CVE-2022-23491 Removal of TrustCor root certificate

Certifi is a curated collection of Root Certificates for validating the trustworthiness of SSL certificates while verifying the identity of TLS hosts. Certifi 2022.12.07 removes root certificates from "TrustCor" from the root store. These are in the process of being removed from Mozilla's trust...

USN-5761-1 ca-certificates update

Due to security concerns, the TrustCor certificate authority has been marked as distrusted in Mozilla's root store. This update removes the TrustCor CA certificates from the ca-certificates package...

Eufy "no cloud" security cameras streaming data to the cloud

Eufy home security cameras are currently in a spot of trouble as a result of door camera footage. This is because it turns out that data which should not have been going to the cloud was doing so anyway in certain conditions. Securing your home: a complicated proposition Insecure cameras,...

Cybersecurity threats: what awaits us in 2023?

Knowing what the future holds can help with being prepared for emerging threats better. Every year, Kaspersky experts prepare forecasts for different industries, helping them to build a strong defense against any cybersecurity threats they might face in the foreseeable future. Those predictions...

Qatar Spyware

Everyone visiting Qatar for the World Cup needs to install spyware on their phone. Everyone travelling to Qatar during the football World Cup will be asked to download two apps called Ehteraz and Hayya. Briefly, Ehteraz is an covid-19 tracking app, while Hayya is an official World Cup app used to...

7 Ways Imperva Solutions Reduce the Cost of Data Security

As we push into Q4, economic uncertainty caused by rising interest rates, as-yet unchecked inflation, and a bear market is driving many enterprises to buck the trend and tighten cyber security budgets for the last three months of 2022. The result is increased pressure to achieve data security whi...

Smart lights vulnerable to "blink and you'll miss it" attack

Over the last couple of years, key parts of our daily lives have been sliding into some form of Internet connectivity. Smartphones and other devices have become necessities. Paying bills? Those systems have moved online. Tax? Online. Wage slips and bank statements? Its paperless time. Welfare...

How Will the Metaverse Affect Cloud Security?

The metaverse is an immersive digital world of augmented reality. While supporting a virtual universe relies on cloud storage, questions arise on how this will affect cloud security. Gain valuable insight on security concerns surrounding the metaverse now and in the near future...

MetaMask: Possible to spoof Origin in "Connected Sites"

A vulnerability was discovered in MetaMask that allowed for the spoofing of the origin domain name in the "Connected Sites" list. This was caused by a CSS style sheet that set the direction to "right-to-left", which resulted in the order of characters in the domain name being messed up and...

Leaking Screen Information on Zoom Calls through Reflections in Eyeglasses

Okay, its an obscure threat. But people are researching it: Our models and experimental results in a controlled lab setting show it is possible to reconstruct and recognize with over 75 percent accuracy on-screen texts that have heights as small as 10 mm with a 720p webcam." That corresponds to 2...

Large-Scale Collection of Cell Phone Data at US Borders

The Washington Post is reporting that the US Customs and Border Protection agency is seizing and copying cell phone, tablet, and computer data from "as many as" 10,000 phones per year, including an unspecified number of American citizens. This is done without a warrant, because "…courts have long...

PT-2022-28208 · Ansi Term · Ansi Term

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: ansi term affected versions not specified Description: The advisory for this issue has been withdrawn as it does not pertain to a specific vulnerability in the code of ansi term. The maintainer has advised that this crate is deprecated and wi...

The privacy concerns of tying SIM cards to real identities

The registration of SIM cards tied to a verified identity is back in the news, off the back of large-scale phone fraud. In what some may call a knee-jerk response to a problem, there are calls to revive a legal bill and make it law. Whats happening, and what are the potential ramifications? Hitti...

Enhancing Cloud Security by Reducing Container Images Through Distroless Techniques

We analyzed the Distroless technique for reducing the size of container images and explored its capabilities to address security concerns. We provide an alternative approach to Distroless that reduces the attack surface for malicious actors targeting cloud-native applications while optimizing clo...

Threat Source newsletter (Sept. 1, 2022) — Conversations about an unborn baby's privacy

By Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter. This week marks about 90 days before my wife’s due date with our first child, a baby girl. We’re both incredibly excited and nervous at the same time, and we have much to discuss, like how to lay out the nursery, what...

You’re Not Stringer Bell, but You May Still Need a Burner Phone

Prepaid phones are looking good as privacy worries peak...

CVE-2022-0084

A flaw was found in XNIO, specifically in the notifyReadClosed method. The issue revealed this method was logging a message to another expected end. This flaw allows an attacker to send flawed requests to a server, possibly causing log contention-related performance concerns or an unwanted disk...

CVE-2022-0084

A flaw was found in XNIO, specifically in the notifyReadClosed method. The issue revealed this method was logging a message to another expected end. This flaw allows an attacker to send flawed requests to a server, possibly causing log contention-related performance concerns or an unwanted disk...

CVE-2022-0084

A flaw was found in XNIO, specifically in the notifyReadClosed method. The issue revealed this method was logging a message to another expected end. This flaw allows an attacker to send flawed requests to a server, possibly causing log contention-related performance concerns or an unwanted disk...

Event-Driven Architectures & the Security Implications

This article explores event-driven architecture EDA with a detailed definition and explains how EDA offers many essential benefits to developers. It concludes with an outline of some best practices for mitigating security concerns...