macs.hw.ac.uk GDPR PII Exposure vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-1021824 Security Researcher offensi74555475 Helped patch 0 vulnerabilities Received 0 Coordinated Disclosure badges , found a security vulnerability affecting macs.hw.ac.uk website and its users. Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of...

monitor.somafm.com GDPR PII Exposure vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-1020579 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...

Firefox DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and Enterprise Threat Protector

Recursive DNS communications are normally unencrypted between a client and a resolver. In an effort to improve user privacy and address security concerns, Mozilla announced it would begin enabling DNS over HTTPS DoH by default in its Firefox browser. However, Mozilla recognized it would be...

Execs Could Face Jail Time For Privacy Violations

A new data privacy bill threatens large tech firms, like Facebook, with tough penalties – including monetary fines and up to 20 years of jail time for executives – if they violate user privacy policies. The “Mind Your Own Business Act,” proposed by Sen. Ron Wyden D-Ore. on Thursday, gives the...

Twitter Uses Phone Numbers, Emails to Sell Ads

Twitter has acknowledged that user phone numbers and email addresses gathered for security purposes, as part of its two-factor authentication policy, may have been used to sell ads. It calls the move an accident. The revelation is being widely criticized for its obvious breach of user privacy,...

OPENSUSE-SU-2019:2288-1 Security update for singularity

This update for singularity fixes the following issues: singularity was updated to version 3.4.1: This point release addresses the following issues: - Fixes an issue where a PID namespace was always being used - Fixes compilation on non 64-bit architectures - Allows fakeroot builds for zypper,...

Venmo's Public Transactions Policy Stirs Privacy Concerns

Your simple $5 Venmo payment to a friend after splitting a pizza could easily expedite various malicious attacks, from stalking to spear-phishing, according to researcher concerns. Many have weighed in on Venmo’s privacy practices, but the latest are Mozilla Foundation and the Electronic Frontier...

vyfakturuj.cz GDPR PII Exposure vulnerability

Security Researcher DakkarKey Helped patch 406 vulnerabilities Received 6 Coordinated Disclosure badges Received 14 recommendations , a holder of 6 badges for responsible and coordinated disclosure, found a security vulnerability affecting vyfakturuj.cz website and its users. Following coordinate...

Google Proposes 'Privacy Sandbox' to Develop Privacy-Focused Ads

Google today announced a new initiative—called Privacy Sandbox—in an attempt to develop a set of open standards that fundamentally enhances privacy on the web while continuing to support a free, open and democratic Internet through digital advertisements. A lot of websites on the Internet today,...

Google Launches Open-Source Browser Extension for Ad Transparency

Google is launching an experimental, open-source browser extension aimed at increasing transparency around online advertising by displaying information about the ads that are shown to users. The browser extension is an integral part of a new Google initiative announced Thursday to develop a set o...

Adult Content Site Exposed Personal Data of 1M Users

The personal information more than a million users of popular adult website Luscious, including email addresses that sometimes indicated full names, were found exposed in an unsecured Elasticsearch database. The website, which focuses on anime-themed, user-uploaded adult content, has over 1 milli...

Apple Suspends Siri Program After Privacy Backlash

Apple is suspending a program that lets contractors listen in on Siri voice recordings after facing a rain of backlash regarding the privacy implications of the program. The suspension comes after a report in The Guardian last week outlining how contractors regularly listen to intimate voice...

MongoDB 4.2 Introduces End-to-End Field Level Encryption for Databases

At its developer conference held earlier this week in New York, the MongoDB team announced the latest version of its database management software that includes a variety of advanced features, including Field Level Encryption, Distributed Transactions, and Wildcard Indexes. The newly introduced...

Apple's 'Find My' Feature Uses Some Very Clever Cryptography

Apple says an elaborate rotating key scheme will soon let you track down your stolen laptop, but not let anyone track you. Not even Apple...

Is 'Sign in with Apple' Marketing Spin or Privacy Magic? Experts Weigh In

Apple’s “Sign in with Apple” feature promises to protect user privacy – and while many are looking at that claim as more of a marketing move than anything else, authentication experts say it has the potential to have an enormous impact on the data privacy ecosystem. The giant from Cupertino took...

NIST’s privacy framework lets privacy tell its own story

Online privacy remains unsolved. Congress prods at it, some companies fumble with it while a small handful excel, and the public demands it. But one government agency is trying to bring everyone together to fix it. As the Senate sits on no fewer than four data privacy bills that their own members...

Get the Facebook Marketplace sellers precise location information-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! This article share it with Facebook Marketplace sales system associated with the user information leakage vulnerability through which the vulnerability can obtain the release of goods the seller's accurate to the latitude and longitude and zip code and other specific location information...

Twitter Leaks Apple iOS Users' Location Data to Ad Partner

Twitter has disclosed a security bug in its platform that it said inadvertently leaked iOS users’ location data. The Twitter for iOS bug leaked location data at the ZIP code or city level, according to the social media company’s announcement on Monday. Twitter stressed that it has fixed the bug,...

CVE-2018-14993

The ASUS Zenfone V Live Android device with a build fingerprint of asus/VZWASUSA009/ASUSA009:7.1.1/NMF26F/14.0610.1802.78-20180313:user/release-keys and the Asus ZenFone 3 Max Android device with a build fingerprint of...

Consumers have few legal options for protecting privacy

There are no promises in the words, “We care about user privacy.” Yet, these words appear on privacy policy after privacy policy, serving as disingenuous banners to hide potentially invasive corporate practices, including clandestine data collection, sharing, and selling. This is no accident. It ...