Google Fined $170 Million For Violating Kids' Privacy On YouTube

Google has finally agreed to pay $170 million fine to settle allegations by the Federal Trade Commission and the New York attorney general that its YouTube service earned millions by illegally harvesting personal information from children without their parents' consent. The settlement requires...

Google Fined $170 Million For Violating Kids' Privacy On YouTube

Google has finally agreed to pay $170 million fine to settle allegations by the Federal Trade Commission and the New York attorney general that its YouTube service earned millions by illegally harvesting personal information from children without their parents' consent. The settlement requires...

Chinese Face-Swapping App ZAO Sparks Privacy Concerns After Going Crazily Viral

What could be more exciting than seeing yourself starring alongside your favorite actor in a movie, music video, or TV program? Yes, that's possible—well, kind of, by using a new AI-based deepfake app that has gone viral in China over this weekend, climbing to the top of the free apps list in the...

Fedora Update for nfdump FEDORA-2019-9013b5e75d

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2019 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

Use This Privacy Tool to View and Clear Your 'Off-Facebook Activity' Data

Well, here we have great news for Facebook users, which is otherwise terrible for marketers and publishers whose businesses rely on Facebook advertisement for re-targeted conversations. Following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook has taken several privacy measures in the past one year wit...

Why XDR Is A Big Deal, and Is Different from SIEM and Platforms

In Jon Clay’s post, he does a great job of explaining the evolution from EDR to XDR. In short, he explained that Endpoint Detection and Response EDR is great, but that having sources of information beyond endpoint is better. The ‘X’ in XDR is essentially ‘many’ or whatever we can add to provide a...

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...

Viral FaceApp Unnecessarily Requests Access to Users' Facebook Friends List

FaceApp—the AI-powered photo-morphing app that recently gone viral for its age filter but hit the headlines for its controversial privacy policy—has been found collecting the list of your Facebook friends for no reason. The Russian-made FaceApp has been around since the spring of 2017 but taken...

Viral FaceApp Unnecessarily Requests Access to Users' Facebook Friends List

FaceApp—the AI-powered photo-morphing app that recently gone viral for its age filter but hit the headlines for its controversial privacy policy—has been found collecting the list of your Facebook friends for no reason. The Russian-made FaceApp has been around since the spring of 2017 but taken...

FaceApp scares point to larger data collection problems

Last week, if you thumbed your way through Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, you likely saw altered photos of your friends with a few extra decades written onto their faces—wrinkles added, skin sagged, hair bereft of color. Has 2019 really been that long? Not really. The photos are the work of...

Hackers Expose Russian FSB Cyberattack Projects

More nation-state activity in cyberspace, this time from Russia: Per the different reports in Russian media, the files indicate that SyTech had worked since 2009 on a multitude of projects since 2009 for FSB unit 71330 and for fellow contractor Quantum. Projects include: Nautilus -- a project for...

Malicious Package

Several python packages are malicious packages. The malicious libraries attempt to either collect data such as system information of the environment or open a reverse shell on remote workstations...

CVE-2019-3741

Dell EMC Unity and UnityVSA versions prior to 5.0.0.0.5.116 contain a plain-text password storage vulnerability. A Unisphere user’s including the admin privilege user password is stored in a plain text in Unity Data Collection bundle logs files for troubleshooting. A local authenticated attacker...

CVE-2019-3741

Dell EMC Unity and UnityVSA versions prior to 5.0.0.0.5.116 contain a plain-text password storage vulnerability. A Unisphere user’s including the admin privilege user password is stored in a plain text in Unity Data Collection bundle logs files for troubleshooting. A local authenticated attacker...

CVE-2019-3741

Dell EMC Unity and UnityVSA versions prior to 5.0.0.0.5.116 contain a plain-text password storage vulnerability. A Unisphere user’s including the admin privilege user password is stored in a plain text in Unity Data Collection bundle logs files for troubleshooting. A local authenticated attacker...

The vulnerability of the PowerSCADA Expert system for data collection and process control allows a perpetrator to gain access to user account information due to insufficient protection of registration data.

The vulnerability of the PowerSCADA Expert system for data collection and process control is related to insufficient protection of registration data. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow attackers to gain access to user account information...

1,300 Popular Android Apps Access Data Without Proper Permissions

Over 1,300 popular Android apps defy user permissions and gather sensitive data with no consent, according to a study by a coalition of academics from the International Computer Science Institute. The report examined popular mobile apps available through the U.S. version of the Google Play store,...

Cynet Launches Free Offering For Incident Response Service Providers

More and more, organizations take the route of outsourcing incident response to Managed Security Service Providers. This trend is distinct regardless of the organization's cyber maturity level and can be found across a wide range of cyber maturity, from small companies with no dedicated security...

Cynet Launches Free Offering For Incident Response Service Providers

More and more, organizations take the route of outsourcing incident response to Managed Security Service Providers. This trend is distinct regardless of the organization's cyber maturity level and can be found across a wide range of cyber maturity, from small companies with no dedicated security...

The vulnerability of the GPS logger data collection program, related to initialization errors, allows a violator to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability of the GPS logger data collection program is related to initialization errors. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a hacker to cause the program to terminate abnormally...