‘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: 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...

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...

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...

How to clear cookies

Until the information age, cookies were only known as a tasty but unhealthy snack that some people enjoyed, and others avoided. HTTP cookies, also known as computer, browser, or Internet cookies, are similarly divisive. Although some people like the more personalized browsing experience created b...

Lessons Learned from 100 Data Breaches: Part 1, What Specific Types of Data Get Stolen?

As part of Imperva’s Security Labs’ ongoing efforts to monitor and report on the current Application and Data Security Threat landscape, we studied and analyzed over 100 of the largest and best-known data breaches of the last decade. Download the full report, Lessons Learned From Analyzing 100 Da...

Amazon Sidewalk starts sharing your WiFi tomorrow, thanks

Amazon smart device owners only have until June 8 to opt out of a new program that will group their Echo speakers and Ring doorbells into a shared wireless network with their neighbors, a new feature that the shopping giant claims will provide better stability for smart devices during initial set...

Why adopt a data-centric solution for data privacy?

Enterprises understand the importance of having access to their consumers personal information. This data enables them to more easily build personal relationships with their audiences, using what they know about that audience to provide tailored experiences and recommendations. The internet has...

CVE-2021-33038

CVE-2021-33038 affects HyperKitty prior to 1.3.5: when importing a private mailing-list archive via management/commands/hyperkitty_import.py, archives are publicly visible during the import, potentially exposing sensitive information. Documented in multiple advisories; affected software is HyperK...

How to delete your Twitter account: the deactivation process

You may decide to delete your Twitter account, because social media isn’t for everyone. Perhaps you set up an account to see what the big deal is. Maybe you wanted to hang out with friends but you’re all moving to a new platform. It’s possible the service just isn’t very good and filled with trol...

What is Incognito mode? Our private browsing 101

Incognito mode is the name of Google Chrome’s private browsing mode, but it’s also become the catch-all term used to describe this type of web surfing, regardless of the browser being used. Some call it Private Mode, others call it Private Browsing. Apple almost certainly got there first, yet...