DNA testing company failed to protect sensitive genetic and health data, says FTC

DNA testing has long been a hot-button issue for security and privacy. Concerns about everything from law enforcement and data retention to job offers and insurance have all been examined at great length. With millions of people signing up to use these services, it was only a matter of time befor...

How Ticket Scalping Impacts Asia’s Live Entertainment Industry

Asia’s booming live entertainment industry has recently been plagued by a growing problem of ticket scalping. The term refers to the act of purchasing live event tickets in bulk by individuals, often through the use of automation aka bots, to later resell them at exorbitant prices. The issue isn’...

FTC Slams Amazon with $30.8M Fine for Privacy Violations Involving Alexa and Ring

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission FTC has fined Amazon a cumulative $30.8 million over a series of privacy lapses regarding its Alexa assistant and Ring security cameras. This comprises a $25 million penalty for breaching children's privacy laws by retaining their Alexa voice recordings for...

FTC Slams Amazon with $30.8M Fine for Privacy Violations Involving Alexa and Ring

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission FTC has fined Amazon a cumulative $30.8 million over a series of privacy lapses regarding its Alexa assistant and Ring security cameras. This comprises a $25 million penalty for breaching children's privacy laws by retaining their Alexa voice recordings for...

Duplicate Advisory: Keycloak vulnerable to untrusted certificate validation

Duplicate Advisory This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-5cc8-pgp5-7mpm. This link is maintained to preserve external references. Original Advisory A flaw was found in Keycloak. This flaw depends on a non-default configuration "Revalidate Client Certificate" to be...

Google to pay $40m for "deceptive and unfair" location tracking practices

Google is going to pay $39.9 million to Washington State to put to rest a lawsuit about its location tracking practices which has been in play since last year. Google was accused of "misleading consumers" by State Attorney General Bob Ferguson. From the AG press release: Attorney General Bob...

FTC tackles tech support scams by chasing payment processor firms

A multinational payment processing company and two of its executives are facing a potential $650k fine as a result of allegedly processing credit card payments for tech support scammers. While this fine isnt exactly massive in comparison to some of the privacy breaches and other incidents seen do...

Fedora 38 : thunderbird (2023-a9c17dff60)

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-a9c17dff60 advisory. Update to 102.9.1 ; https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2023-12/ ; https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/102.9.1/releasenotes/...

CVE-2022-36059

matrix-js-sdk is a Matrix messaging protocol Client-Server SDK for JavaScript. In versions prior to 19.4.0 events sent with special strings in key places can temporarily disrupt or impede the matrix-js-sdk from functioning properly, potentially impacting the consumer's ability to process data...

CVE-2023-28427

matrix-js-sdk is a Matrix messaging protocol Client-Server SDK for JavaScript. In versions prior to 24.0.0 events sent with special strings in key places can temporarily disrupt or impede the matrix-js-sdk from functioning properly, potentially impacting the consumer's ability to process data...

CVE-2022-36059 Prototype pollution in matrix-js-sdk

matrix-js-sdk is a Matrix messaging protocol Client-Server SDK for JavaScript. In versions prior to 19.4.0 events sent with special strings in key places can temporarily disrupt or impede the matrix-js-sdk from functioning properly, potentially impacting the consumer's ability to process data...

CVE-2022-36059

matrix-js-sdk is a Matrix messaging protocol Client-Server SDK for JavaScript. In versions prior to 19.4.0 events sent with special strings in key places can temporarily disrupt or impede the matrix-js-sdk from functioning properly, potentially impacting the consumer's ability to process data...

Even Top-Ranked Android Apps in Google Play Store Provide Misleading Data Safety Labels

An investigation into data safety labels for Android apps available on the Google Play Store has uncovered "serious loopholes" that allow apps to provide misleading or outright false information. The study, conducted by the Mozilla Foundation as part of its Privacy Not Included initiative, compar...

CVE-2022-34384: Execution with Unnecessary Privileges

Dell SupportAssist Client Consumer version 3.11.1 and prior, SupportAssist Client Commercial version 3.2 and prior, Dell Command | Update, Dell Update, and Alienware Update versions before 4.5 contain a Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in the Advanced Driver Restore component. A local...

PT-2023-13370

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Dell SupportAssist Client Consumer versions 3.11.1 and prior Dell SupportAssist Client Commercial versions 3.2 and prior Dell Command | Update versions prior to 4.5 Dell Update versions prior to 4.5 Alienware Update versions prior to 4.5...

SaaS Security Best Practices: Safeguard Consumer Data

By Owais Sultan In todays SaaS market, security is of utmost importance. Online commerce has undergone major changes over the past… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: SaaS Security Best Practices: Safeguard Consumer Data...

We Don’t Just Patch – We Hack

We Don’t Just Patch – We Hack By Trellix · February 1, 2023 This blog was written by Douglas McKee If you have read any security advisories, technology news articles or even our very own Bug Report, you have continually been bombarded with the message to patch, patch, patch! Patching is critical ...

40% of online shops tricking users with “dark patterns”

The European Commission has been looking at retail websites to see if they're misleading consumers with "dark patterns". Spoiler: Yes, they are. The Commission, along with the national consumer protection authorities of 23 EU member states, plus Norway and Iceland, have released the results of...

GHSA-QGJQ-HRHG-F24H Missing permission check in Jenkins RabbitMQ Consumer Plugin

A missing permission check in Jenkins RabbitMQ Consumer Plugin 2.8 and earlier allows attackers with Overall/Read permission to connect to an attacker-specified AMQPS URL using attacker-specified username and password...

CVE-2023-24447

A cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerability in Jenkins RabbitMQ Consumer Plugin 2.8 and earlier allows attackers to connect to an attacker-specified AMQPS URL using attacker-specified username and password...