Ghost hardware. Device No.3, the Ghost Rover

The Ghost Rover is a ghost hunting tank. You control it with a mobile app. We’ve looked at a toy spy tank before, it wasn’t great from a security point of view. Let’s hope our ghost-hunting tank – which, at $200, cost almost 4 time as much as the spy tank – has considerable security improvements ...

Kaspersky: Kaspersky Password Manager allows websites to access user's address data

Note: According to https://www.securityweek.com/kaspersky-adds-password-manager-bug-bounty-program and some other sources, Kaspersky Password Manager is in scope for this program. The program description doesn't reflect this however. Summary It is possible for websites to read out addresses that...

mongose is malware

The mongose package is a piece of malware that steals environment variables and sends them to attacker controlled locations. All versions have been unpublished from the npm registry. Recommendation As this package is malware, if you find it installed in your environment, the real security concern...

Find AND Fix First- and Third-Party Issues with the Power of Real Data and Adaptive Performance

It's been well established that there is a correlation between fast digital experiences and positive business results. What users experience on a site has a direct bearing on their engagement and buying behaviour and consequently the overall success of the business. Slow page load times can lead ...

Which? Magazine recommends vulnerable smart home camera

You’ll already know that we have a keen interest in smart home camera security. Our recent work on Swann and FLIR cameras showed how it could be trivially easy to spy on people through their security cameras. Which? Magazine has a well-earned reputation for providing product reviews for consumers...

Bring your own security (BYOS): good idea or not?

We've talked about the concept of Bring Your Own Device, or BYOD, on the blog before. BYOD is a popular policy whereby employees can bring personally-owned devices, such as laptops, tablets, or smartphones, to work and use them to access data and applications. It helps to cut costs and can increa...

SHEIN-Fashion Shopping Site Suffers Data Breach Affecting 6.5 Million Users

U.S. online fashion retailer SHEIN has admitted that the company has suffered a significant data breach after unknown hackers stole personally identifiable information PII of almost 6.5 million customers. Based in North Brunswick and founded in 2008, SHEIN has become one of the largest online...

Google’s Forced Sign-in to Chrome Raises Privacy Red Flags

An update to Google Chrome’s sign-in mechanism could clear a path to compromising the privacy of users’ browser data, according to a researcher who stumbled across the change. Matthew Green, a cryptographer and professor at Johns Hopkins University, noticed his Gmail profile pic strangely and...

Chaturbate: Blind SSRF at https://chaturbate.com/notifications/update_push/

In the application at https://chaturbate.com/notifications/updatepush/ there is a functionality to subscribe any cam model which will trigger the provided request. Using this Request an attacker can execute SSRF attack and also steal sensitive Token / Keys of the internal web server Steps to...

Answers to Your Questions on Our Apps in the Mac App Store

Updated Oct. 4; please scroll down for latest information. Reports that Trend Micro is “stealing user data” and sending them to an unidentified server in China are absolutely false. Trend Micro has completed an initial investigation of a privacy concern related to some of its macOS consumer...

Fortnite’s Google Play rebuff sparks security concerns for Android users

There's been no small outbreak of chaos in mobile land recently, all because of an astonishingly popular game called Fortnite. Here's the thing: people refer to Android as "open platform," saying that, in theory, you can do what you want with it. In practice, you buy an Android phone and then...

Bucking the Norm, Mozilla to Block Tracking Cookies in Firefox

Web tracking has long been in the cross-hairs of privacy advocates, who say that marketers know entirely too much about individuals’ online activities. And to add insult to injury, the ubiquitous cookie system used to enable tracking also presents potential security threats, including cross-site...

Critical Flaws in Syringe Pump, Device Gateways Threaten Patient Safety

Two previously undocumented, critical vulnerabilities in widely deployed medical devices have sparked patient-safety and data-privacy concerns. Flaws in the Qualcomm Life Capsule Datacaptor Terminal Server and the Becton Dickinson BD Alaris TIVA Syringe Pump have been acknowledged by the vendors...

GHSA-QJ73-V688-WQXF Hijacked Environment Variables in proxy.js

The proxy.js package is a piece of malware that steals environment variables and sends them to attacker controlled locations. All versions have been unpublished from the npm registry. Recommendation As this package is malware, if you find it installed in your environment, the real security concer...

Yahoo Persists in Scanning Emails for In-Depth Ad-Targeting

While the rest of the U.S. tech industry is taking steps to assuage consumer concerns over privacy and data-harvesting, Yahoo is selling off the ability to scan more than 200 million Yahoo Mail inboxes for rich user data that might be used for marketing purposes. Verizon’s Oath unit, which owns...

Black Hat Exclusive Video: The IoT Security Threat Looms for Enterprises

IoT devices are everywhere – from connected smart-home gadgets to industrial IoT systems. And it’s not stopping anytime soon – consumer IoT spending is set to reach $62 billion in 2018, making it the fourth largest industry segment, according to market research firm IDC. Many of these IoT devices...

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...

A week in security (July 30 – August 5)

Last week, we posted a roundup of spam that may have landed in your mailbox, talked about what makes us susceptible to social engineering tactics, and took a deep dive into big data. Other news: Facebook claimed to have removed accounts that display behavior consistent with possible Russian actor...

Sen. Wyden Urges Government Ban on Adobe Flash

Citing security concerns, Sen. Ron Wyden is urging the government to create a plan to transition away from Adobe Flash before the vendor stops supporting it in 2020. To that end, the Oregon Democrat delivered a formal request to the National Security Agency and the National Institute of Standards...

Privacy Advocates Say Kelsey Smith Act Gives Police Too Much Power

The delicate balancing act between security and privacy is once again being tested. A bill making its way through Congress seeks to allow law enforcement to more easily uncover location data for cell phones from mobile carriers. The Kelsey Smith Act H.R. 5983 and S. 2973 would allow police and...