Facebook's FTC-Mandated Privacy Committee Now in Effect

Facebook on Thursday said it has started to report its privacy practices to a newly formed, independent Privacy Committee. The creation of the independent committee was part of the company’s settlement a year ago with the Federal Trade Commission FTC over data privacy violations, which came in...

microtechinno.com GDPR PII Exposure vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-1188719 Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspa. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspb. notified the website...

pepsico.service-now.com GDPR PII Exposure vulnerability OBB-1185938

Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspa. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspb. notified the website operator about its existence...

Google Location Tracking Lambasted in Arizona Lawsuit

Google has been hit by a lawsuit alleging that it violates user privacy by collecting location data via various means – and claiming that Google makes it nearly “impossible” for users to opt out of such data tracking. The lawsuit, filed by Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, alleges that Goog...

teamster.app GDPR PII Exposure vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-1158126 Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspa. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspb. notified the website...

play.google.com GDPR PII Exposure vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-1157845 Security Researcher moonbaba Helped patch 0 vulnerabilities Received 0 Coordinated Disclosure badges , found a security vulnerability affecting play.google.com website and its users. Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the I...

CVE-2019-4288

IBM Maximo Anywhere versions 7.6.2.x and 7.6.3.x are affected by CVE-2019-4288, an information disclosure where an attacker with physical access and authenticated to the device could copy application information via Android Backup. The vulnerability is caused by the product’s handling of backups,...

CVE-2020-9773

The issue was addressed with improved handling of icon caches. This issue is fixed in iOS 14.0 and iPadOS 14.0. A malicious application may be able to identify what other applications a user has installed...

Zoom Kills iOS App’s Data-Sharing Facebook Feature

Zoom has removed a feature in its iOS web conferencing app that was sharing analytics data with Facebook, after a report revealing the practice sparked outrage. According to the Motherboard report last week that originally disclosed the privacy issue, the transferred information included data on...

espnplayer.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-1128434 Security Researcher Implosion Helped patch 1643 vulnerabilities Received 7 Coordinated Disclosure badges Received 29 recommendations , a holder of 7 badges for responsible and coordinated disclosure, found a security vulnerability affecting espnplayer.com website a...

Staging.every.org: Private account causes displayed through API

Summary: Any authenticated user can see which causes a private account user is interested in, by sending a GET request to the API, even though this information is not displayed anywhere on the profile page. In the profile settings, the following message is displayed for "Private Supporter" option...

hurleyarchitects.co.nz Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-1121129 Security Researcher metamorfosec Helped patch 1965 vulnerabilities Received 9 Coordinated Disclosure badges Received 31 recommendations , a holder of 9 badges for responsible and coordinated disclosure, found a security vulnerability affecting hurleyarchitects.co.n...

DNS over HTTPS

DNS over HTTPS DoH is a protocol for performing remote Domain Name System DNS resolution via the HTTPS protocol. A goal of the method is to increase user privacy and security by preventing eavesdropping and manipulation of DNS data by man-in-the-middle attacks1 by using the HTTPS protocol to...

beavrs.org GDPR PII Exposure vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-1086137 Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspa. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspb. notified the website...

Google to Nix Chrome Support for Third-Party Cookies by 2022

Google has set an aggressive two-year deadline for dropping support for third-party tracking cookies in its Chrome web browser. Tracking cookies, which allow advertisers to virtually follow people around the web, are used for ad targeting. The move follows a number of privacy hardening steps by...

novochem.net GDPR PII Exposure vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-1066026 Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspa. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspb. notified the website...

Affirm: Absence of Token expiry leads to Unauthorized login Access

Summary While doing the testing for the mobile app, I observed out that it is possible to bypass the authentication and gain unauthorized access to the user's account bu brute-forcing the PIN due to lack of login token expiry. The way affirm mobile login works is that, User inputs the phone numbe...

Happy 10th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity.com

Today marks the 10th anniversary of KrebsOnSecurity.com! Over the past decade, the site has featured more than 1,800 stories focusing mainly on cybercrime, computer security and user privacy concerns. And what a decade it has been. Stories here have exposed countless scams, data breaches,...

Facebook Security Debacles: 2019 Year in Review

Facebook Security: 2019 Year in Review Facebook spent the past year both trying to deal with the consequences of the Cambridge Analytica scandal that rocked its public relations in 2018, as well as other issues afflicting the social media platform – from data security challenges to political...

CVE-2019-8567

A user privacy issue was addressed by removing the broadcast MAC address. This issue is fixed in iOS 12.2. A device may be passively tracked by its WiFi MAC address...