healthcare, high-tech, and telecommunications companies for traditional corporate espionage purposes. Additionally this group has also targeted companies in the video game...

Big Tech Needs to Use Hazardous Materials Warnings

Opinion: Tech users don’t have time to read novel-length terms of service. Give them a danger icon that tells them their personal risk...

'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...

Diversity of Thought in Tech

At Akamai, we believe innovation is only possible when the various viewpoints and experiences of a collective, culminate to make a great idea. It is the variety of these ideas which is important. Why does diversity of thought matter? When...

Changing California’s privacy law: A snapshot at the support and opposition

This month, the corporate-backed, legislative battle against California privacy met a blockade, as one Senate committee voted down and negotiated changes to several bills that, as originally written, could have weakened the state’s data privacy law, the California Consumer Privacy Act. Though the...

Facebook's Ex-Security Chief Details His 'Observatory' for Internet Abuse

Alex Stamos' Stanford-based project will try to persuade tech firms to offer academics access to massive troves of user data...

In Conversation: It's Never Too Late

There can be barriers to pursuing a career in tech. For many people, the journey isn't straightforward. Many of our Akamai employees have diverse backgrounds and have overcome obstacles to pursue their dream career. Often, the way forward into a...

Hi, honey. It’s mom. My phone is acting funny again.

Whether it’s setting up access to a Netflix account on a smart TV or enabling personal email on an iPhone, some people—of all ages—have a hard time figuring out user-friendly technology. However, often times it's older generations that have to turn to their progeny for everything from uploading...

Privacy Experts: Facebook's $5B Fine Unlikely to Do Much

The $5 billion fine that the Federal Trade Commission has slapped on Facebook for privacy violations may be the largest ever levied by the agency, but it’s being derided as “chump change” and ineffective by lawmakers and privacy analysts. The settlement, reported Friday evening, stems from...

SQL Injection Vulnerability in the Login Interface of BodaTech Enterprise Website Management System

Liaocheng Boda Network Technology Co., Ltd. is mainly engaged in developing commercial websites. SQL injection vulnerability exists in the login interface of Boda's enterprise website management system, which can be exploited by attackers to obtain database information...

What should a US federal data privacy law ideally include?

In the constant David-and-Goliath struggle between digital privacy advocates and corporate privacy invaders, the question of how to legally protect Americans with a comprehensive, federal data privacy law provides conflicting answers. Advocates want protections, which Big Tech interprets as...

WooCommerce <= 3.6.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) & File Type Check

Changelog mentions: Security – Introduce file type check for tax rate importer. Security – Added nonce check to CSV importer actions. RIPS Tech later released an advisory detailing the vulnerability, which can be found in the references...

A week in security (June 24 – 30)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we peeled back the mystery on an elusive malware campaign that relied on blank JavaScript injections, detailed for readers our latest telemetry on the tricky GreenFlash Sundown exploit, and looked at one of the top campaigns directing traffic toward scareware pages...

Recipe for success: tech support scammers zero in via paid search

Tech support scammers are known for engaging in a game of whack-a-mole with defenders. Case in point, last month there were reports that crooks had invaded Microsoft Azure Cloud Services to host fake warning pages, also known as browser lockers. In this blog, we take a look at one of the top...

CVE-2018-3702

Improper permissions in the installer for the ITE Tech Consumer Infrared Driver for Windows 10 versions before 5.4.3.0 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access...

CVE-2018-3702

Improper permissions in the installer for the ITE Tech Consumer Infrared Driver for Windows 10 versions before 5.4.3.0 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access...

Input validation

Improper permissions in the installer for the ITE Tech Consumer Infrared Driver for Windows 10 versions before 5.4.3.0 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access...

CVE-2018-3702

Improper permissions in the installer for the ITE Tech Consumer Infrared Driver for Windows 10 versions before 5.4.3.0 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access...