Another preinstalled app found on OnePlus that could collect user data

By Waqas A couple of days ago it was reported that an This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Another preinstalled app found on OnePlus that could collect user data...

ALPINE-CVE-2017-16820

The csnmpreadtable function in snmp.c in the SNMP plugin in collectd before 5.6.3 is susceptible to a double free in a certain error case, which could lead to a crash or potentially have other impact...

Network Interference Detection Tool: ooniprobe

OONI, the Open Observatory of Network Interference, is a global observation network which aims is to collect high quality data using open methodologies, using Free and Open Source Software FL/OSS to share observations and data about the various types, methods, and amounts of network tampering in...

Privacy Clouds Form Over Mantistek Gaming Keyboard

Allegations a keylogger is embedded in the software of a popular gaming keyboard are dogging PC peripheral maker Mantistek. The Chinese manufacturer is facing a blizzard of accusations that its popular GK2 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard has spyware installed and is sending keystroke data back to the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: check-mk-1.2.8p26-1.fc25

check-mk is a general purpose Nagios-plugin for retrieving data. It adopts a new approach for collecting data from operating systems and network compone nts. It obsoletes NRPE, checkbyssh, NSClient, and checksnmp and it has many benefits, the most important are a significant reduction of CPU usag...

Veeam ONE Business Shows Irrelevant Data

Challenge Veeam ONE Business View shows outdated data or no data at all Cause Veeam ONE Reporter collection task has stuck or failed Solution Running data collection manually You can run data collection for Veeam ONE Reporter and Veeam ONE Business View manually. This can be necessary when...

Veeam ONE: SQL Express Maximum Database Size Limitation

Challenge When the Veeam ONE database is located in a SQL Express instance, if the database reaches the maximum allowed size, Veeam ONE will not be able to continue data collection, thus affecting data accuracy and alarm generation. Cause If you choose to host the Veeam ONE database on Microsoft...

Traditional OSINT Swiss Army Knife: Belati

Belati is tool for Collecting Public Data & Public Document from Website and other service for OSINT purpose. This tools is inspired by Foca and Datasploit for OSINT. What Belati can do? WhoisIndonesian TLD Support Banner Grabbing Subdomain Enumeration Service Scanning for all Subdomain Machine W...

OnePlus Secretly Collects Way More Data Than It Should — Here’s How to Disable It

There is terrible news for all OnePlus lovers. Your OnePlus handset, running OxygenOS—the company's custom version of the Android operating system, is collecting way more data on its users than it requires. A recent blog post published today by security researcher Christopher Moore on his website...

BloodHound - Six Degrees of Domain Admin

BloodHound is a single page Javascript web application, built on top of Linkurious, compiled with Electron, with a Neo4j database fed by a PowerShell ingestor. BloodHound uses graph theory to reveal the hidden and often unintended relationships within an Active Directory environment. Attacks can...

The Data Tinder Collects, Saves, and Uses

Under European law, service providers like Tinder are required to show users what information they have on them when requested. This author requested, and this is what she received: Some 800 pages came back containing information such as my Facebook "likes," my photos from Instagram even after I...

CVE-2017-10793

The AT&T U-verse 9.2.2h0d83 firmware for the Arris NVG589, NVG599, and unspecified other devices, when IP Passthrough mode is not used, configures an sbdc.ha WAN TCP service on port 61001 with the bdctest account and the bdctest password, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive...

Anonymous Messaging App Sarahah to Halt Collection of User Data With Next Update

Sarahah, the anonymous messaging app that shot to the top of app stores earlier this summer, says it plans to remove a feature that uploads users’ contacts, including phone numbers and email addresses to the company’s servers, in the next update. The app’s creator, Zain al-Abidin Tawfiq, caught...

Here's How CIA Spies On Its Intelligence Liaison Partners Around the World

WikiLeaks has just published another Vault 7 leak, revealing how the CIA spies on their intelligence partners around the world, including FBI, DHS and the NSA, to covertly collect data from their systems. The CIA offers a biometric collection system—with predefined hardware, operating system, and...

Over 500 Android Apps On Google Play Store Found Spying On 100 Million Users

Over 500 different Android apps that have been downloaded more than 100 million times from the official Google Play Store found to be infected with a malicious ad library that secretly distributes spyware to users and can perform dangerous operations. Since 90 per cent of Android apps is free to...

Open Distributed Threat Intelligence: Yeti

Yeti is a platform meant to organize observables, indicators of compromise, TTPs, and knowledge on threats in a single, unified repository. Yeti will also automatically enrich observables e.g. resolve domains, geolocate IPs so that you don’t have to. Yeti provides an interface for humans shiny...

Complaint Alleges Hotspot Shield VPN Engages in Deceptive Trade Practices

A complaint has been filed with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission alleging that a free VPN service marketed as a provider of secure and anonymous internet access shares user data and redirects traffic to partners, including online advertising companies. The Center for Democracy and Technology CDT...

Hotspot Shield VPN Accused of Spying On Its Users' Web Traffic

"Privacy" is a bit of an Internet buzzword nowadays as the business model of the Internet has now shifted towards data collection. Although Virtual Private Network VPN is one of the best solutions to protect your privacy and data on the Internet, you should be more vigilant while choosing a VPN...

Me on Restaurant Surveillance Technology

I attended the National Restaurant Association exposition in Chicago earlier this year, and looked at all the ways modern restaurant IT is spying on people. But there's also a fundamentally creepy aspect to much of this. One of the prime ways to increase value for your brand is to use the Interne...

Android Spyware Still Collects PII Despite Outcry

UPDATE LAS VEGAS—Shanghai Adups Technology Co. was roundly criticized Wednesday during a Black Hat session for continuing to use spyware called Adups on at least two Android handset makers’ phones. Researchers said the company was still collecting personal identifiable information without user...