McDonald’s Email Blast Includes Password to Monopoly Game Database

McDonald’s UK Monopoly VIP game kicked off at the end of August, and a recent round of emails sent to winners of the game’s various prizes included more than a coupon for free fries. The franchise accidentally inserted passwords for a McDonald’s server that hosted information tied to the UK...

Ragnar Locker Gang Warns Victims Not to Call the FBI

All that the FBI/ransomware negotiators/investigators do is muck things up, so we’re going to publish your stuff if you call for help, the Ragnar Locker ransomware gang announced on its darknet data-leak site. In an announcement posted this week and seen by Bleeping Computer, the ransomware...

Tor vs VPN—What is the difference?

Our data is a precious commodity and there are plenty of people who would like to get their hands on it, from spouses and marketing teams to crooks and state-sponsored spies. Because of that, tools like Tor and Virtual Private Networks VPNs are growing in popularity. But while both tools can...

Financial Services: Web Application Attacks Grow by 38% In First Half of 2021

During his career in the middle of the last century, professional bank robber Willie Sutton made off with an estimated $2 million in stolen money. Urban legend has it that when a journalist asked Sutton why he robbed banks, he replied, “That’s where the money is.” In later interviews, Sutton...

How your application and data security strategy can help you complete a high level FFIEC CAT assessment

More than ever, financial institutions depend on web applications to maintain operations and partner with other enterprises to provide services to customers, but the significant rise in the number of cyber attacks targeted at this industry in the last few years has the potential to undermine...

CVE-2021-37705

Affected software : OneFuzz self-hosted fuzzing platform. Vulnerability : Starting with OneFuzz 2.12.0 or greater, an incomplete authorization check allows an authenticated user from any Azure AD tenant to make authorized API calls on a vulnerable OneFuzz instance when deployed with the non-defau...

Zoom Settlement: An $85M Business Case for Security Investment

Ransomware isn’t the only way lax security can cost a business eight figures in damage. Zoom just lost an $85 million class-action lawsuit this week for its cybersecurity missteps, proving that even the most essential and relied-upon brands can be tripped up by inadequate security. More...

‘I’m Calling About Your Car Warranty’, aka PII Hijinx

LAS VEGAS – When you sign up on a new website, where does that information go? Some researchers decided to find out. On Wednesday, they released their preliminary information at a Black Hat USA 2021 session called Use and Abuse of Personal Information. Researchers created 300 fake identities,...

Thinking about data privacy strategically: four key questions

It wasnt that long ago when the concept of data privacy was mostly a legal question. Privacy obligations arose almost exclusively from regulations, so most organizations delegated the problem to legal counsel, who then tackled the problem through policy and contract language. At best, it was a co...

Mail.ru: Read-only user can edit user segments.

Domain -- https://tracker.my.com/segment/list Testing environment -- Open two separate browsers with two independent accounts created at https://tracker.my.com/ Steps to reproduce -- In browser A 1. Log in to your account at https://tracker.my.com/ as user 1. 2. Create a new account at...

Law Firm to the Fortune 500 Breached with Ransomware

Campbell Conroy & O’Neil, P.C. – U.S. law firm to a dazzling array of huge companies – told its star-studded clientele that an intruder may have groped their data. It was hit with ransomware in February and is now suffering the data-breach fallout. That client list spans a slew of industries and...

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century, a virtual conference hosted by The IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology SSIT, July 23-25, 2021. I’m speaking at DEFCON 29, August 5-8, 2021. Im speaking via Internet ...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Apache Xerces-C XML parser, including XML4C affects IBM InfoSphere Optim Masking On Demand

Summary Open Source Xerces-C XML parser vulnerability affects IBM InfoSphere Optim Masking On Demand Data Privacy components. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2016-0729 DESCRIPTION: Apache Xerces-C XML Parser library is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper bounds checking during...

Security Bulletin: Multiple Vulnerabilites in IBM Java Runtime Affect IBM InfoSphere Optim Masking On Demand

Summary There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® Runtime Environment Java™ Version 6 used by Optim Masking on Demand. These issues were disclosed as part of the IBM Java SDK updates in January 2017. Vulnerability Details If you run your own Java code using the IBM Java Runtime delivered with th...

Data privacy: What's new in cross-border transfers? The Standard Contractual Clauses

The transfer of personal data between companies and countries is vital for smooth data processing operations. When transferring data out of the European Union, companies are required to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation GDPR which requires that any data that is transferred to a...

Gartner report recommends a smart approach to enterprises needing to incorporate data privacy capabilities to manage evolving regulatory guidelines

In a recent Gartner report The State of Privacy and Personal Data Protection, 2020-2022, the authors assume that “through 2022, privacy-driven spending on compliance tooling will increase to more than US$8 billion worldwide. By 2023, 65 percent of the world’s population will have its personal...

Reduce Business Risk By Fixing 3 Critical Endpoint-to-Cloud Security Requirements

Enterprise applications used to live securely in data centers and office employees connected to internal networks using company-managed laptops or desktops. And data was encircled by a walled perimeter to keep everything safe. All that changed in the last 18 months. Businesses and employees had t...

CVE-2021-32695

Affected software: Nextcloud Android app (versions before 3.16.1). Root cause: a malicious app on the same device could access the app’s shared_prefs during the user-driven sharing flow. Impact: disclosure of limited private data in shared preferences (e.g., pushToken and account name). Requires ...

Jail for consultant who scraped colossal trove of Alibaba customer data

A billion data points, including the usernames and mobile phone numbers of customers have been siphoned off Alibaba websites by a web crawler. The information has reached us about a week after a court ruling in the case. The court ruling A central Chinese court has ruled that an employee of a...

How to deactivate or delete your Facebook account

People worldwide use Facebook to connect with friends and family, and to engage in pointless debates with strangers over moderately amusing cat videos. But while some feel that the social media platform is an essential part of life, others find the data scandals and privacy issues disconcerting...