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Security Vulnerabilities in Cellebrite
Moxie Marlinspike has an intriguing blog post about Cellebrite, a tool used by police and others to break into smartphones. Moxie got his hands on one of the devices, which seems to be a pair of Windows software packages and a whole lot of connecting cables. According to Moxie, the software is...
PT-2024-11116 · Linux +2 · Linux Kernel +2
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 5.12.0-rc7+ Description: The vulnerability is related to a wild memory access issue when clearing fragments while testing re-assembly/re-fragmentation using act ct. This can cause a crash and potentially lead to...
NIST and HIPAA: Is There a Password Connection?
When dealing with user data, it's essential that we design our password policies around compliance. These policies are defined both internally and externally. While companies uphold their own password standards, outside forces like HIPAA and NIST have a heavy influence. Impacts are defined by...
Safe Connections Act could help domestic abuse survivors take control of their digital lives
A bill introduced in the US Senate could help domestic abuse and sex trafficking survivors—including those tracked by stalkerware-type applications—regain digital independence through swift, shared phone plan termination and the extension of mobile phone plan subsidies. Titled the Safe Connection...
The UK Is Secretly Testing a Controversial Web Snooping Tool
The country passed its Investigatory Powers Act in 2016. Now, its building what could be the most powerful data collection system used by any democratic nation...
CEO of Encrypted Chat Platform Indicted for Aiding Organised Criminals
The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ on Friday announced an indictment against Jean-Francois Eap, the CEO of encrypted messaging company Sky Global, and an associate for wilfully participating in a criminal enterprise to help international drug traffickers avoid law enforcement. Eap also known as...
CEO of Encrypted Chat Platform Indicted for Aiding Organised Criminals
The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ on Friday announced an indictment against Jean-Francois Eap, the CEO of encrypted messaging company Sky Global, and an associate for wilfully participating in a criminal enterprise to help international drug traffickers avoid law enforcement. Eap also known as...
GPS Vulnerabilities
Really good op-ed in the New York Times about how vulnerable the GPS system is to interference, spoofing, and jamming -- and potential alternatives. The 2018 National Defense Authorization Act included funding for the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security and Transportation to jointly conduct...
New cybersecurity legislation to amend the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act – an analysis of H.R. 7898
New legislation was passed by Congress and signed by the president on January 5, 2021 that amends the HITECH Act with an additional section titled: SEC. 13412. RECOGNITION OF SECURITY PRACTICES.1...
New cybersecurity legislation to amend the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act – an analysis of H.R. 7898
New legislation was passed by Congress and signed by the president on January 5, 2021 that amends the HITECH Act with an additional section titled: SEC. 13412. RECOGNITION OF SECURITY PRACTICES. The fundamental driver for amending HITECH is to ensure the secretary of Health and Human Services HHS...
The UK Denies Assange's Extradition, Citing Suicide Risk
The ruling is based not on whether the WikiLeaks founder violated the Espionage Act, but on the implications of subjecting him to the US carceral state...
The California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA)
The California Privacy Rights Act CPRA was passed in November by voters in California. Adding another entry to the alphabet soup that is privacy regulations, the CPRA known as Proposition 24 when it was on the ballot expands on the states landmark consumer privacy law, the California Consumer...
The US Used the Patriot Act to Justify Logging Website Users
Plus: Better Twitter two-factor, a Spotify hack, and more of the week’s top security news...
IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act Passed, Heads to President's Desk
Security experts are applauding the recent stamp of approval by the U.S. Senate on a groundbreaking internet-of-things IoT security regulatory effort. The IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act, which was led in bipartisan sponsorship by Reps. Will Hurd R-Texas and Robin Kelly D-Ill., would require th...
LAPD Bans Facial Recognition, Citing Privacy Concerns
The Los Angeles Police Department LAPD has banned the use of commercial facial-recognition services – citing “public trust” considerations. The move comes in the wake of a report that showed that more than 25 employees of the department had performed 475 searches so far using the Clearview AI, an...
California Proposition 24 Passes
Californias Proposition 24, aimed at improving the California Consumer Privacy Act, passed this week. Analyses are very mixed. I was very mixed on the proposition, but on the whole I supported it. The proposition has some serious flaws, and was watered down by industry, but voting for privacy fee...
Rapper Scams $1.2M in COVID-19 Relief, Gloats with 'EDD' Video
Rapper Fontrell Antonio Baines, who goes by the stage name “Nuke Bizzle,” made his first appearance in U.S. District Court in downtown Los Angeles on Friday after being charged with fraudulently applying for more than $1.2 million in jobless benefits under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic...
CVE-2020-16945
A cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability exists when Microsoft SharePoint Server does not properly sanitize a specially crafted web request to an affected SharePoint server. An authenticated attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sending a specially crafted request to an affected SharePoint...
act-service.fr Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-1380399
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...
"School From Home" Changes Residential Internet Safety and Security Dynamics
2020 has been a year of epic change as we all work together to minimize the adverse impact of COVID-19. There's been extensive coverage in blogs and media as businesses navigated a rapid transition to remote work for their employees and pivoted to address an entirely new set of security...