A week in security (August 20 – August 26)

Last week on Labs, we took a look at insider threats, doubled back on the privacy of search browser extensions, profiled green card scams, revisited Defcon badgelife, and talked about what happens to a user's accounts when they die. Other cybersecurity news There was an archiving error in Twitch...

Recent App Issues Reveal Facebook’s Struggles to Temper Data Privacy Woes

Facebook was hit with a double privacy punch regarding data privacy on Wednesday. First, Facebook acknowledged in a public post that one of the apps on its platform, myPersonality, inappropriately shared 4 million users’ data with researchers. Also on Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal reported...

Apple Forces Facebook VPN App Out of iOS Store for Stealing Users' Data

Facebook yesterday removed its mobile VPN app called Onavo Protect from the iOS App Store after Apple declared the app violated the iPhone maker's App Store guidelines on data collection. For those who are unaware, Onavo Protect is a Facebook-owned Virtual Private Network VPN app that was primari...

Apple Forces Facebook VPN App Out of iOS Store for Stealing Users' Data

Facebook yesterday removed its mobile VPN app called Onavo Protect from the iOS App Store after Apple declared the app violated the iPhone maker's App Store guidelines on data collection. For those who are unaware, Onavo Protect is a Facebook-owned Virtual Private Network VPN app that was primari...

Active Directory Privilege Relationships: BloodHound

BloodHound is a single page Javascript web application, built on top of Linkurious , compiled with Electron , with a Neo4j database fed by a PowerShell ingestor . BloodHound uses graph theory to reveal the hidden and often unintended relationships within an Active Directory environment. Attacks c...

Google Chrome < 68.0.3440.75 Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Dispelling the Myths Surrounding Security Technology and GDPR

Many of our customers conducting business in Europe are concerned about how the new General Data Protection Regulation "GDPR" impacts the ability to protect their organization's data, network and IT system resources. In particular, many worry that the requirements of GDPR will restrict their...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for...

Google Tracks Android, iPhone Users Even With 'Location History' Turned Off

Google tracks you everywhere, even if you explicitly tell it not to. Every time a service like Google Maps wants to use your location, Google asks your permission to allow access to your location if you want to use it for navigating, but a new investigation shows that the company does track you...

How To Collect Remote CDF Tracing

Step to follow to collect Remote CDF tracing...

Remote code execution

A remote code execution vulnerability was identified in HP Business Service Management BSM using Apache Commons Collection Java Deserialization versions v9.20-v9.26...

CVE-2016-4405

A remote code execution vulnerability was identified in HP Business Service Management BSM using Apache Commons Collection Java Deserialization versions v9.20-v9.26...

CVE-2016-4405

HP Business Service Management (BSM) is affected by a remote code execution vulnerability in the Apache Commons Collections Java deserialization implementation, specifically versions 9.20–9.26. The issue arises from deserializing untrusted data, enabling an attacker to execute arbitrary code in t...

CVE-2016-4405

A remote code execution vulnerability was identified in HP Business Service Management BSM using Apache Commons Collection Java Deserialization versions v9.20-v9.26...

SQL Injection Vulnerability in the Query of the Opinion Collection Module of SMi CMS Group Web Group System

State Micro CMS is one of the mainstream CMS systems in China, and is also the largest open source platform provider in the field of PHP in Southern China. SQL injection vulnerability exists in the query of the opinion collection module of the State Micro CMS group station group system. Attackers...

CCleaner Adds Data Collection Feature With No Way to Opt-Out

Like many others, do you also believe that the popular system-cleaning tool CCleaner was performing well before Avast acquired the software from Piriform last year? If yes, then pop-up advertisements in the previous CCleaner software version was not the last thing you have to deal with. Avast has...

CCleaner Adds Data Collection Feature With No Way to Opt-Out

Like many others, do you also believe that the popular system-cleaning tool CCleaner was performing well before Avast acquired the software from Piriform last year? If yes, then pop-up advertisements in the previous CCleaner software version was not the last thing you have to deal with. Avast has...

SQL Injection Vulnerability in the Search of the Opinion Collection Module of SMiCMS School CMS Group System

State Micro CMS is one of the mainstream CMS systems in China, and is also the largest open source platform provider in the field of PHP in Southern China. SQL injection vulnerability exists in the search of the opinion collection module of the State Micro CMS school cluster system. Attackers can...

WindowsSpyBlocker - Block Spying And Tracking On Windows

WindowsSpyBlocker is an application written in Go and delivered as a single executable to block spying and tracking on Windows systems. The initial approach of this application is to capture and analyze network traffic based on a set of tools. It is open for everyone and if you want to contribute...

Facebook Security Exec Calls for Tightened Data Privacy

Facebook’s outgoing chief information security officer Alex Stamos has urged the social media company to rethink its approach to data privacy. The executive, whose exit has been widely reported on for months, wrote an internal note to staff that called for changes in how Facebook approaches data...