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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...
Why Data Privacy Day matters
Our Lock and Code special episode on Data Privacy Day, featuring guests from Mozilla, DuckDuckGo, and Electronic Frontier Foundation can be listened to here. Today, January 28, is Data Privacy Day, the annual, multinational event in which governments, companies, and schools can inform the public...
Logitech: Sensitive information disclosure to shared access user via streamlabs platform api
Summary: Hi there, Hope you are doing well and stay safe. Streamlab allows us to invite other users to manage our dashboard and cloudbot functions via following setting which named "Shared Access". https://streamlabs.com/dashboard/settings/shared-access If we invite other users with Moderator rol...
48 U.S. States and FTC are suing Facebook for illegal monopolization
The US Federal Trade Commission and a coalition of 48 state attorneys general on Wednesday filed a pair of sweeping antitrust suits against Facebook, alleging that the company abused its power in the marketplace to neutralize competitors through its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp and...
China's Baidu Android Apps Caught Collecting Sensitive User Data
Two popular Android apps from Chinese tech giant Baidu were temporarily unavailable on the Google Play Store in October after they were caught collecting sensitive user details. The two apps in question—Baidu Maps and Baidu Search Box—were found to collect device identifiers, such as the...
CVE-2020-8278
Improper access control in Nextcloud Social app version 0.3.1 allowed to read posts of any user...
Some Apple Apps on macOS Big Sur Bypass Content Filters, VPNs
Security researchers are blasting Apple for a feature in the latest Big Sur release of macOS that allows some Apple apps to bypass content filters and VPNs. They say it is a liability that can be exploited by threat actors to bypass firewalls and give them access to people’s systems and expose...
The Origin Is No More
Over the last 15 years, there's been a paradigm shift. Long gone are the days when you built and managed your own data center, were responsible for the physical hardware and the management overhead, and endured the high capital investment of the build and maintenance. As soon as central cloud...
lka.spbgasu.ru GDPR PII Exposure vulnerability OBB-1470000
Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has:       a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence;       b. notified the website operator about its existence...
Code injection
A user privacy issue was addressed by removing the broadcast MAC address. This issue is fixed in macOS Catalina 10.15, watchOS 6, iOS 13, tvOS 13. A device may be passively tracked by its Wi-Fi MAC address...
CVE-2019-8854
CVE-2019-8854 affects Apple devices by addressing a user privacy issue where watchOS, iOS, macOS, and tvOS could be passively tracked via the Wi‑Fi MAC address. The root cause was the broadcast MAC address being exposed; Apple mitigated this by removing the broadcast MAC address. Patches are deli...
munchie.co.za GDPR PII Exposure vulnerability OBB-1447735
Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has:       a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence;       b. notified the website operator about its existence...
malfong.is GDPR PII Exposure vulnerability OBB-1440517
Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has:       a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence;       b. notified the website operator about its existence...
cwicsocal18.ics.uci.edu GDPR PII Exposure vulnerability OBB-1351986
Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has:       a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence;       b. notified the website operator about its existence...