Researchers: Facebook's Data-Leveraging Scandal Puts Users on Notice

On the heels of reports that Facebook leveraged its users’ data in its relationships with other companies, researchers say that the tech space needs to re-assess the value of data as it relates to user privacy measures. However, they also said that users need to take steps themselves to safeguard...

WordPress: Add users to groups who have restricted group invites

Description: WordPress version: 5.2 BuddyPress version: 4.2.0 Through this vulnerability, an attacker could add users to groups who have set : I want to restrict Group invites to my friends only. There is no proper validation of the personal settings of the user and thus the users with such priva...

540 Million Facebook User Records Found On Unprotected Amazon Servers

It's been a bad week for Facebook users. First, the social media company was caught asking some of its new users to share passwords for their registered email accounts and now… ...the bad week gets worse with a new privacy breach. More than half a billion records of millions of Facebook users hav...

US Congress proposes comprehensive federal data privacy legislation—finally

The United States might be the only country of its size—both in economy and population—to lack a comprehensive data privacy law protecting its citizens’ online lives. That could change this year. Never-ending cybersecurity breaches, recently-enacted international privacy laws, public outrage, and...

Zomato: Possible to enumerate Addresses of users using AddressId and guessing the delivery_subzone

Description The title may seem a bit confusing but I will try to make it as simple as possible. Let us dive into it. When we login to zomato.com and click on Order Food, We are redirected to the endpoint like /mumbai/order-food-online?deliverysubzone=10159 where mumbai is the city and 10159 is th...

Facebook’s history betrays its privacy pivot

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg proposed a radical pivot for his company this month: it would start caring—really—about privacy, building out a new version of the platform that turns Facebook less into a public, open “town square” and more into a private, intimate “living room.” Zuckerberg promised...

Merging Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram: a technical, reputational hurdle

Secure messaging is supposed to be just that—secure. That means no backdoors, strong encryption, private messages staying private, and, for some users, the ability to securely communicate without giving up tons of personal data. So, when news broke that scandal-ridden, online privacy pariah...

Dailymotion Fights Ongoing Credential-Stuffing Attack

Dailymotion, the video-sharing platform, said Friday that it had fallen victim to a “large-scale” and ongoing credential-stuffing assault by attackers looking to harvest user data. The French YouTube competitor said in an alert that it has “successfully contained the attacks following the...

Police Can't Force You To Unlock Your Phone Using Face or Fingerprint Scan

Can feds force you to unlock your iPhone or Android phone? ..."NO" A Northern California judge has ruled that federal authorities can't force you to unlock your smartphone using your fingerprints or other biometric features such as facial recognition—even with a warrant. The ruling came in the ca...

Code injection

The Vivo V7 device with a build fingerprint of vivo/1718/1718:7.1.2/N2G47H/compil11021857:user/release-keys allows any app co-located on the device to set system properties as the com.android.phone user. The com.qualcomm.qti.modemtestmode app versionCode=25, versionName=7.1.2 that contains an...

CVE-2018-1000815

Brave 0.22.810–0.24.0 contains a vulnerability in ContentSettingsObserver::AllowScript() that could allow inline JavaScript to run even when blocked. Impact is user tracking risk when visiting a crafted site. The issue is fixed in Brave 0.25.2. Exploitation details are not provided in the availab...

CVE-2018-1000815

Brave Software Inc. Brave version version 0.22.810 to 0.24.0 contains a Other/Unknown vulnerability in function ContentSettingsObserver::AllowScript in contentsettingsobserver.cc that can result in Websites can run inline JavaScript even if script is blocked, making attackers easier to track user...

X (Formerly Twitter): Incorrect details on OAuth permissions screen allows DMs to be read without permission

NOTE! Thanks for submitting a report! Please replace all the square sections below with the pertinent details. Remember, the more detail you provide, the easier it is for us to triage and respond quickly, so be sure to take your time filling out the report! Summary: The OAuth screen can be tricke...

CVE-2018-18655

Prayer through 1.3.5 sends a Referer header, containing a user's username, when a user clicks on a link in their email because header.t lacks a no-referrer setting...

Adult Website Hack Exposes 1.2M ‘Wife Lover’ Fans

The database underlying an erotica site known as Wife Lovers has been hacked, making off with user information protected only by a simple-to-crack, outdated hashing technique known as the DEScrypt algorithm. Over the weekend, it came to light that Wife Lovers and seven sister sites, all similarly...

Twitter Flaw Exposed Direct Messages To External Developers

Twitter on Friday said that a recently-patched bug in its platform enabled software developers to read users’ private direct messages or protected tweets. The bug ran from May 2017 until it was discovered on September 10 – after which Twitter patched the glitch to prevent data from being...

Top MacOS App Exfiltrates Browser Histories Behind Users’ Backs

A top-grossing Apple App Store program called Adware Doctor is capable of sidestepping macOS security controls and surreptitiously copying a user’s entire browser history. It then sends it to a China-based domain. According to Patrick Wardle, chief research officer at Digita Security and founder ...

Side-Channel Attack Allows Remote Listener to ‘Hear’ On-Screen Images

A stealthy side-channel tactic for digital surveillance has been uncovered, which allows an attacker to “hear” on-screen images. According to a team of academic researchers from Columbia University, the University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania and Tel Aviv University, inaudible acoustic...

CVE-2018-5892

CVE-2018-5892 concerns Touch Pal on Snapdragon Mobile and Snapdragon Wear where the app can collect user behavior data without user awareness. The NVD entry lists a NETWORK attack vector with low attack complexity and no user interaction required, and indicates partial confidentiality impact alon...

Facebook Admits Sharing Users' Data With 61 Tech Companies

Facebook has admitted that the company gave dozens of tech companies and app developers special access to its users' data after publicly saying it had restricted outside companies to access such data back in 2015. It's an unusual clear view of how the largest social networking site manages your...