A private moment, caught by a Roomba, ended up on Facebook. Eileen Guo explains how: Lock and Code S04E03

In 2020, a photo of a woman sitting on a toilet--her shorts pulled half-way down her thighs--was shared on Facebook, and it was shared by someone whose job it was to look at that photo and, by labeling the objects in it, help train an artificial intelligence system for a vacuum. Bizarre? Yes...

Design/Logic Flaw

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.0.1 on the stable branch and version 3.1.0.beta2 on the beta and tests-passed branches, someone can use the excludetag param to filter out topics and deduce which ones were using a specific hidden tag. This affects any Discourse...

What happened in privacy in 2022

Annual reviews of any years developments in privacy rarely lend themselves to pithy wrap-ups, but 2022 was different, providing the clearest example yet for so many people--American women in particular--that their privacy was not theirs to determine, and that the often-repeated refrain that priva...

It’s Data Privacy Day: Here’s how to protect your data and become your own privacy champion

News, Security It’s Data Privacy Day: Here’s how to protect your data and become your own privacy champion Share January 27th, 2023 Hello readers! January 28 is Data Privacy Day – an annual celebration of all things data protection and online privacy! It’s an opportunity for businesses and users ...

What privacy can get you

The fight for data privacy must be won in the middle. No declaration, no call to arms, will sway the worst offenders. No public swell, no great big hack, has changed how money gets made. Corporations will continue to reap our data, package it into ad-friendly profiles, and, for a price, deliver t...

A Secure User Authentication Method – Planning is More Important than Ever

When considering authentication providers, many organizations consider the ease of configuration, ubiquity of usage, and technical stability. Organizations cannot always be judged on those metrics alone. There is an increasing need to evaluate company ownership, policies and the stability, or...

A Secure User Authentication Method – Planning is More Important than Ever

When considering authentication providers, many organizations consider the ease of configuration, ubiquity of usage, and technical stability. Organizations cannot always be judged on those metrics alone. There is an increasing need to evaluate company ownership, policies and the stability, or...

5 B2B Data Privacy Startups to Check Out in 2023

By Owais Sultan B2B data privacy startups have become increasingly important in recent years as businesses seek to protect the sensitive… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 5 B2B Data Privacy Startups to Check Out in 2023...

CVE-2023-22469

CVE-2023-22469 affects Nextcloud Deck (Deck app for Nextcloud), where unauthorized users can access cached data when obtaining a reference preview for a Deck card to which they have no access. Root cause is leakage via the reference preview cache, enabling data exposure of another user’s cards. A...

CVE-2022-41268

The CVE-2022-41268 entry concerns SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (SAP BPC) where a transaction code reserved for customers can be executed via SAP standard roles to perform unauthorized functions. Affected versions include SAP BW 750–757, DWCORE 200–300, and CPMBPC 810. Under certain con...

Indiana sues TikTok, describes it as "Chinese Trojan Horse"

On Wednesday, the State of Indiana filed two lawsuits against TikTok, Inc, the company behind the same name app, and its parent company, ByteDance. The first suit alleges TikTok's 12+ rating on the Apple App Store and a "T" for "Teen" rating in the Google Play Store and the Microsoft Store are...

What Stricter Data Privacy Laws Mean for Your Cybersecurity Policies

For today's businesses data privacy is already a big headache, and with modern privacy laws expanding to more of the world's population, regulatory compliance is on track to become a more complicated, high-stakes process touching on every aspect of an organization. In fact, Gartner predicts that ...

Snapchat gives Californians more power over their personal data

There's a new toggle switch in Snapchat that, once enabled, limits the use of sensitive personal information. TechCrunch reports that the switch is a new privacy feature Snapchat will be rolling out to comply with the California Privacy Rights Act CPRA, also known as Proposition 24. The act, whic...

Octopii - An AI-powered Personal Identifiable Information (PII) Scanner

Octopii is an open-source AI-powered Personal Identifiable Information PII scanner that can look for image assets such as Government IDs, passports, photos and signatures in a directory. Working Octopii uses Tesseract's Optical Character Recognition OCR and Keras' Convolutional Neural Networks CN...

Autonomous Vehicles Join the List of US National Security Threats

Lawmakers are growing concerned about a flood of data-hungry cars from China taking over American streets...

CVE-2022-39402

CVE-2022-39402 affects Oracle MySQL Shell (Shell: Core Client) up to version 8.0.30. The vulnerability, exploitable by a local attacker with logon to the host, may allow unauthorized read access to a subset of data in MySQL Shell. Root cause is within the Shell component; impact is limited to She...

White House unveils Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights

On Tuesday, the Biden-Harris Administration's Office of Science and Technology Policy OSTP unveiled a new Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, which lists five principles to guide the design, use, and development of intelligence-based automated systems "to protect the American public in the age of...

Former Uber Security Chief Found Guilty of Data Breach Coverup

A U.S. federal court jury has found former Uber Chief Security Officer Joseph Sullivan guilty of not disclosing a 2016 breach of customer and driver records to regulators and attempting to cover up the incident. Sullivan has been convicted on two counts: One for obstructing justice by not reporti...

CVE-2022-2628

The DSGVO All in one for WP WordPress plugin before 4.2 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfilteredhtml capability is disallowed for example in multisite setup...

Facebook users sue Meta for allegedly building "secret workaround" to Apple privacy safeguards

Last week, two Facebook users filed a class-action complaint against Meta in San Francisco's federal court, alleging the company built a "secret workaround" to Apple's safeguards that protect iPhone users from tracking. Facebook circumvents Apple's privacy rules by opening in-app browsers within...