Pharma Giant Pfizer Leaks Customer Prescription Info, Call Transcripts

UPDATE Pharma giant Pfizer has leaked the private medical data of prescription-drug users in the U.S. for months or even years, thanks to an unprotected Google Cloud storage bucket. The exposed data includes phone-call transcripts and personally-identifiable information PII, according to...

CVE-2020-1777

CVE-2020-1777 affects OTRS: agent names reveal in chat interfaces and ticket transcripts when masking real agent names is configured. Affected versions: OTRS 7.0.21 and earlier, 8.0.6 and earlier. CVSS metrics indicate a MEDIUM severity: CVSS v3.1 base score 5.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A...

You Are Here: Giving Your Users the Local Experience They Deserve

Locality matters for most things in life: weather, health care, shopping, product reviews, dinner reservations, social networking, data privacy, news, sports ... the list goes on and on in our ever more connected lives. From direct user interaction on your flagship website or app to IoT device da...

This Week in Security News: A Look Inside the Bulletproof Hosting Business and Amazon Prime Day Spurs Spike in Phishing, Fraud Attacks

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about how cybercriminals secure their assets and survive in the business in a new Trend Micro report. Also, read about a how...

Male Chastity Device Comes with Massive Security Flaws

Researchers at Pen Test Partners recently uncovered concerning security issues with a connected male chastity device and are calling on the entire connected sex toy industry — known as “teledildonics” — to make security a priority. The Qiui Cellmate chastity cage has a Bluetooth lock that could...

The Network Perimeter: This Time, It’s Personal

In the rear-view mirror of history, the state of cybersecurity will not take top billing away from the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the one has been significantly affected by the other, and only time will tell what the full fallout will be. The first six months of 2020 saw significant developments...

Top Security and Data Privacy Regulations for Financial Services

Regulatory compliance has become an increasingly more important part of the financial services industry in recent years. And it’s a trend that’s likely to continue due to the upsurge in cloud computing, the use of mobile applications, and a shift to IoT devices, all of which are driving exponenti...

CVE-2019-4686

CVE-2019-4686 affects IBM Security Guardium Data Encryption (GDE) 3.0.0.2. The root cause is failure to set the secure attribute on authorization tokens or session cookies, allowing an attacker to obtain cookie values by tricking a user into following an http link or via a link planted on a visit...

News Wrap: AWS Cryptojacking Worm, IBM Privacy Lawsuit and More

Threatpost editors Lindsey O’Donnell-Welch and Tara Seals discuss the top security news stories of the week ended Aug. 21, including: IBM, the owner of the Weather Channel mobile app, has reached a settlement with the Los Angeles city attorney’s office after a 2019 lawsuit alleged that the app wa...

IBM Settles Lawsuit Over Weather Channel App Data Privacy

IBM, the owner of the Weather Channel mobile app, has reached a settlement with the Los Angeles city attorney’s office after a 2019 lawsuit alleged that the app was deceiving its users in how it was using their geolocation data. The 2019 lawsuit claimed, the app’s permission prompt for users to...

Hyperledger: The “payload” Field of Transactions in a Block Reveals the Private Data to All Peers

To whom it may concern, We are a research group conducting research on Hyperledger Fabric 2.0. We find a design flaw about the “payload” field of transactions, which can reveal the Private Data to all peers in one channel. When a client invokes a function to read the private data, the is stored i...

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I'm giving a keynote address at the Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Law virtual conference on September 9, 2020. The list is maintained on this page...

TikTok Surreptitiously Collected Android User Data Using Google-Prohibited Tactic

TikTok has been collecting unique identifiers from millions of Android devices without their users’ knowledge using a tactic previously prohibited by Google because it violated people’s privacy, new research has found. Click to register! The app concealed the practice, which can track users onlin...

Data Accountability and Transparency Act of 2020 looks beyond consent

In the United States, data privacy is hard work—particularly for the American people. But one US Senator believes it shouldn’t have to be. In June, Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio released a discussion draft of a new data privacy bill to improve Americans’ data privacy rights and their...

Out of the Grace Period: Trust and Communication Rises in a Post-CCPA World

Six months ago, the California Consumer Privacy Act CCPA was put into effect, granting California residents increased rights over how their personal data is gathered and shared by the companies they interact with. Leading up to its launch, organizations expressed concern over whether they were...

CVE-2020-14695

CVE-2020-14695 affects Oracle VM VirtualBox (Core) with affected releases: 5.2.x before 5.2.44, 6.0.x before 6.0.24, and 6.1.x before 6.1.12. The issue permits a high-privilege attacker with local logon to compromise VirtualBox and potentially access confidential data. Mitigation per linked advis...

CVE-2020-14700

CVE-2020-14700 affects Oracle VM VirtualBox Core (older VirtualBox). Affected: prior to 5.2.44, prior to 6.0.24, and prior to 6.1.12. The vulnerability is difficult to exploit but allows a high-privilege attacker with logon to the infrastructure where VirtualBox runs to compromise VirtualBox, pot...

State privacy laws: 2020 highs and lows

2020 is shaping up to be another interesting year for data privacy, especially given that public health agencies, private companies, and states are now working feverishly to create contact tracing apps and programs while still preserving privacy. Being thoughtful and accountable about data privac...

Introducing Imperva Cloud Data Security

We are excited to announce that our latest data security innovation is now available worldwide! Made for the cloud, Imperva Cloud Data Security CDS builds on our industry-leading application and data security solutions, providing an industry-first, complete cloud data SaaS security solution that...

Lock and Code S1Ep10: Pulling apart the Internet of Things with JP Taggart

This week on Lock and Code, we discuss the top security headlines generated right here on Labs and around the Internet. In addition, we talk to JP Taggart, senior security researcher at Malwarebytes, about the Internet of Things. For years, Internet capabilities have crept into modern consumer...