Apple Suspends Siri Program After Privacy Backlash

Apple is suspending a program that lets contractors listen in on Siri voice recordings after facing a rain of backlash regarding the privacy implications of the program. The suspension comes after a report in The Guardian last week outlining how contractors regularly listen to intimate voice...

Amazon Alexa, Google Home Are On a Collision Course With Regulation

Voice assistants are growing rapidly in popularity — but at the same time, the privacy concerns and security issues with popular home assistant devices like Amazon Echo and Google Home are peaking too. Earlier in July, Amazon came under fire after acknowledging that it retains the voice recording...

Google Home Captures Porn and More, Unbeknownst to Users

Google Home smart speakers and the Google Assistant virtual assistant have been caught eavesdropping without permission — capturing and recording highly personal audio of domestic violence, confidential business calls — and even some users asking their smart speakers to play porn on their connect...

Amazon Admits Alexa Voice Recordings Saved Indefinitely

Amazon has acknowledged that it retains the voice recordings and transcripts of customers’ interactions with its Alexa voice assistant indefinitely. The admission raises questions about how long companies should be able to save highly-personal data collected from voice assistant devices. After U....

How to Limit How Long Google Keeps Your Data

Google has a new feature that lets you delete your web and app activity after three months. Here's how to use it...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: openstack-cinder security and bug fix update

An update for openstack-cinder is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 Newton. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each...

Information Disclosure

openstack-cinder is vulnerable to information disclosure. As data is retained after deletion of a ScaleIO volume, newly created volumes in certain storage volume configurations contains data from the previous volume. This leads to confidential information leakage between tenants...

Predefined Setting Values Configured on NetScaler MAS

This article list the predefined setting values configured on NetScaler MAS. NetScaler MAS Prune settings Number of days to keep data is default 15 Pruning happens everyday at 00:00 for Events, Audit Log, Task Log tables NetScaler MAS Backup Settings Every 12 hours NetScaler MAS will back up...

Data Protection and the GDPR Job Market

The May 2018 deadline for full GDPR compliance will be upon us all before we know it. The GDPR will affect all organizations—regardless of their location—that handle personal data coming out of the EU. Article 37 of the GDPR requires organizations to retain a data protection officer DPO if, among...

Roombas will Spy on You

The company that sells the Roomba autonomous vacuum wants to sell the data about your home that it collects. Some questions: What happens if a Roomba user consents to the data collection and later sells his or her home -- especially furnished -- and now the buyers of the data have a map of a home...

Code injection

IBM Maximo Asset Management 7.1, 7.5, and 7.6 could allow a local user to obtain sensitive information due to inappropriate data retention of attachments. IBM X-Force ID: 123299...

CVE-2017-1176

CVE-2017-1176 affects IBM Maximo Asset Management 7.1, 7.5, and 7.6. It is a local information-disclosure vulnerability caused by inappropriate retention of attachments, allowing a local user to obtain sensitive information. The NVD notes partial confidentiality impact (C) with low overall severi...

IBM Maximo Asset Management Local Information Disclosure Vulnerability

IBM Maximo Asset Management is a comprehensive asset lifecycle and maintenance management solution from IBM USA. The solution is capable of managing all types of assets, such as facilities, transportation, etc., on a single platform with a single point of control for these assets. A local...

Yahoo Ordered to Explain Data Gathering Procedures in Deleted Email Case

Yahoo has been given until August 31 to comply with a court order asking how the company was able to recover emails that were presumed deleted. Yahoo’s policy guide claims it cannot recover emails from a user’s account that have been deleted but defense lawyers for a convicted U.K. drug trafficke...

CVE-2015-1970

The CVE-2015-1970 entry concerns IBM WebSphere DataPower XC10 appliances (versions 2.1 to 2.1.0.3 and 2.5 to 2.5.0.4) where data is retained on SSD cards. The root cause is data being stored on SSDs in a way that could allow physically proximate attackers to obtain sensitive information by removi...

Modifying Data Retention Policy in Veeam ONE

Purpose This article documents how to adjust the retention of collected data stored within the Veeam ONE database. Note: When retention is enforced, data within the database is removed, but the actual database file will not become smaller. To cause the Veeam ONE database file to become smaller on...

Major Carriers AT&T, Comcast Continue to Lag in EFF Privacy Report

While many companies have made strides when it comes to how they handle transparency and government requests post-Snowden, major telecoms such as AT&T and Verizon continue to lag behind. Despite publishing transparency reports within the last year, the two companies scored the lowest on the...

Privacy Advocates Anxious Ahead of Obama NSA Speech

It’s been more than seven months since Edward Snowden began feeding stolen NSA documents to reporters, and in that time, virtually everyone in Washington who could find a microphone or keyboard has voiced an opinion on the agency’s methods and Snowden’s actions. Everyone except President Barack...

Snapchat Complies with Govt., Sends Images to Law Enforcement

Snapchat cleared up any doubts users may have had about the privacy surrounding images sent back and forth on its photo messaging service when the company confirmed this week that it has shared some images with law enforcement. Snapchat, started in 2011, has gained popularity over the last year –...

Barracuda Backup - Multiple Web Vulnerabilities

Document Title: =============== Barracuda Backup - Multiple Web Vulnerabilities References Source: ==================== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=783 BARRACUDA NETWORK SECURITY ID: BNSEC-881 Release Date: ============= 2013-06-14 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID:...