My Body, My Data Act would lock down reproductive and sexual health data

A new bill entered into both the House of Representatives and the Senate proposes the strongest Federal data privacy protections yet for an increasingly scrutinized form of data in the United States—reproductive and sexual health data. The “My Body, My Data Act of 2022” was announced in early Jun...

systemtap bug fix and enhancement update

An update is available for systemtap. This update affects Rocky Linux 9. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list SystemTap is an instrumentation system for systems running the Linux kernel...

Splunk Command Injection Vulnerability

Splunk is a suite of data collection and analysis software from Splunk, Inc. The software is primarily used to collect, index, and analyze the data it generates, including data generated by all IT systems and infrastructures physical, virtual machines, and cloud. A command injection vulnerability...

Splunk Resource Permission Assignment Error Vulnerability

Splunk is a suite of data collection and analysis software from Splunk, Inc. The software is primarily used to collect, index, and analyze the data it generates, including data generated by all IT systems and infrastructure physical, virtual machines, and cloud.A resource privilege assignment err...

New Privacy Framework for IoT Devices Gives Users Control Over Data Sharing

A newly designed privacy-sensitive architecture aims to enable developers to create smart home apps in a manner that addresses data sharing concerns and puts users in control over their personal information. Dubbed Peekaboo by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, the system "leverages an...

Coffee app in hot water for constant tracking of user location

A mobile app violated Canadas privacy laws via some pretty significant overreach with its tracking of device owners. The violation will apparently not bring the app owners, Tim Hortons, any form of punishment. However, the fallout from this incident may hopefully serve as a warning to others with...

Period-Tracking and Fertility Apps Can Put Women Seeking Abortions at Risk

Apps collect sensitive data that could be subpoenaed by law enforcement or sold by data brokers...

Your Tim Hortons Coffee App Knew Where You Were at All Times

The Canada-based company illegally collected “vast amounts of location data,” such as every time a person entered or left their home, workplace, or another coffee shop...

ExpressVPN Removes VPN Servers in India Rejecting Data Collection Law

By Deeba Ahmed The new law requires service providers to store users web usage patterns, designated IP addresses, etc. for the… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: ExpressVPN Removes VPN Servers in India Rejecting Data Collection Law...

The Race to Hide Your Voice

Voice recognition—and data collection—have boomed in recent years. Researchers are figuring out how to protect your privacy...

Information Disclosure Vulnerability in UTS Unified Threat Probe of Green Alliance Technology Group Co.

UTS Unified Threat Probe is to realize the collection and parsing work of traffic data, decoding, uploading and original traffic pcap data retention layer by layer, and support intrusion detection, virus detection and star sucking engine, etc., to provide unified threat detection capability. Gree...

Command Injection

Overview magento/community-edition is a modern cloud eCommerce platform. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Command Injection via the Data collection endpoint. An attacker can execute arbitrary commands on the underlying system by uploading a specially crafted file. Remediation...

GHSA-QMQ6-JPVG-J547 Magento is affected by an os command injection via the Data collection endpoint

Magento Commerce versions 2.4.2 and earlier, 2.4.2-p1 and earlier and 2.3.7 and earlier are affected by an Improper Neutralization of Special Elements Used In A Command via the Data collection endpoint. An attacker with admin privileges can upload a specially crafted file to achieve remote code...

Magento is affected by an os command injection via the Data collection endpoint

Magento Commerce versions 2.4.2 and earlier, 2.4.2-p1 and earlier and 2.3.7 and earlier are affected by an Improper Neutralization of Special Elements Used In A Command via the Data collection endpoint. An attacker with admin privileges can upload a specially crafted file to achieve remote code...

Elastic APM agent for Python client CGI proxy redirection flaw

When the Elastic APM agent for Python versions before 5.1.0 is run as a CGI script, there is a variable name clash flaw if a remote attacker can control the proxy header. This could result in an attacker redirecting collected APM data to a proxy of their choosing...

Hunting down your data with Whitney Merrill: Lock and Code S03E11

Depending on where you live, you can ask a company to hand over all the data it has collected about you and, in a matter of weeks as mandated by law, that company has to fork that information over. Whether the company will abide on time, however, is a different story. In the European Union, the...

Websites that Collect Your Data as You Type

A surprising number of websites include JavaScript keyloggers that collect everything you type as you type it, not just when you submit a form. Researchers from KU Leuven, Radboud University, and University of Lausanne crawled and analyzed the top 100,000 websites, looking at scenarios in which a...

Thousands of Top Websites See What You Type—Before You Hit Submit

A surprising number of the top 100,000 websites effectively include keyloggers that covertly snag everything you type into a form...

India to Collect User Data from VPNs, Data Centers, and Cloud Service Providers

By Deeba Ahmed The Indian government recently passed a new law that mandates all internet service providers to collect and store… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: India to Collect User Data from VPNs, Data Centers, and Cloud Service Providers...

CVE-2022-29937

USU Oracle Optimization before 5.17.5 allows authenticated DataCollection users to achieve agent root access because some common OS commands are blocked but for example an OS command for base64 decoding is not blocked. NOTE: this is not an Oracle Corporation product...