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...

My precious: security, privacy, and smart jewelry

Emery was staring at her computer screen for almost an hour, eyes already lackluster as the full-page ad on Motiv looped once more. She was contemplating whether she'd give in and get her boyfriend Ben a new fitness tracker as a present for his upcoming marathon. The phone app he was currently...

Mail.ru: [Mail.Ru Android] Typo in permission name allows to write contacts without user knowledge

Hi, Mail.Ru app registers permission writecontacts xml but uses write xml which is unclaimed, has normal protection level by default and automatically granted to all apps. It means that any third-party apps have ability to insert any data into that database PoC xml java ContentValues contentValue...

CVE-2018-6260

Summary (CVE-2018-6260) NVIDIA’s GPU Display Driver contains a local-information-disclosure vulnerability due to a side channel exposed by GPU performance counters. A local attacker could access data processed on the GPU. The flaw affects NVIDIA Display Driver for Linux and Windows; no remote/vec...

Nextcloud: Event privacy level does not work in Thunderbird

Events in shared calendar with changed privacy level to any other than public are shown in Thunderbird as public anyway with all details How to reproduce: 1 - create an event in user A's calendar shared to user B 2 - change privacy setting of this event to any other than public 3 - open Thunderbi...

How to Safely and Securely Dispose of Your Old Gadgets

Keep your data private and the environment protected...

Flogging a dead smart horse

Connected stuff is getting everywhere, even in to managing the health of your connected horse. Yes, really. One Friday afternoon after PTP lunchtime drinks in the pub, we bought an ‘Orscana’ horse tracking device. It sat on the shelf for 13 months until after another session in the pub over lunch...

Mongo Web Admin 6.0 - Information Disclosure

Exploit Title: Mongo Web Admin 6.0 - Information Disclosure Dork: N/A Date: 2018-11-04 Exploit Author: Ihsan Sencan Vendor Homepage: http://www.mongoadmin.org/ Software Link: https://netix.dl.sourceforge.net/project/mongo-web-admin/mongoDesktopAdminSetup-beta-6.exe Version: 6.0 Category: Webapps...