Facebook Collected Contacts from 1.5 Million Email Accounts Without Users' Permission

Not a week goes without a new Facebook blunder. Remember the most recent revelation of Facebook being caught asking users new to the social network platform for their email account passwords to verify their identity? At the time, it was suspected that Facebook might be using access to users' emai...

Researchers: Facebook's Data-Leveraging Scandal Puts Users on Notice

On the heels of reports that Facebook leveraged its users’ data in its relationships with other companies, researchers say that the tech space needs to re-assess the value of data as it relates to user privacy measures. However, they also said that users need to take steps themselves to safeguard...

Apple iOS Safari Unauthorized Access Vulnerability

Apple iOS is an operating system developed by Apple Inc. for mobile devices, of which Safari is a specialized component of the Safari browser. An unauthorized access vulnerability exists in the Safari component of Apple iOS versions prior to 12.2. An attacker could use this vulnerability to acces...

Privacy Regulations Needed for Next-Gen Cars

Driverless automobiles, long-haul trucks and military transport vehicles are on a fast track for wide deployment over the next five to 10 years. That much is clear. Vehicle manufacturers are all in, and innovation is racing forward. Meanwhile, captains of industry and political leaders are eager ...

DRUPAL-CONTRIB-2019-033

This module addresses the General Data Protection Regulation GDPR that came into effect 25th May 2018, and the EU Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications from 2012. It provides a banner where you can gather consent from the user when the website stores cookies on their computer or...

EU Cookie Compliance (GDPR Compliance) - Critical - Cross site scripting - SA-CONTRIB-2019-033

This module addresses the General Data Protection Regulation GDPR that came into effect 25th May 2018, and the EU Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications from 2012. It provides a banner where you can gather consent from the user when the website stores cookies on their computer or...

Will pay-for-privacy be the new normal?

Privacy is a human right, and online privacy should be no exception. Yet, as the US considers new laws to protect individuals’ online data, at least two proposals—one statewide law that can still be amended and one federal draft bill that has yet to be introduced—include an unwelcome bargain:...

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...

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...

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...

Google fined $57 million by France for lack of transparency and consent

The French data protection watchdog CNIL has issued its first fine of €50 million around $57 million under the European Union's new General Data Protection Regulation GDPR law that came into force in May last year. The fine has been levied on Google for "lack of transparency, inadequate informati...

How Facebook Tracks Non-Users via Android Apps

LEIPZIG, GERMANY – If you quit Facebook or never joined because of its data collecting practices the odds are good the social network is still tracking you – despite your protest. Facebook collects data of non-users of its social network via dozens of mainstream Android apps that send tracking an...

Apps on smartphones are selling and sharing our location data 24/7

By Waqas It's no surprise that the apps we download on our smartphones are tracking our movements and also transferring the information to third parties without our consent. Last year it was Google caught collecting location data of Android users even if their device's location service was off th...

Microsoft Calls For Facial Recognition Tech Regulation

As facial recognition continues to gain traction in public use cases, Microsoft on Thursday called for regulation of the technology, citing heightened concerns around privacy and consent. Over the past year, facial recognition technology has started to pop up in various government-related...

Privilege Escalation

cloudfoundry-identity-server is vulnerable to privilege escalation attacks. The vulnerability exists due to an error in validation, allowing an authenticated user to gain an OAuth token with arbitrary scopes by modifying the url and content of the consent page...

Cloud Foundry UAA release and UAA elevation of privilege vulnerabilities

Both uaa-release and uaa are different versions of Cloud Foundry's authentication and management service endpoints. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Cloud Foundry UAA release before 64.0 and UAA before 4.23.0. The vulnerability stems from an authentication error in both. An...

CVE-2018-15761

Cloud Foundry UAA release, versions prior to v64.0, and UAA, versions prior to 4.23.0, contains a validation error which allows for privilege escalation. A remote authenticated user may modify the url and content of a consent page to gain a token with arbitrary scopes that escalates their...

CVE-2018-15761 UAA Privilege Escalation

Cloud Foundry UAA release, versions prior to v64.0, and UAA, versions prior to 4.23.0, contains a validation error which allows for privilege escalation. A remote authenticated user may modify the url and content of a consent page to gain a token with arbitrary scopes that escalates their...

Microsoft Windows: Configure Default consent

This policy setting determines the default consent behavior of Windows Error Reporting. If you enable this policy setting, you can set the default consent handling for error reports. The following list describes the Consent level settings that are available in the pull-down menu in this policy...

CVE-2018-15761: UAA Privilege Escalation | Cloud Foundry

Severity Critical Vendor Cloud Foundry Foundation Affected Cloud Foundry Products and Versions You are using uaa-release versions prior to v64.0 You are using uaa versions prior to 4.23.0 Description Cloud Foundry UAA, release versions prior to v64.0, contains a validation error which allows for...