WhatsApp hit with €225 million fine for GDPR violations

WhatsApp was hit with a €225 million fine for violating the General Data Protection Regulation GDPR, the European Union’s sweeping data protection law that has been in effect for more than three years. The fine represents the highest ever penalty levied by the Irish Data Protection Commission,...

WhatsApp Sues Indian Government Over New Internet Regulations

WhatsApp on Wednesday fired a legal salvo against the Indian government to block new regulations that would require messaging apps to trace the "first originator" of messages shared on the platform, thus effectively breaking encryption protections. "Requiring messaging apps to 'trace' chats is th...

Attacker Causes Epileptic Seizure over the Internet

This isn't a first, but I think it will be the first conviction: The GIF set off a highly unusual court battle that is expected to equip those in similar circumstances with a new tool for battling threatening trolls and cyberbullies. On Monday, the man who sent Eichenwald the moving image, John...

WhatsApp's Case Against NSO Group Hinges on a Tricky Legal Argument

The Facebook-owned messaging company is taking on a notorious malware vendor in what could be an uphill battle...

Edward Snowden's Memoirs

Ed Snowden has published a book of his memoirs: Permanent Record. I have not read it yet, but I want to point you all towards two pieces of writing about the book. The first is an excellent review of the book and Snowden in general by SF writer and essayist Jonathan Lethem, who helped make a shor...

Changing California’s privacy law: A snapshot at the support and opposition

This month, the corporate-backed, legislative battle against California privacy met a blockade, as one Senate committee voted down and negotiated changes to several bills that, as originally written, could have weakened the state’s data privacy law, the California Consumer Privacy Act. Though the...

The Battle of Winterfell: A Tactical Analysis

If you're going up against an army of the undead, maybe plan a little better...

DDoSing Hospital Networks Landed This Hacktivist in Jail for Over 10 Years

A simple DDoS attack could land you in jail for 10 years or even more. A Massachusetts man has been sentenced to over 10 years in prison for launching DDoS attacks against the computer network of two healthcare organizations in 2014 to protest the treatment of a teenager at the centers. Beyond...

The Elite Intel Team Still Fighting Meltdown and Spectre

One year after a pair of devastating processor vulnerabilities were first disclosed, Intel's still dealing with the fallout...

Fortnite Scammers Approaching $1m in Annual Takings

When something seems too good to be true, it probably is. It’s a hard lesson to learn and, in this case, one that’s being taught by scammers. The perpetrators are abusing the fact that online players of Battle Royale games may be very eager to get free in-game currency and items, and are willing ...

CVE-2018-1999023

The Battle for Wesnoth Project version 1.7.0 through 1.14.3 contains a Code Injection vulnerability in the Lua scripting engine that can result in code execution outside the sandbox. This attack appear to be exploitable via Loading specially-crafted saved games, networked games, replays, and play...

CVE-2018-1999023

The Battle for Wesnoth Project version 1.7.0 through 1.14.3 contains a Code Injection vulnerability in the Lua scripting engine that can result in code execution outside the sandbox. This attack appear to be exploitable via Loading specially-crafted saved games, networked games, replays, and play...

CVE-2018-1999023

CVE-2018-1999023 affects The Battle for Wesnoth Project versions 1.7.0 through 1.14.3. The vulnerability is a Code Injection flaw in the Lua scripting engine that can lead to code execution outside the sandbox. Exploitation vectors include loading specially-crafted saved games, networked games, r...

Telegram Ordered to Hand Over Encryption Keys to Russian Authorities

Russia’s top court ruled Tuesday that the Telegram messaging service, with 9.5 million active Russian users, must hand over encryption keys to authorities. The Britain-based messaging app company, with 100 million global users, now has 15 days to provide communications regulators in Russia with t...

Shadow Combat Super Battle - Customized SSL, WebView code execution vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Shadow Combat Super Battle published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

CVE-2015-5070

The 1 filesystem::getwmllocation function in filesystem.cpp and 2 islegalfile function in filesystemboost.cpp in Battle for Wesnoth before 1.12.4 and 1.13.x before 1.13.1, when a case-insensitive filesystem is used, allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via vectors related to...

Design/Logic Flaw

The 1 filesystem::getwmllocation function in filesystem.cpp and 2 islegalfile function in filesystemboost.cpp in Battle for Wesnoth before 1.12.3 and 1.13.x before 1.13.1 allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via vectors related to inclusion of .pbl files from WML...

CVE-2015-5069

Removed by vendor...

CVE-2015-5070

The CVE-2015-5070 entry concerns Battle for Wesnoth prior to 1.12.4 and 1.13.x before 1.13.1, where the functions filesystem::get_wml_location (filesystem.cpp) and is_legal_file (filesystem_boost.cpp) on case-insensitive filesystems could disclose sensitive information via vectors related to .pbl...

CVE-2015-5069

CVE-2015-5069 pertains to the Battle for Wesnoth game. The vulnerability affects versions prior to 1.12.3 and 1.13.x prior to 1.13.1, where two functions (filesystem::get_wml_location in filesystem.cpp and is_legal_file in filesystem_boost.cpp) could allow remote attackers to exfiltrate sensitive...