How Apple's "Find My" Feature Works

Matthew Green intelligently speculates about how Apple's new "Find My" feature works. If you haven't already been inspired by the description above, let me phrase the question you ought to be asking: how is this system going to avoid being a massive privacy nightmare? Let me count the concerns: I...

GA Backend Tracking <= 1.2 - XSS

The Google Analytics Backend Tracking woocommerce support – WordPress Plugin WordPress plugin was affected by a XSS security vulnerability...

Prithvi - Report Generation Tool

Prithvi is a report generation tool specially made for Security Assessment which is free to use and easy to use. It will generate high quality vulnerability assessment report for security controls. It got various features and majorly made for security assessment. You can easily find security...

Fishwrap Campaign Sways Social Media Users with Old News

An influence operation that recycles old news about terror incidents and re-publishes them as if they were new is making the rounds on social media, according to Recorded Future analysis. The technique, which the researchers have dubbed Fishwrap since it repurposes old news, is also using a speci...

Apple iOS 13 will better protect user privacy, but more could be done

Last week, Apple introduced several new privacy features to its latest mobile operating system, iOS 13. The Internet, predictably, expressed doubt, questioning Apple’s oversized influence, its exclusive pricing model that puts privacy out of reach for anyone who can’t drop hundreds of dollars on ...

CVE-2018-9839

CVE-2018-9839 affects MantisBT up to versions 1.3.14 and 2.0.0. A crafted request to bug_report_page.php altering the m_id parameter can let a user with REPORTER access or higher view private issue details (summary, description, steps, additional information) when cloning. If the user selects Cop...

CVE-2019-10149

creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2019-06-06 17:46:00+00:00| published-proof-of-concept| https://t.me/antichat/5295 2019-06-10 12:11:05+00:00| seen| https://www.kyberturvallisuuskeskus.fi/fi/exim-sahkopostipalvelimen-haavoittuvuuden-avulla-tehdaan-tietomurtoja 2019-06-13 05:00:00+00:00|...

Hyperlink auditing: where has my option to disable it gone?

There is a relatively old method that might be gaining traction to follow users around on the world wide web. Most Internet users are aware of the fact that they are being tracked in several ways. And awareness is a good start. In a state of awareness, you can adjust your behavior accordingly, an...

Integrating Threat and Vulnerability Management with Patch Management: The (Feasible) Quantum Leap

The rise of sophisticated attacks combined with the security-skills shortage have driven many organizations to go back to basics and review their processes for vulnerability and patch management. The approach is definitely a winning one, given that shrinking and managing the vulnerability surface...

Mozilla and Google Browsers Get Security, Anti-Tracking Boosts

Browsers Firefox and Chrome received updates this week, both adding security and privacy tools that help with password management and help block sites that track users. Mozilla’s Firefox browser introduced an “Enhanced Tracking Protection” feature that blocks over 1,000 third-party companies that...

Firefox Web Browser Now Blocks Third-Party Tracking Cookies By Default

As promised, Mozilla has finally enabled "Enhanced Tracking Protection" feature on its Firefox browser by default, which from now onwards would automatically block all third-party tracking cookies that allow advertisers and websites to track you across the web. Tracking cookies, also known as...

Firefox Web Browser Now Blocks Third-Party Tracking Cookies By Default

As promised, Mozilla has finally enabled "Enhanced Tracking Protection" feature on its Firefox browser by default, which from now onwards would automatically block all third-party tracking cookies that allow advertisers and websites to track you across the web. Tracking cookies, also known as...

wireshark/fuzzshark_ip_proto-udp: Heap-buffer-overflow in reassemble_continuation_state

Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=5661584824729600 Project: wireshark Fuzzer: aflwiresharkfuzzsharkipproto-udp Fuzz target binary: fuzzsharkipproto-udp Job Type: aflasanwireshark Platform Id: linux Crash Type: Heap-buffer-overflow WRITE Crash Address: 0x604002190634 Crash State:...

Malicious Package

reqest is a malicious package which typosquatted a popular package with a similar name. It tracks user information such as name of the downloaded package, name of the intended package, the Node version and whether the process was running as sudo and uploaded the information to a remote server...

Malicious Package

saync is a malicious package which typosquatted a popular package with a similar name. It tracks user information such as name of the downloaded package, name of the intended package, the Node version and whether the process was running as sudo and uploaded the information to a remote server...

Malicious Package

Overview All versions of saync typosquatted a popular package of similar name and tracked users who had installed the incorrect package. The package uploaded information to a remote server including: name of the downloaded package, name of the intended package, the Node version and whether the...

Malicious Package

Overview All versions of reqest typosquatted a popular package of similar name and tracked users who had installed the incorrect package. The package uploaded information to a remote server including: name of the downloaded package, name of the intended package, the Node version and whether the...

Calibration Attack Drills Down on iPhone, Pixel Users

A proof-of-concept for a new type of privacy attack, dubbed “calibration fingerprinting,” uses data from Apple iPhone sensors to construct a globally unique fingerprint for any given mobile user. Researchers said that this provides an unusually effective means to track people as they browse acros...

Fingerprinting iPhones

This clever attack allows someone to uniquely identify a phone when you visit a website, based on data from the accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer sensors. We have developed a new type of fingerprinting attack, the calibration fingerprinting attack. Our attack uses data gathered from the...

imagemagick/encoder_ptif_fuzzer: Heap-buffer-overflow in PushShortPixel

Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=5722372625137664 Project: imagemagick Fuzzer: libFuzzerimagemagickencoderptiffuzzer Fuzz target binary: encoderptiffuzzer Job Type: libfuzzerasanimagemagick Platform Id: linux Crash Type: Heap-buffer-overflow READ 1 Crash Address: 0x61d000004e84...