Trump's New FCC Chairman Lets ISPs Sell Your Private Data Without Your Consent

Bad News for privacy concerned people! It will be once again easier for Internet Service Providers ISPs to sell your personal data for marketing or advertisement purposes without taking your permission. Last October, the United States Federal Communications Commission FCC passed a set of privacy...

Smart TV Manufacturer Vizio Fined $2.2M for Tracking Customers

Smart TV manufacturer Vizio tracked data on 11 million of its customers TVs without their knowledge or consent, the Federal Trade Commission announced this week. The Irvine, Calif.-based company agreed on Monday to pay $2.2 million to settle charges that it collected scores of its customers’ data...

Bill Calls for Study of Cybersecurity Standards for Cars

A House bill was introduced Tuesday that could accelerate the federal government’s involvement in regulating automobile cybersecurity. The Security and Privacy in Your Car Study Act of 2017, authored by Reps. Ted Lieu D-Calif. and Joe Wilson R-SC, calls on the National Highway Traffic Safety...

SQL Injection Attack is Tied to Election Commission Breach

Just as cybersecurity concerns over the U.S. presidential election reach a fevered pitch, the U.S. agency responsible for certifying that voting machines work properly says it may have been hacked. That’s after independent researchers say they uncovered evidence that hackers have infiltrated the...

US-CERT Alerts Users to Holiday Phishing Scams and Malware Campaigns

US-CERT reminds users to remain vigilant when browsing or shopping online this holiday season. Ecards from unknown senders may contain malicious links. Fake advertisements or shipping notifications may deliver infected attachments. Spoofed email messages and fraudulent posts on social networking...

ec.europa.eu XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/work/funding/beneficiaries/index.cfm?lang=en=SM=" CLICKME Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| No Latest check for patch:| 27.07.2017 Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| Unknown / Not calculated VIP...

France, Germany Call for European Decryption Law

The United States is months removed from this spring’s Apple vs. FBI debacle, but the debate around encryption is just beginning to play out in Europe. A joint press conference held Tuesday in Paris between Germany’s Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière and France’s Interior Minister Bernard...

Russia to get rid of Android and iOS by launching its own Mobile Operating System

Last month, it was reported that the European Commission is planning to impose a record antitrust fine of about 3 BILLION euros US$3.4 Billion on Google for violating antitrust laws. Not just Europe, Google also lost an anti-monopoly appeal in Russia two months back against ruling for violating i...

Google to Face a Record $3.4 Billion AntiTrust Fine in Europe

Google faces a record anti-trust penalty of about 3 BILLION Euros US$3.4 Billion from the European Commission in the coming days, according to reports. After 7-years of the investigation, the European Commission filed anti-trust charges against Google last year for violating antitrust laws. The...

Ransom32 Ransomware-As-A-Service Written in JavaScript

Crimeware services are nothing new. Criminals for years have advertised on the underground not only malware, but management services and support for banking Trojans, exploit kits and more. Researchers this week turned up a new ransomware-as-a-service operation that pushes the first ransomware cod...

EC Ruling Invalidates Safe Harbor - Now What?

In a ruling on October 7, 2015 the European Court of Justice ECJ invalidated the principal European component of the U.S.-E.U. Safe Harbor Framework when it ruled in Schrems v. Data Protection Commissioner. In the ruling the court said that the existing U.S.-EU Safe Harbor agreement, overseen by...

EU Lawmaker Wants Answers on Hacking Team Sales to Sanctioned Countries

A prominent member of the EU parliament, who has been outspoken on security and privacy issues, on Tuesday submitted a written list of questions to the European Commission about the actions of Hacking Team and whether the company had violated EU sanctions regarding sales to specific countries...

Ed Felten Joins White house as Deputy CTO

Ed Felten, a professor at Princeton University and a well-respected voice on security and privacy issues, is joining the White House as the deputy CTO. In his new role, Felten will be working under Megan Smith, the CTO of the United States and a former Google vice president. Felten has been at...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso on the End of the Patch Tuesday Era, Section 215 and More

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso talk about the end of the Patch Tuesday era for most Microsoft customers, the appeals court ruling on Section 215 metadata collection and Dennis’s idea for a security industry commission. Download: digitalunderground201.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

CVE-2014-8352

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in json.php in French National Commission on Informatics and Liberty aka CNIL CookieViz allows remote we servers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the maxdate parameter...

Sql injection

SQL injection vulnerability in info.php in French National Commission on Informatics and Liberty aka CNIL CookieViz before 1.0.1 allows remote web servers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the domain parameter...

CVE-2014-8352

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in json.php in French National Commission on Informatics and Liberty aka CNIL CookieViz allows remote we servers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the maxdate parameter...

Cybersecurity and the Financial Services Industry

2014 is the year that the US Securities and Exchange Commissions Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations OCIE is turning its focus to cybersecurity, a looming threat to any and all companies that utilize the internet. In case you missed my last post, back in March the OCIE hosted a...

Patched Code-Execution Bug Affects Most Android Users

A serious code-execution vulnerability in Android 4.3 and earlier was patched in KitKat, the latest version of the operating system. Researchers at IBM this week disclosed the nature of the vulnerability, which was privately disclosed to the Android Security Team in September and patched last...

FTC Asks Data Brokers, Congress for Transparency, Regulation

The Federal Trade Commission called on data brokers to be more transparent and give users more control over their personal information in a comprehensive report issued yesterday. The 100-plus page document, “Data Brokers: A Call for Transparency and Acccountability,” .PDF criticizes the industry...