Roombas will Spy on You

The company that sells the Roomba autonomous vacuum wants to sell the data about your home that it collects. Some questions: What happens if a Roomba user consents to the data collection and later sells his or her home -- especially furnished -- and now the buyers of the data have a map of a home...

Fuji Electric V-Server

CVSS v3 7.3 ATTENTION: Remotely exploitable Vendor: Fuji Electric Equipment: V-Server Vulnerability: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer AFFECTED PRODUCTS The following versions of V-Server, a data collection and management service, are affected: V-Server Versi...

No Data or Old Data in Reports

Challenge Reports in Veeam ONE Web Client show no data or old data when generated Cause By default Veeam ONE is configured to run collection task at 3:00 am. Any data which comes after the task completion time will not be available in reports. A failed Reporter collection tasks could cause the...

WebSites Found Collecting Data from Online Forms Even Before You Click Submit

'Do I really need to give this website so much about me?' That's exactly what I usually think after filling but before submitting a web form online asking for my personal details to continue. I am sure most of you would either close the whole tab or would edit already typed details or filled up b...

Telegraph delivers better experience with Image Manager

The Telegraph Media Group TMG is a multi-media news publisher and its titles include The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph and The Telegraph website. Today, its site serves more than 380 million pages to over 84 million unique visitors every month across the globe, featuring on average about...

Belati - The Traditional Swiss Army Knife for OSINT

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...

Netgear Now Collects Router 'Analytics Data' — Here’s How to Disable It

Is your router collects data on your network? Netgear last week pushed out a firmware update for its wireless router model NightHawk R7000 with a remote data collection feature that collects router's analytics data and sends it to the company's server. For now, the company has rolled out the...

WikiLeaks Reveals Two CIA Malware Frameworks

WikiLeaks released details on what it claims are two frameworks for malware samples dubbed AfterMindnight and Assassin, both allegedly developed by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. The revelations come amid worldwide efforts to squelch variants of the WannaCry ransomware, an offensive hackin...

Advances in Ad Blocking

Ad blockers represent the largest consumer boycott in human history. They're also an arms race between the blockers and the blocker blockers. This article discusses a new ad-blocking technology that represents another advance in this arms race. I don't think it will "put an end to the ad-blocking...

'Events data collection failure' Issue

Challenge Veeam ONE raises Events data collection failure against Veeam Backup & Replication or Hyper-V server. Cause Permissions, UAC configuration, and firewall settings need to be configured. Solution Troubleshooting Checks Verify that the account used to connect to Veeam Backup & Replication ...

"Backup performance data collection failure"

Challenge Veeam ONE raises the Backup performance data collection failure alarm. Example 1 - Performance data cannot be collected from the repository associated with Veeam Backup & Replication. Example 2 - Performance data cannot be collected from a Hyper-V host managed by Veeam Backup &...

Huawei LogCenter Denial of Service Vulnerability

Huawei LogCenter is a set of log management software from Huawei, China. A denial of service vulnerability exists in Huawei LogCenter version V100R001C10, which stems from the program's lack of legitimacy checking of incoming device information data. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to...

Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server/SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop Code Injection Vulnerability

SuSE Linux Enterprise Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop are both enterprise server versions of the Linux operating system from the American company Novell. A code injection vulnerability exists in the supportconfig data collection tool in supportutils in Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server...

Microsoft Finally Reveals What Data Windows 10 Collects From Your PC

Since the launch of Windows 10, there has been widespread concern about its data collection practices, mostly because Microsoft has been very secretive about the telemetry data it collects. Now, this is going to be changed, as Microsoft wants to be more transparent on its diagnostics data...

Verizon Rebuts Critics of Data-Collecting App

Verizon broke its silence today on what many believed would be a controversial rollout of an app made by Evie Labs called AppFlash, that had been identified by privacy advocates as spyware. The wireless carrier and broadband ISP defended itself Friday saying its critics were flat-out wrong. Veriz...

Verizon to pre-install a 'Spyware' app on its Android phones to collect user data

If the death of online privacy rules wasn't enough for Internet Service Providers and advertisers to celebrate, Verizon has planned to pre-install spyware on customers' Android devices in order to collect their personal data. The telecom giant has partnered with Evie Launcher to bring a new...

CVE-2016-1602

A code injection in the supportconfig data collection tool in supportutils in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 and 12-SP1 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 and 12-SP1 could be used by local attackers to execute code as the user running supportconfig usually root...

Google Kicks Out Largest Android Adware Family From The Play Store

With the rise in the mobile market, Adware has become one of the most prevalent mobile threats in the world. Adware has traditionally been used to aggressively push ads like banners or pop-ups on mobile screens to make money. The troublesome part is that Adware is now becoming trojanized and more...

Senator Demands Answers About CloudPets Breach

A U.S. senator has called Spiral Toys onto the carpet for its data security practices in light of the recent CloudPets breach. Sen. Bill Nelson D-FL, a ranking member of the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation and backer of a 2016 report on security and privacy concerns related to...

Smart TV Maker Fined $2.2 Million For Spying on Its 11 Million Users

Your government is spying on you! Businesses are spying on you! Your phone and browser are constantly spying on you! Even your TV is spying on you! Yes, you should also worry about your "smart" TV, as one of the world's biggest smart TV makers Vizio has been caught secretly collecting its...