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Zoom Kills iOS App’s Data-Sharing Facebook Feature
Zoom has removed a feature in its iOS web conferencing app that was sharing analytics data with Facebook, after a report revealing the practice sparked outrage. According to the Motherboard report last week that originally disclosed the privacy issue, the transferred information included data on...
Covid-19 Spurs Facial Recognition Tracking, Privacy Fears
In the midst of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, facial recognition technology is being adopted globally as a way to track the virus’ spread. But privacy experts worry that, in the rush to implement COVID-19 tracking capabilities, important and deep rooted issues around data collection and...
Covid-19 Spurs Facial Recognition Tracking, Privacy Fears
In the midst of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, facial recognition technology is being adopted globally as a way to track the virus’ spread. But privacy experts worry that, in the rush to implement COVID-19 tracking capabilities, important and deep rooted issues around data collection and...
Emergency Surveillance During COVID-19 Crisis
Israel is using emergency surveillance powers to track people who may have COVID-19, joining China and Iran in using mass surveillance in this way. I believe pressure will increase to leverage existing corporate surveillance infrastructure for these purposes in the US and other countries. With th...
ONAP DCAE Access Control Error Vulnerability
The ONAP DCAE is a data collection, analysis, and event subsystem within the ONAP Project's suite of ONAP network management platforms. An Access Control Error vulnerability exists in ONAP DCAE Dublin and prior versions that stems from an access control error in the program. An attacker could...
Mitsubishi Electric MELQIC IU1 TCP Function Access Control Error Vulnerability
The Mitsubishi Electric MELQIC IU1 is an IU1 series data collection analyzer from Mitsubishi Electric Mitsubishi, Japan. An access control error vulnerability exists in the TCP function in the Mitsubishi Electric MELQIC IU1 IU1-1M20-D using firmware version 1.0.7 and earlier. The vulnerability...
Facebook's Download-Your-Data Tool Is Incomplete
Privacy International has the details: Key facts: Despite Facebook claim, "Download Your Information" doesn't provide users with a list of all advertisers who uploaded a list with their personal data. As a user this means you can't exercise your rights under GDPR because you don't know which...
Lawsuit Claims Google Collects Minors’ Locations, Browsing History
Google was slapped with a lawsuit this week that alleges that it has been covertly collecting data of students via its G Suite for Education program, which offers its productivity services to students for free. Google’s G Suite for Education program formerly known as Google Education offers free...
Privacy Experts Skeptical of Proposed Data Protection Agency
A new federal bureaucracy, the Data Protection Agency DPA, has been proposed to completely revamp how the U.S. government regulates data collection and misuse by big tech companies. However, while privacy experts call the agency a “good first step,” they remain skeptical about how effective it...
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: sysstat-12.3.1-1.fc31
The sysstat package contains the sar, sadf, mpstat, iostat, tapestat, pidstat, cifsiostat and sa tools for Linux. The sar command collects and reports system activity information. The information collected by sar can be saved in a file in a binary format for future inspection. The statistics...
Facebook to Pay $550M to Settle Class Action Case Over Facial Recognition
Facebook has agreed to pay $550 million to Illinois users to settle a class action lawsuit filed over the use of its face-tagging technology to collect facial-recognition data on its social media platform. The company unveiled the settlement on a quarterly financial call Wednesday, in which it...
How to Clear Data Facebook Collects About You from Other Sites and Apps
Facebook is one of the world's biggest advertising platforms, and that's because it knows a lot about you, me, and everyone. Facebook uses many tools to track people across the Internet, whether they have an account with the social networking site or not, and most of them rely on the online...
Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure 4.0 Update 1.1 (4.0.1-48)
This update provides fixes for the Backup Gateway and compute services. Vulnerability id: VSTOR-39857 A stability fix for Backup Gateway. Vulnerability id: VSTOR-38770 Fix incorrect MTU on a flat network when different MTUs set on interfaces in the same network. Vulnerability id: VSTOR-40118 Fix...
Scraping the Web Is a Powerful Tool. Clearview AI Abused It
The facial recognition startup claims it collected billions of photos from sites like Facebook and Twitter. What does the practice mean for the open web?...
The State of Vulnerabilities in 2019
As a web application firewall provider, part of our job at Imperva is to continually monitor for new security vulnerabilities. To do this, we use internal software that collects information from various data sources such as vulnerability databases, newsletters, forums, social media and more,...
Aaia - AWS Identity And Access Management Visualizer And Anomaly Finder
Aaia pronounced as shown here helps in visualizing AWS IAM and Organizations in a graph format with help of Neo4j. This helps in identifying the outliers easily. Since it is based on neo4j , one can query the graph using cypher queries to find the anomalies. Aaia also supports modules to...
CVE-2020-7058
datainput.php in Cacti 1.2.8 allows remote code execution via a crafted Input String to Data Collection - Data Input Methods - Unix - Ping Host. NOTE: the vendor has stated "This is a false alarm...
Design/Logic Flaw
datainput.php in Cacti 1.2.8 allows remote code execution via a crafted Input String to Data Collection - Data Input Methods - Unix - Ping Host. NOTE: the vendor has stated "This is a false alarm...
CVE-2020-7058
datainput.php in Cacti 1.2.8 allows remote code execution via a crafted Input String to Data Collection - Data Input Methods - Unix - Ping Host. NOTE: the vendor has stated "This is a false alarm...
