Recent App Issues Reveal Facebook’s Struggles to Temper Data Privacy Woes

Facebook was hit with a double privacy punch regarding data privacy on Wednesday. First, Facebook acknowledged in a public post that one of the apps on its platform, myPersonality, inappropriately shared 4 million users’ data with researchers. Also on Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal reported...

Hardcoded credentials

Uber Technologies, Inc. UberEATS: Uber for Food Delivery, 1.108.10001, 2017-11-02, iOS application uses a hard-coded key for encryption. Data stored using this key can be decrypted by anyone able to access this key...

A Bug in Chrome Gives Bad Actors License to Play ‘20 Questions’ with Your Private Data

In a 2013 interview with The Telegraph, Eric Schmidt, then CEO of Google was quoted as saying: “You have to fight for your privacy or lose it.” Five years later, with the ‘Cambridge Analytica’ data breach scandal fresh in our memory, Eric Schmidt’s statement rings as a self-evident truth. Similar...

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...

Onwards and Upwards: Our GDPR Journey and Looking Ahead

At Imperva, our world revolves around data security, data protection, and data privacy. From our newest recruits to the most seasoned members of the executive team, we believe that customer privacy is key. For the better part of the last two years, Imperva has laid the foundation for our complian...

Identifying People by Metadata

Interesting research: "You are your Metadata: Identification and Obfuscation of Social Media Users using Metadata Information," by Beatrice Perez, Mirco Musolesi, and Gianluca Stringhini. Abstract: Metadata are associated to most of the information we produce in our daily interactions and...

figo.io XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-654964 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| figo.io Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

Security Glitch in IoT Camera Enabled Remote Monitoring

Swann has patched a flaw in its connected cameras that would allow a remote attacker to access their video feeds. A research team, consisting of Andrew Tierney, Chris Wade and Ken Munro from Pen Test Partners, as well as security researchers Alan Woodward, Scott Helme and Vangelis Stykas, develop...

Threatpost News Wrap Podcast For July 27

Threatpost’s Tom Spring and Lindsey O’Donnell sit down to discuss the top breaking news from the week. Stories of importance include shipping giant COSCO being hit with a ransomware attack, a Senator requesting a government mandate to stop using Adobe Flash by August 2019, and Facebook’s outgoing...

Facebook Security Exec Calls for Tightened Data Privacy

Facebook’s outgoing chief information security officer Alex Stamos has urged the social media company to rethink its approach to data privacy. The executive, whose exit has been widely reported on for months, wrote an internal note to staff that called for changes in how Facebook approaches data...

Semmle: Email Not Completely Deleted after Deleting an account

Description: If one of the user deletes their account it should be fully deleted in account while semmle doesnt delete it completely. Steps To Reproduce: Register email1 After registering, confirm your account. once email1 is confirmed. add another email which we will name as email2 Now Verify th...

Facebook Suspends Analytics Firm Over Surveillance Concerns

Online data privacy is again being thrust into the spotlight after Facebook announced Friday it suspended yet another analytics firm due to concerns about the collection and sharing of data. The company is launching an investigation into whether Boston-based Crimson Hexagon’s collection of public...

How to block ads like a pro

In part one of this series, we had a look at a few reasons why you should be blocking online advertisements on your network and devices. From malvertising attacks and privacy-invading tracking systems to just being an outright annoyance, online ads and trackers are a nuisance that provides an...

Apple Transfers Chinese Users' iCloud Data to State-Controlled Data Centers

There's terrible news for Apple users in China. Apple's Chinese data center partner has transferred iCloud data, belonging to 130 million China-based users, to a cloud storage service managed by a state-owned mobile telecom provider—raising concerns about privacy. Back in February this year, Appl...

Need for Speed: Optimizing Data Masking Performance and Providing Secure Data for DevOps Users

Let’s start with a pretty common life experience -- you identify a need e.g., transportation, you evaluate your options e.g., evaluate car manufacturers, various features, pricing, etc., and you decide to purchase e.g., vehicle X. This process repeats itself over and over again regardless of the...

This Week in Security News: Bloomingdale’s and Claudette

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, Timehop, Macy’s, Bloomingdale’s, and Domain Factory announce a system-wide breach. Also, a new AI tool, Claudette, is holding tech companies...

Information Disclosure

moodle/moodle is affected by an information disclosure vulnerability. There are no options to omit logs from data privacy exports which can contain information about the requester...

Design/Logic Flaw

A flaw was found in moodle before versions 3.5.1, 3.4.4, 3.3.7. No option existed to omit logs from data privacy exports, which may contain details of other users who interacted with the requester...

CVE-2018-10889

A flaw was found in moodle before versions 3.5.1, 3.4.4, 3.3.7. No option existed to omit logs from data privacy exports, which may contain details of other users who interacted with the requester...

CVE-2018-10889

A flaw was found in moodle before versions 3.5.1, 3.4.4, 3.3.7. No option existed to omit logs from data privacy exports, which may contain details of other users who interacted with the requester...