Scheme Flooding Allows User Tracking Across Browsers

A security researcher has discovered a vulnerability that allows websites to track users across a number of different desktop browsers — including Apple Safari, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox and Tor — posing a threat to cross-browser anonymity. Called “scheme flooding,” the flaw...

WhatsApp calls and messages will break unless you share data with Facebook

WhatsApp told users last week that there was no need for alarm regarding an upcoming privacy policy deadline, as users who refuse to accept the privacy policy will not have their accounts deleted—they will just have their apps rendered useless, eventually incapable of receiving calls and messages...

Sifchain: Wordpress Users Disclosure (/wp-json/wp/v2/users/) on sifchain.finance

Information: Using REST API, we can see all the WordPress users/author with some of their information. Step To Reproduce: You can get user info by entering below url in your browser: https://www.sifchain.finance/wp-json/wp/v2/users/ Results:...

Tour de Peloton: Exposed user data

An unauthenticated user could view sensitive information for all users, and snoop on live class statistics and its attendees, despite having a private mode. TL;DR Information disclosed included: - User IDs - Instructor IDs - Group Membership - Location - Workout stats - Gender and age - If they a...

Signal app insists it’s so private it can’t provide subpoenaed call data

Signal—the private, end-to-end encrypted messaging app that surged in popularity in recent months—once again reminded criminal investigators that it could not fully comply with a legal request for user records and communications because of what it asserts as a simple, unchanging fact: The records...

1.3M Clubhouse Users’ Data Dumped in Hacker Forum for Free

Clubhouse, the startup invitation-only chat app, is the latest social-media platform to see mammoth troves of user data collected and posted in underground forums. An SQL file containing the personal data of 1.3 million Clubhouse users has been posted in a hacker forum for free. Names, user IDs,...

CVE-2021-30156

An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.31.12 and 1.32.x through 1.35.x before 1.35.2. Special:Contributions can leak that a "hidden" user exists...

CVE-2021-30156

MediaWiki prior to 1.31.12 and 1.32.x through 1.35.x prior to 1.35.2 is affected. The vulnerability in Special:Contributions can leak that a hidden user exists. Remediation: upgrade to MediaWiki 1.31.12 or 1.35.2 (or later).

Design/Logic Flaw

An issue was discovered in WiZ Colors A60 1.14.0. The device sends unnecessary information to the cloud controller server. Although this information is sent encrypted and has low risk in isolation, it decreases the privacy of the end user. The information sent includes the local IP address being...

CVE-2020-11922

An issue was discovered in WiZ Colors A60 1.14.0. The device sends unnecessary information to the cloud controller server. Although this information is sent encrypted and has low risk in isolation, it decreases the privacy of the end user. The information sent includes the local IP address being...

CVE-2021-21396

wire-server is an open-source back end for Wire, a secure collaboration platform. In wire-server from version 2021-02-16 and before version 2021-03-02, the client metadata of all users was exposed in the GET /users/list-clients endpoint. The endpoint could be used by any logged in user who could...

CVE-2021-21396

wire-server is an open-source back end for Wire, a secure collaboration platform. In wire-server from version 2021-02-16 and before version 2021-03-02, the client metadata of all users was exposed in the GET /users/list-clients endpoint. The endpoint could be used by any logged in user who could...

[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: plasma-vault-5.21.3-1.fc34

Plasma Vault allows to lock and encrypt sets of documents and hide them from prying eyes even when the user is logged in...

Apple’s Device Location-Tracking System Could Expose User Identities

Two vulnerabilities in a crowdsourced location-tracking system that helps users find Apple devices even when they’re offline could expose the identity of users, research claim. Offline Finding, a proprietary app introduced by Apple in 2019 for its iOS, macOS and watchOS platforms, enables the...

Will Google’s Privacy Sandbox take the bite out of tracking cookies?

Third-party cookies have been the lynchpin of online advertising for many years. Plans to phase cookies out forever continue to run at a steady pace, with Google in the driving seat. In 2019, it announced its vision for a “Privacy Sandbox”. The building blocks for this were essentially: 1. Most...

Critics Blast Google’s Aim to Replace Browser Cookie with ‘FLoC’

This month Google begins a public test of a technology it says will eventually replace browser cookies in an effort to boost Chrome browser user privacy. However, critics say the switch is a half-measure and does not protect the web movements of Chrome users adequately. The Google solution–called...

CVE-2021-25122

When responding to new h2c connection requests, Apache Tomcat versions 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.0, 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.41 and 8.5.0 to 8.5.61 could duplicate request headers and a limited amount of request body from one request to another meaning user A and user B could both see the results of user A's...

CVE-2021-25122 Apache Tomcat h2c request mix-up

When responding to new h2c connection requests, Apache Tomcat versions 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.0, 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.41 and 8.5.0 to 8.5.61 could duplicate request headers and a limited amount of request body from one request to another meaning user A and user B could both see the results of user A's...

Clubhouse under scrutiny for sending data to Chinese servers

The audio-chat app Clubhouse is the latest rage in the social media landscape. What makes it so popular and, now its part of the social media landscape, can we trust it? The Clubhouse app Clubhouse was launched about a year ago and was initially only used by Silicon Valley’s rich and famous. It i...

Complaint Blasts TikTok’s 'Misleading' Privacy Policies

An umbrella group comprising 44 consumer-privacy watchdog organizations have filed a complaint against TikTok, saying the wildly-popular video-sharing platform has “misleading” data-collection policies. ByteDance-owned TikTok has skyrocketed in popularity, with more than 2 billion downloads on th...