What If Your VPN Keeps Logs and Why You Should Care

By David Balaban Have you ever asked yourself the question: “So what if my VPN keeps logs?" Don't worry. It's a good question to ask. It means you're actually curious about the nuances of data collection, management and how they affect you. In order to answer this question, we first have to delve...

This Week in Security News: Ransomware and Cyber Threats

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 new routines for encryption of JobCrypter ransomware. Also, understand how Emotet has managed to evolve into one of the most...

Google Fined $57M in Largest GDPR Slap Yet

France’s National Data Protection Commission CNIL has fined Google $57 million €50 million for violations of the General Data Protection Regulation GDPR – the largest fine yet issued under the EU’s new data privacy law. In investigating group complaints from privacy advocacy groups None Of Your...

Data Privacy Day

January 28 is Data Privacy Day DPD, an annual effort to promote data privacy awareness and education. This year’s DPD events, sponsored by the National Cyber Security Alliance NCSA, focus around the theme, A New Era in Privacy. The NCSA Stay Safe Online website will feature a live stream of the...

Twitter Android Glitch Exposed Private Tweets for Years

Twitter disclosed a security issue on Thursday that had exposed protected tweets on Android devices – for more than four years. According to the social media giant, if Twitter users on the Android operating system made specific changes to their account settings – like changing the email address...

Millions of Oklahoma Gov Files Exposed by Wide-Open Server

Millions of sensitive files on a storage server belonging to the Oklahoma Department of Securities were left exposed for a week – including credentials, internal docs and personal data stretching back decades. Researchers at UpGuard who discovered the data leak said that the publicly accessible...

CVE-2019-2426

Vulnerability in the Java SE component of Oracle Java SE subcomponent: Networking. Supported versions that are affected are Java SE: 7u201, 8u192 and 11.0.1; Java SE Embedded: 8u191. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to...

CVE-2018-14986

The CVE-2018-14986 entry describes a vulnerability on the Leagoo Z5C: a pre-installed app com.android.messaging exposes an exported content provider (MessagingContentProvider) that allows any co-located, zero-permission app to read the most recent text messages from every conversation, including ...

Facebook Admits Giving Partners Access to Messages

UPDATE Facebook has admitted that it dealt several messaging partnerships with tech giants, giving them read, write and delete access for Facebook messages. The confirmation comes on the heels of a bombshell New York Times article, Tuesday, which leveraged internal documents to show that Facebook...

Twitter Draws Data Privacy Concerns with Two New Bugs

Two recently-patched flaws in Twitter’s platform have reignited concerns about user data-privacy issues. On Monday, the social-media giant revealed a hole that accidentally enabled bad actors to pull the country codes of accounts’ phone numbers – and revealed that several IP addresses located in...

Medtronic 9790, 2090 CareLink, and 29901 Encore Programmers

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 4.6 ATTENTION: Low skill level to exploit Vendor: Medtronic Equipment: 9790 CareLink Programmer, 2090 CareLink Programmer, 29901 Encore Programmer Vulnerability: Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data 2. RISK EVALUATION As part of the intended functionality of this...

Data Privacy Issues Trigger Soul Searching in Tech Industry

NEW YORK – For the tech industry, Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal has led to a wave of self-examination when it comes to the culture around data collection and utilization – and what the price is for bad data privacy policies. While regulatory efforts, fines and consumer public sentiment...

Australia Passes Anti-Encryption Bill—Here's Everything You Need To Know

Australia's House of Representatives has finally passed the "Telecommunications Assistance and Access Bill 2018," also known as the Anti-Encryption Bill, on Thursday that would now allow law enforcement to force Google, Facebook, WhatsApp, Signal, and other tech giants to help them access encrypt...

Facebook Defends Data Policies On Heels of Incriminating Internal Docs

Facebook has found itself embroiled in yet another data privacy scandal. New internal documents released this week showed the social media giant promoting – and trying to keep secret – the collection of call logs and texts for Android app users. A slew of internal documents were dumped this week ...

CVE-2018-11908

Technical details (affected products, components, root cause, exploits, or fixes) are not publicly provided in the connected documents; monitor for updates.

User Confidence in Smartphone Security Abysmal

Smartphone owners are growing worried about data privacy, and will delete apps they don’t trust. And only a quarter feel they are in control of their personal data. Research carried out by the Mobile Ecosystem Forum MEF, a trade body, found that Europeans are among the most wary cellphone users,...

CVE-2018-1843

IBM Cloud Private 3.1.0 IAM services expose internal traffic over non-secure channels, allowing packet sniffing and data exposure. Affected product: IBM Cloud Private 3.1.0. Root cause: lack of secure channel (SSL) for in-cluster communications. Impact: potential confidentiality breach with local...

Safeguard Your Data And Privacy Online With This Award-Winning VPN

It seems as though not a day goes by without a new story breaking about a high-level cyber attack on a major corporation or national government. Hackers are becoming increasingly adept at breaking through a variety of super-secure firewalls, and they're not just after the riches of Fortune 500...

Instagram Accidentally Exposed Some Users' Passwords In Plaintext

Instagram has recently patched a security issue in its website that might have accidentally exposed some of its users' passwords in plain text. The company recently started notifying affected users of a security bug that resides in a newly offered feature called "Download Your Data" that allows...

Why you need to know about Penetration Testing and Compliance Audits?

We live in an age where data flows like water, becoming the new life source of our everyday ventures. As such, you can just imagine what all of that entails and the weight that data receive, especially when it comes to a decision making on how to handle this fairly new and arguably invaluable...