Identifying the Person Behind Bitcoin Fog

The person behind the Bitcoin Fog was identified and arrested. Bitcoin Fog was an anonymization service: for a fee, it mixed a bunch of peoples bitcoins up so that it was hard to figure out where any individual coins came from. It ran for ten years. Identifying the person behind Bitcoin Fog serve...

Slack: Cross-site leak allows attacker to de-anonymize members of his team from another origin

This issue was reported by researcher @jub0bs via HackerOne on December 29, 2020. The Slack security team reviewed the issue, understanding the nature of information disclosure on Dec 30th. We closed the issue as informative, which we do to reflect that the report, while accurate, has not taken...

GaussDB Kernel: Checking the POLADMIN Permission

A role with the POLADMIN permission can create resource labels, anonymization policies, and unified audit policies. To avoid arbitrary security policy creation, delete roles that do not require the POLADMIN permission. Copyright C 2020 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be...

GaussDB Kernel: Dynamic Data Anonymization

Dynamic data anonymization can flexibly protect privacy data based on customized anonymization policies. Therefore, you are advised to enable enablesecuritypolicy. Copyright C 2020 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by...

CVE-2020-26230

Radar COVID is the official COVID-19 exposure notification app for Spain. In affected versions of Radar COVID, identification and de-anonymization of COVID-19 positive users that upload Radar COVID TEKs to the Radar COVID server is possible. This vulnerability enables the identification and...

CVE-2020-26230

Radar COVID is the official COVID-19 exposure notification app for Spain. In affected versions of Radar COVID, identification and de-anonymization of COVID-19 positive users that upload Radar COVID TEKs to the Radar COVID server is possible. This vulnerability enables the identification and...

Design/Logic Flaw

Radar COVID is the official COVID-19 exposure notification app for Spain. In affected versions of Radar COVID, identification and de-anonymization of COVID-19 positive users that upload Radar COVID TEKs to the Radar COVID server is possible. This vulnerability enables the identification and...

CVE-2020-26230

CVE-2020-26230 affects Radar COVID (Spain) where positives uploading TEKs to the backend can be identified/de-anonymized by an on-path observer. Root cause: backend communication is made only by COVID-19 positives, enabling traffic correlation across networks (MNOs/ISPs/VPNs or on-path attackers)...

CVE-2019-13418

Search Guard versions before 24.0 had an issue that values of string arrays in documents are not properly anonymized...

Nord Security: User data not anonymized is sent to analytics server

A good report from @martinbydefault. Although we have never received the IDs and they could not be linked with any specific events, we have removed the connection events altogether. While, even prior to the fix, it was impossible to tie the ID with the username or activity, the reporter's concern...

Imgur: De-anonymization Attack: Cross Site Information Leakage

Dear Imgur Security Team, We are researchers at the IMDEA Software Institute in Madrid, Spain. We have been working on analyzing Cross-Site Browser Leaks xsleaks and building a tool for finding instances of it on target web sites. Recently we tested imgur.com and discovered a flaw that can affect...

A View into Top Level Domain (TLD) Abuse

Data science and security research teams in the carrier organization at Akamai process massive volumes of DNS queries every day to detect and track malicious activity. The data is live-streamed from DNS resolvers deployed in diverse service provider networks in every region of the world. Provider...

CVE-2019-13418

Search Guard versions before 24.0 had an issue that values of string arrays in documents are not properly anonymized...

CVE-2019-13418

Search Guard versions before 24.0 had an issue that values of string arrays in documents are not properly anonymized...

CVE-2019-13418

CVE-2019-13418 concerns floragunn Search Guard (for Elasticsearch/ELK) prior to version 24.0, where string-array values in documents were not properly anonymized. The underlying issue affects confidentiality, as sensitive data could be exposed due to inadequate anonymization. Public references fr...

PT-2019-13330 · Floragunn · Search Guard

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Search Guard versions prior to 24.0 Description: The issue concerns the improper anonymization of string array values in documents. This affects the confidentiality of the data, as sensitive information may not be properly protected...

CVE-2014-10374

On Fitbit activity-tracker devices, certain addresses never change. According to the popets-2019-0036.pdf document, this leads to "permanent trackability" and "considerable privacy concerns" without a user-accessible anonymization feature. The devices, such as Charge 2, transmit Bluetooth Low...

Tor Browser 7.0.8 Information Disclosure

Hi, there is the details for CVE-2017-16541 Tor Browser information disclosure, More infos at: https://www.wearesegment.com/research/tormoil-deanonymize-tor-browser-users-with-automount/ Tor Browser version 7.0.8, and probably prior, for Mac OS X and Linux, is affected by an information disclosur...

Russia to Fine Search Engines for Linking to Banned VPN services

In its years-long efforts to censor the Internet by blocking access to a large number of websites in the country, Russia has now approved a new bill introducing fines for search engines that provide links to banned sites, VPN services, and anonymization tools. VPNs, or Virtual Private Networks, a...

Browser Side-Channel Flaw De-Anonymizes Facebook Data

A side-channel vulnerability in Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox allows drive-by de-anonymization of Facebook users. An exploit would allow an attacker to pick up the profile picture, username and the “likes” of unsuspecting visitors who find themselves landing on a malicious website – with no...