Ring Adds End-to-End Encryption to Quell Security Uproar

Smart doorbell maker Ring is giving cybersecurity critics less to gripe about with the introduction of end-to-end encryption to many of its models. Ring products, which have been a juggernaut success with consumers, have faced a litany of harsh criticism from cybersecurity experts for what they s...

CISOs Prep For COVID-19 Exposure Notification in the Workplace

With the potential of employees going back into the workplace on the horizon, chief information security officers CISOs are mulling applications that utilize exposure notifications in order to track COVID-19’s spread in the office. Steve Moore, chief security strategist with Exabeam, said he is...

Extracting Personal Information from Large Language Models Like GPT-2

Researchers have been able to find all sorts of personal information within GPT-2. This information was part of the training data, and can be extracted with the right sorts of queries. Paper: "Extracting Training Data from Large Language Models." Abstract: It has become common to publish large...

Mantis Bug Tracker 2.24.3 - 'access' SQL Injection

Exploit Title: Mantis Bug Tracker 2.24.3 - 'access' SQL Injection Date: 30/12/2020 Exploit Author: EthicalHCOP Vendor Homepage: https://www.mantisbt.org/ Version: 2.24.3 CVE: CVE-2020-28413 import requests, sys, time from lxml import etree proxies = "http": "http://127.0.0.1:8080", "https":...

Data Privacy – Now’s the Time for the US to Catch Up

The recent Netflix documentary, The Social Dilemma, may have highlighted to many Americans just what happens to the wealth of personal information they regularly - and willingly - share online. It may be especially concerning, then, to know that companies in the United States aren’t required by...

python-django-horizon: dashboard allows open redirect

A flaw was found in python-django-horizon. The "next" parameter is not correctly validated allowing a remote attacker to supply a malicious URL in the dashboard that could cause an automatic redirect to the provided malicious site. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data...

45 Million Medical Images Left Exposed Online

More than 45 million medical images—and the personally identifiable information PII and personal healthcare information PHI associated with them–have been left exposed online due to unsecured technology that’s typically used to store, send and receive medical data, new research has found. A team...

CVE-2020-29480

Xen CVE-2020-29480 affects Xen up to 4.14.x. Xenstore watches lack permission checks, enabling a guest administrator to observe root xenstore notifications for all created, modified, and deleted keys and domain lifecycle events. The watch data may reveal counts/identities of other VMs, domains, d...

Ditch Your Data-Hungry Apps for These Privacy-Focused Swaps

From messaging to maps, many popular apps slurp up your data to sell you ads. There’s a better way...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: PII Information Leak at https://████████.mil/

Summary: While making use of some recon techniques I came across this file which is leaking PII information publically on the Internet. In the description section, I explain the contents of the file and why it shouldn't be public like this. Description: The file in the POC section contains more...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Eat Spray Love mobile app for both iOS and Android contains a backdoor account that, when modified, allowed privileged access to restricted functionality and to other users' data...

Federated Learning: A Therapeutic for what Ails Digital Health

For researchers and physicians the mountains of data hospitals and healthcare systems hold could be a goldmine for artificial intelligence and machine learning, but data privacy concerns and regulations have kept scientists from being able to harness that information to improve outcomes. Now...

Baidu Mobile Apps in Google Play Leak Sensitive Data

Multiple Android mobile apps found in Google Play, including Baidu Search Box and Baidu Maps, were found by researchers to be leaking data that could be used to track users – even if they switch devices. The apps have each been downloaded millions of times, according to Palo Alto Unit 42...

CVE-2020-25703

The CVE-2020-25703 issue affects Moodle: the participants table download erroneously included user emails even when emails were hidden. Affected Moodle branches: 3.9 up to 3.9.2, 3.8 up to 3.8.5, and 3.7 up to 3.7.8. Root cause: exposure of email data via export functionality (participants table ...

The US Military Buys Commercial Location Data

Vice has a long article about how the US military buys commercial location data worldwide. The U.S. military is buying the granular movement data of people around the world, harvested from innocuous-seeming apps, Motherboard has learned. The most popular app among a group Motherboard analyzed...

Online Shoppers Undeterred by COVID as Holiday Shopping Season Shifts Earlier

Akamai-Commissioned Survey Hints at Significant Business Consequences If Online Retail Experiences Do Not Meet Consumer Expectations Holiday shoppers are overcoming worries and restrictions and easily adapting to new shopping norms as the COVID-19 pandemic has invaded our lives and made us...

Inrupt’s Solid Announcement

Earlier this year, I announced that I had joined Inrupt, the company commercializing Tim Berners-Lees Solid specification: The idea behind Solid is both simple and extraordinarily powerful. Your data lives in a pod that is controlled by you. Data generated by your things -- your computer, your...

Prop 24 passes in California, will change data privacy law

First-day returns in California showed voters firmly approving to change their state’s current data privacy law—which already guarantees certain privacy protections that many states do not—through the passage of Prop 24. As of the morning of November 4, according to The Sacramento Bee, 56.1 perce...

California’s Prop 24 splits data privacy supporters

California’s data privacy house is divided. On the Golden State’s November ballot this year is the question as to whether to amend California’s barely-two-year-old data privacy law, the California Consumer Privacy Act. Far from the first attempt to change the fledgling law, Proposition 24 sets...

CVE-2020-14783

Vulnerability in the Oracle Hospitality RES 3700 product of Oracle Food and Beverage Applications component: CAL. The supported version that is affected is 5.7. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via TCP to compromise Oracle Hospitality RES 3700...