How data collected in gaming can be used to breach user privacy

By Sudais Asif Gaming firms collect user data to improve user experience but how that data can be used for malicious purposes? Here's what researchers say. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How data collected in gaming can be used to breach user privacy...

MacHound - An extension to audit Bloodhound collecting and ingesting of Active Directory relationships on MacOS hosts

MacHound is an extension to the Bloodhound audting tool allowing collecting and ingesting of Active Directory relationships on MacOS hosts. MacHound collects information about logged-in users, and administrative group members on Mac machines and ingest the information into the Bloodhound database...

Kids’ Apps on Google Play Rife with Privacy Violations

About 20 percent of the Top 500 kids’ mobile apps in the Google Play store are collecting data on users in a way that likely violates the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act COPPA. These have been downloaded by a collective 492 million users, researchers said. That’s according to an analysis...

TikTok Quietly Updated Its Privacy Policy to Collect Users' Biometric Data

Popular short-form video-sharing service TikTok quietly revised its privacy policy in the U.S., allowing it to automatically collect biometric information such as faceprints and voiceprints from the content its users post on the platform. The policy change, first spotted by TechCrunch, went into...

What Is a Honeypot❓ Definition, Types and More

A honeypot is a computer system made to appear like a potential target of a cyber-attack. It may be used to track or redirect hacks away from a legitimate target. It could like wise be utilized to comprehend the strategies that cybercriminals employ. Honeypots have been around for quite awhile, y...

The vulnerability in the web interface for managing application data collection and aggregation from Cisco DNA Spaces Connector controllers and access points arises from the lack of measures to neutralize special elements used in the operating system’s command set. This allows a malicious actor to enhance their privileges and execute arbitrary commands.

The vulnerability in the web interface for managing data collection and aggregation from Cisco DNA Spaces Connector controllers and access points is related to the failure to eliminate special elements used in the operating system’s command set. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker...

The vulnerability of the data collection and aggregation application from Cisco DNA Spaces Connector’s controllers and access points relates to the implementation or modification of arguments, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges.

The vulnerability of the data collection and aggregation application from Cisco DNA Spaces Connector lies in the implementation or modification of arguments. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges...

The vulnerability in the web interface for managing application data collection and aggregation from Cisco DNA Spaces Connector controllers and access points arises from the lack of measures to neutralize special elements used in the operating system’s command set. This allows attackers to enhance their privileges and execute arbitrary commands.

The vulnerability in the web interface for managing data collection and aggregation from Cisco DNA Spaces Connector controllers and access points is related to the failure to eliminate special elements used in the operating system’s command set. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker...

openSUSE Security Update : netdata (openSUSE-2021-647)

This update for netdata fixes the following issues : - Update to 1.29.3 Release v1.29.3 is a patch release to improve the stability of the Netdata Agent. We discovered a bug that when proc.plugin attempts to collect the operstate parameter for a virtual network interface. If the chart is obsolete...

Sifchain: Sifchain Privacy Policy Webpage Uses Wordpress Default Template. Does Not Display Correct Privacy Policy.

NOTE: This report can, must and should be treated as informational! URL: https://sifchain.finance/privacy-policy/ Summary: The sifchain.finance Wordpress page contains a privacy policy, which is using a default template. This issue may open up potential legal dispute issues of website customers...

Gig Workers Being Paid $500 for Payroll Passwords

Fintech startup Argyle, a financial-services platform aimed at gig workers, is working to replace credit scores assigned by bureaus like Equifax. But closer security analysis hints that Argyle could be just the latest incarnation of an ongoing data-collection campaign, paying people to give up...

4 Major Privacy and Security Updates From Google You Should Know About

Google has announced a number of user-facing and under-the-hood changes in an attempt to boost privacy and security, including rolling out two-factor authentication automatically to all eligible users and bringing iOS-styled privacy labels to Android app listings. "Today we ask people who have...

Judge-Jury-and-Executable - A File System Forensics Analysis Scanner And Threat Hunting Tool

Features: Scan a mounted filesystem for threats right away Or gather a system baseline before an incident, for extra threat hunting ability Can be used before, during or after an incident For one to many workstations Scans the MFT, bypassing file permissions, file locks or OS file...

Facebook blocks Signal from using ads to show Instagram data collection

By Habiba Rashid Signal attempted to use the Facebook ad program to show how much data is being collected by Instagram to push targeted ads and got banned. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Facebook blocks Signal from using ads to show Instagram data collection...

Google limits which apps can access the list of installed apps on your device

Apps on Android have been able to infer the presence of specific apps, or even collect the full list of installed apps on the device. What's more, an app can also set to be notified when a new app is installed. Apart from all the usual concerns about misuse of such a data grab, the information ca...

Study: Android sends more data to Google than iOS to Apple

By Waqas Research reveals startling new findings on Android data collection which Google has already rejected. Here's what Android and iOS devices collect. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Study: Android sends more data to Google than iOS to Apple...

CVE-2021-22996

On all 7.x versions fixed in 8.0.0, when set up for auto failover, a BIG-IQ Data Collection Device DCD cluster member that receives an undisclosed message may cause the corosync process to abort. This behavior may lead to a denial-of-service DoS and impact the stability of a BIG-IQ high...

CVE-2021-22996

On all 7.x versions fixed in 8.0.0, when set up for auto failover, a BIG-IQ Data Collection Device DCD cluster member that receives an undisclosed message may cause the corosync process to abort. This behavior may lead to a denial-of-service DoS and impact the stability of a BIG-IQ high...

Security Analysis Clears TikTok of Censorship, Privacy Accusations

Nebulous privacy and censorship criticisms about video social-media app TikTok have been swirling for months. Security analysts from CitizenLab are the first to collect real data on the platform’s source code, and reported that TikTok meets reasonable standards of security and privacy. The...

Google Reveals What Personal Data Chrome and Its Apps Collect On You

Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo called out rival Google for "spying" on users after the search giant updated its flagship app to spell out the exact kinds of information it collects for personalization and marketing purposes. "After months of stalling, Google finally revealed how much...