Tracking by Smart TVs

Long Twitter thread about the tracking embedded in modern digital televisions. The thread references three academic papers...

[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: glpi-9.4.4-1.fc31

GLPI is the Information Resource-Manager with an additional Administration- Interface. You can use it to build up a database with an inventory for your company computer, software, printers.... It has enhanced functions to make the daily life for the administrators easier, like a job-tracking-syst...

How Incognito Google Maps Protects You—and How It Doesn't

Turning on the new Incognito Mode in Google Maps won't make you as invisible as it might sound...

For Cybersecurity and Domestic Violence Awareness months, we pledge to fight stalkerware

Starting today, two hallmark holidays are upon us. No, it’s not Halloween and Thanksgiving. It’s both Cybersecurity Awareness Month and Domestic Violence Awareness Month. It’s no coincidence these two awareness campaigns overlap. What were once seen as separate realities—the physical and the...

Ineffective Package Tracking Facilitates Fraud

This article discusses an e-commerce fraud technique in the UK. Because the Royal Mail only tracks packages to the postcode -- and not to the address - it's possible to commit a variety of different frauds. Tracking systems that rely on signature are not similarly vulnerable...

A Simple Way to Make It Harder for Mobile Ads to Track You

Beating back the scourge of online ad tracking entirely is almost impossible. But you can futz with your smartphone's "ad ID" to slow it down...

Smart TVs, Subscription Services Leak Data to Facebook, Google

Smart TVs and so-called “over the top” OTT platforms are the latest IoT devices found “spying” on users and leaking sensitive data to companies such as Facebook, Amazon, Google and Netflix, according to two separate studies conducted by university researchers as well as independent research done ...

On Roku and Amazon Fire TV, Channels Are Watching You

New research shows that over 2,000 streaming apps track information about your devices—even when you tell them not to...

In-depth exploration found in the wild iOS exploit chain VII-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

In a previous article, we studied how could an attacker on the iPhone as root for a sandbox escape code execution. In each chain at the end you can see the attacker calls posixspawn, the path passed to the/ tmp directory, the malicious binary file. Implanted code in the background to run as root,...

'Simjacker' Attack Can Track Phones Just by Sending a Text

White house spying, North Korea sanctions, and more of the week's top security news...

CVE-2016-10955

The cysteme-finder plugin before 1.4 for WordPress has unrestricted file upload because of incorrect session tracking...

CVE-2016-10955

The cysteme-finder plugin before 1.4 for WordPress has unrestricted file upload because of incorrect session tracking...

Unrestricted file upload

The cysteme-finder plugin before 1.4 for WordPress has unrestricted file upload because of incorrect session tracking...

CVE-2016-10955

The cysteme-finder plugin before 1.4 for WordPress has unrestricted file upload because of incorrect session tracking...

CVE-2016-10955

The CVE-2016-10955 affects the WordPress plugin cysteme-finder (before version 1.4). The root cause is incorrect session tracking that allows unrestricted file upload, enabling an attacker to upload, view, or delete files on the server. Red Hat and CNVD entries confirm the same description, and W...

CVE-2016-10955: Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type

The cysteme-finder plugin before 1.4 for WordPress has unrestricted file upload because of incorrect session tracking...

PT-2019-7748

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions cysteme-finder plugin versions prior to 1.4 Description The issue is related to unrestricted file upload due to incorrect session tracking. This allows for potential security breaches. Recommendations For versions prior to 1.4, update to versi...

1B Mobile Users Vulnerable to Ongoing ‘SimJacker’ Surveillance Attack

A vulnerability discovered in mobile SIM cards is being actively exploited to track phone owners’ locations, intercept calls and more – all merely by sending an SMS message to victims, researchers say. Researchers on Thursday disclosed what they said is a widespread, ongoing exploit of a SIM...

Popular Period Tracking Apps Share Your Sexual Health Data With Facebook

Hello Ladies, let's talk about periods, privacy, and Facebook. Are you using an app on your smartphone to keep tracks on your periods? Well, it's worrying, because it might be sharing your extremely sensitive information like menstrual cycle and sexual activities with Facebook. A new investigativ...

600,000 GPS child trackers found vulnerable to location tracking

By Sudais Avast set out to study a variety of GPS tools found on the internet and how secure they are which can be found on Amazon, Alibaba, and eBay among others. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 600,000 GPS child trackers found vulnerable to location tracking...