Facebook Paid Teens $20 to Install 'Research' App That Collects Private Data

If you are thinking that Facebook is sitting quietly after being forced to remove its Onavo VPN app from Apple's App Store, then you are mistaken. It turns out that Facebook is paying teenagers around $20 a month to use its VPN app that aggressively monitors their smartphone and web activity and...

Facebook Paid Teens $20 to Install 'Research' App That Collects Private Data

If you are thinking that Facebook is sitting quietly after being forced to remove its Onavo VPN app from Apple's App Store, then you are mistaken. It turns out that Facebook is paying teenagers around $20 a month to use its VPN app that aggressively monitors their smartphone and web activity and...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: lua-5.3.5-3.fc29

Lua is a powerful light-weight programming language designed for extending applications. Lua is also frequently used as a general-purpose, stand-alone language. Lua is free software. Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and...

What If Your VPN Keeps Logs and Why You Should Care

By David Balaban Have you ever asked yourself the question: “So what if my VPN keeps logs?" Don't worry. It's a good question to ask. It means you're actually curious about the nuances of data collection, management and how they affect you. In order to answer this question, we first have to delve...

What does ‘consent to tracking’ really mean?

Thanks to Jerome Boursier for contributions. Post GDPR, many social media platforms will ask end users to consent to some form of tracking as a condition of using the service. It's easy to make assumptions as to what that means, especially when the actual terms of service or data policy for the...

Mozilla: Use-after-free with select element

A use-after-free vulnerability can occur after deleting a selection element due to a weak reference to the select element in the options collection. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird 60.4, Firefox ESR 60.4, and Firefox 64...

Mozilla: Use-after-free with select element

A use-after-free vulnerability can occur after deleting a selection element due to a weak reference to the select element in the options collection. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird 60.4, Firefox ESR 60.4, and Firefox 64...

Google Fined $57M in Largest GDPR Slap Yet

France’s National Data Protection Commission CNIL has fined Google $57 million €50 million for violations of the General Data Protection Regulation GDPR – the largest fine yet issued under the EU’s new data privacy law. In investigating group complaints from privacy advocacy groups None Of Your...

January 22, 2019 — KB4481031 Cumulative update for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.7.2 for Windows 10, version 1809 and Windows Server 2019

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A week in security (January 14 – 20)

Last week on the Malwarebytes Labs blog, we took a look at how the government shutdown is influencing cybersecurity jobs, Advanced Persistent Threats group APT10, the comeback of Fallout EK, the hosting of malicious sites on legitimate servers, and the Collection 1 data breach. Other cybersecurit...

How to Collect XenServer Guest VM Operation Log

This article explains how to collect XenServer guest vm operation log...

773M Password ‘Megabreach’ is Years Old

My inbox and Twitter messages positively lit up today with people forwarding stories from Wired and other publications about a supposedly new trove of nearly 773 million unique email addresses and 21 million unique passwords that were posted to a hacking forum. A story in The Guardian breathlessl...

Apple CEO Demands Federal Data Privacy Legislation

Apple CEO Tim Cook is adding his voice to the wave of tech giants, privacy watchdogs, and consumers calling for the government to roll out tightened consumer data privacy regulations. The Apple executive called on Congress to pass “comprehensive federal privacy legislation” that would effectively...

An Astonishing 773 Million Records Exposed in Monster Breach

Collection 1 appears to be the biggest public breach yet, with millions of unique passwords sitting out in the open...

WebKit JSC JIT - GetIndexedPropertyStorage Use-After-Free Exploit

/ The doesGC function simply takes a node, and tells if it might cause a garbage collection. This function is used to determine whether to insert write barriers. But it's missing GetIndexedPropertyStorage that can cause a garbage collection via rope strings. As a result, it can lead to UaF. PoC: ...

WebKit JSC JIT Use-After-Free

WebKit: JSC: JIT: GetIndexedPropertyStorage can GC CVE-2018-4442 The doesGC function simply takes a node, and tells if it might cause a garbage collection. This function is used to determine whether to insert write barriers. But it's missing some cases such as StringCharAt, StringCharCodeAt and...

WebKit JSC JIT - GetIndexedPropertyStorage Use-After-Free

WebKit JSC JIT - GetIndexedPropertyStorage Use-After-Free / The doesGC function simply takes a node, and tells if it might cause a garbage collection. This function is used to determine whether to insert write barriers. But it's missing GetIndexedPropertyStorage that can cause a garbage collectio...

WebKit JSC JIT - GetIndexedPropertyStorage Use-After-Free

/ The doesGC function simply takes a node, and tells if it might cause a garbage collection. This function is used to determine whether to insert write barriers. But it's missing GetIndexedPropertyStorage that can cause a garbage collection via rope strings. As a result, it can lead to UaF. PoC: ...

Facebook's '10 Year Challenge' Is Just a Harmless Meme—Right?

Opinion: The 2009 vs. 2019 profile picture trend may or may not have been a data collection ruse to train its facial recognition algorithm. But we can't afford to blithely play along...

ThinkPHP 5.x Remote Command Execution

Exploit Title: thinkphp 5.X RCE Date: 2019-1-14 Exploit Author: vrsystem Vendor Homepage: http://www.thinkphp.cn/ Software Link: http://www.thinkphp.cn/down.html Version: 5.x Tested on: windows 7/10 CVE : None https://github.com/SkyBlueEternal/thinkphp-RCE-POC-Collection...