Effective Threat-Hunting Queries in a Redacted World

A decade ago, hunting for adversary infrastructure was often as simple as monitoring a domain registrant’s name or phone number in public WHOIS records. As bad actors have moved first toward privacy protection services and then gained further obscurity behind laws such as the General Data...

Cookie Notice & Consent Banner for GDPR & CCPA Compliance < 1.7.2 - Authenticated Stored XSS

The plugin does not properly sanitize inputs to prevent injection of arbitrary HTML within the plugin's design customization options. Go to the plugin's Customize Design page and open the "Wizard menu". Now scroll down and you will find an "Info Text" field where you can inject an XSS payload lik...

Cookie Notice & Consent Banner for GDPR & CCPA Compliance < 1.7.2 - Authenticated Stored XSS

The plugin does not properly sanitize inputs to prevent injection of arbitrary HTML within the plugin's design customization options. PoC Go to the plugin's Customize Design page and open the "Wizard menu". Now scroll down and you will find an "Info Text" field where you can inject an XSS payload...

Why adopt a data-centric solution for data privacy?

Enterprises understand the importance of having access to their consumers personal information. This data enables them to more easily build personal relationships with their audiences, using what they know about that audience to provide tailored experiences and recommendations. The internet has...

A Post-Data Privacy World and Data-Rights Management

The reality is that today, almost everyone is being tracked and monitored 24/7 with cameras recording our expressions, interactions and speech to determine what we might be thinking, where we are going and who we are meeting. While privacy differs from nation to nation and culture to culture, one...

WordPress Ultimate GDPR & CCPA Compliance Toolkit premium plugin <= 2.4 - Unauthenticated Settings Import & Export vulnerability

Unauthenticated Settings Import & Export vulnerability found by Jerome Bruandet in WordPress Ultimate GDPR & CCPA Compliance Toolkit premium plugin versions = 2.4. Solution Update the WordPress Ultimate GDPR & CCPA Compliance Toolkit premium plugin to the latest available version at least 2.5...

Ultimate GDPR & CCPA Compliance Toolkit < 2.5 - Unauthenticated Plugin Settings Export and Import

The plugin used the isadmin method as an authorisation check, which does not check if the user is a an administrator. This could allow unauthenticated attackers to import arbitrary plugin’s settings and redirect all traffic to an external malicious website for example. Even though proper capabili...

VMware Carbon Black Champions Data Privacy Day 2021

Today is Data Privacy Day, an annual effort hosted by the National Cybersecurity Alliance NCSA to raise awareness about the importance of privacy and protection of personal information. VMware Carbon Black is proud to be an official Champion, supporting the principle that all organizations share...

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...

GDPR CCPA Compliance Support < 2.4 - Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection

The GDPR CCPA Compliance Support WordPress plugin was vulnerable to an Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection security vulnerability. PoC The vulnerability could triggered within the "njtgdprallowpermissions" Base64 encoded cookie value...

WordPress GDPR CCPA Compliance Support plugin <= 2.3 - Insecure Deserialization / Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection vulnerability

Insecure Deserialization / Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection vulnerability found by NinTechNet in WordPress GDPR CCPA Compliance Support plugin versions = 2.3. Solution Update the WordPress GDPR CCPA Compliance Support plugin to the latest available version at least 2.4...

GDPR CCPA Compliance Support < 2.4 - Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection

The GDPR CCPA Compliance Support WordPress plugin was vulnerable to an Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection security vulnerability. The vulnerability could triggered within the "njtgdprallowpermissions" Base64 encoded cookie value...

California’s Prop 24 splits data privacy supporters

California’s data privacy house is divided. On the Golden State’s November ballot this year is the question as to whether to amend California’s barely-two-year-old data privacy law, the California Consumer Privacy Act. Far from the first attempt to change the fledgling law, Proposition 24 sets...

What's New in Customer Identity and Access Management

We all know that the ability to accurately identify, understand, and engage our customers across multiple channels and digital touchpoints is absolutely vital to the digital customer experience and business. This couldn't be more important in the current environment as we continue to move more of...

New Guide: How Akamai Helps You Protect Privacy Data

Laws and regulations related to personally identifiable information PII are continuously being enacted around the world as data breaches and abuses persist. According to the February 2020 United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, 132 out of 194 countries had legislation put in place to...

Out of the Grace Period: Trust and Communication Rises in a Post-CCPA World

Six months ago, the California Consumer Privacy Act CCPA was put into effect, granting California residents increased rights over how their personal data is gathered and shared by the companies they interact with. Leading up to its launch, organizations expressed concern over whether they were...

Privacy by design: Building customer trust

Historically, the question of privacy has been the domain of the legal community. This makes perfect sense, because privacy has its roots almost exclusively in laws and regulations. The EU General Data Protection Regulation GDPR, the California Consumer Privacy Act CCPA, and similar regulations...

CCPA and Global Consumer Privacy Protection

Back in 2018 with the implementation of GDPR, global retailers with business in the EU faced great pressure to be compliant. This year, the California Consumer Privacy Act CCPA, another tough and impactful data privacy regulation from the U.S., will come into play. Global retailers need to...

RSAC 2020: Blockchain is 'Garbage In', Voting Needs Paper Ballots

SAN FRANCISCO – Cryptography is at the heart of security, especially here at this week’s RSAC 2020. And during the event’s annual Cryptographer’s Panel, industry leaders broke down their top crypto-concerns, including privacy regulations, election security and blockchain. Privacy is clearly a top...

New privacy assessments now included in Microsoft Compliance Score

Keeping up with rapidly changing regulatory requirements has become one of the biggest challenge’s organizations face today. Just as companies finished preparing for the General Data Protection Regulation GDPR, California’s privacy regulation—California Consumer Privacy Act CCPA—went into effect ...