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...

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...