GDPR: A Compliance Quagmire, for Now

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR has gone into effect – but questions as to what compliance actually means are far from settled. While the GDPR is a European regulation, it affects any organization that handles data on E.U. citizens, whether they be customers or...

Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning Access Control Deficiency in Batch Function Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the batch provisioning feature of Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to escalate privileges to the Administrator level. The vulnerability is due to insufficient authorization enforcement on batch processing. An attacker could...

Regulating Bitcoin

Ross Anderson has a new paper on cryptocurrency exchanges. From his blog: Bitcoin Redux explains what's going wrong in the world of cryptocurrencies. The bitcoin exchanges are developing into a shadow banking system, which do not give their customers actual bitcoin but rather display a "balance"...

CVE-2016-10555

Since "algorithm" isn't enforced in jwt.decodein jwt-simple 0.3.0 and earlier, a malicious user could choose what algorithm is sent sent to the server. If the server is expecting RSA but is sent HMAC-SHA with RSA's public key, the server will think the public key is actually an HMAC private key...

CVE-2016-10555

Since "algorithm" isn't enforced in jwt.decodein jwt-simple 0.3.0 and earlier, a malicious user could choose what algorithm is sent sent to the server. If the server is expecting RSA but is sent HMAC-SHA with RSA's public key, the server will think the public key is actually an HMAC private key...

CVE-2018-6138

Insufficient policy enforcement in Extensions API in Google Chrome prior to 67.0.3396.62 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to bypass navigation restrictions via a crafted Chrome Extension...

Low: gnupg2

Issue Overview: Unenforced configuration allows for apparently valid certifications actually signed by signing subkeys: GnuPG 2.2.4 and 2.2.5 does not enforce a configuration in which key certification requires an offline master Certify key, which results in apparently valid certifications that...

Amazon Comes Under Fire for Facial Recognition Platform

Facial-recognition technology has long been touted as a useful tool for law enforcement, but the ability of systems like Amazon’s Rekognition platform to identify large numbers of people at once in a single video or still frame has raised the hackles of privacy advocates. The American Civil...

CVE-2018-7295

The CVE affects ffxivlauncher.exe in Square Enix Final Fantasy XIV for Windows (versions 4.21 and 4.25). Root cause: Improper enforcement of message integrity during transmission in a communication channel, where a session retrieves global.js via http before proceeding to use https. This enables ...

A Five-Year Journey: How Trend Micro Helped Bring Down Scan4You

Trend Micro has always had a close relationship with law enforcement around the globe, because we believe that only together can we make the world a safer place in which to exchange digital information. As the business of cybercrime continues to grow and evolve, so must our response. That’s why w...

Accessing Cell Phone Location Information

The New York Times is reporting about a company called Securus Technologies that gives police the ability to track cell phone locations without a warrant: The service can find the whereabouts of almost any cellphone in the country within seconds. It does this by going through a system typically...

Securus lets cops perform real-time cellphone tracking of US Mobile Users

By Waqas We all are well-aware of the pervasive ways governments employ This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Securus lets cops perform real-time cellphone tracking of US Mobile Users...

PoS Malware ‘TreasureHunter’ Source Code Leaked

Source code for the point-of-sale malware called TreasureHunter has been leaked, according to researchers who said the release offers them unique insights into the malware, but also gives them pause as they brace for expected variants. Not just was TreasureHunter’s source code leaked, but so was...

Configuring Imperva SecureSphere for GDPR Compliance: Part One

Time is running out. 23 days until GDPR enforcement The GDPR effective date is less than a month away and, given the significant risk and potential costs associated with a failure to comply, organizational readiness efforts continue to mount. GDPR non-compliance penalties can be severe up to 79...

ThaiCERT Seizes Hidden Cobra Server Linked to GhostSecret, Sony Attacks

Thailand’s Computer Emergency Response Team ThaiCERT has seized a server operated by the North Korea-linked Hidden Cobra APT, which is used to control the global GhostSecret espionage campaign. The campaign is still ongoing. ThaiCERT said in an alert on Wednesday that it is working with McAfee an...

chromium-browser: CSP bypass

Incorrect enforcement of CSP for tags in Blink in Google Chrome prior to 66.0.3359.117 allowed a remote attacker to bypass content security policy via a crafted HTML page...

F5 BIG-IP PEM Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2018-07870)

F5 BIG-IP is an all-in-one network appliance that integrates network traffic management, application security management, load balancing, etc. PEM is one of the policy enforcement managers. A security vulnerability exists in the F5 BIG-IP PEM. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause...

Impact Of Chat Service Breach Expands To Best Buy, Kmart

The number of companies coming forward as victims of a data breach – that potentially exposed hundreds of thousands of credit card payment information – has expanded to include Best Buy and Kmart. Last week, software service provider 247.ai, a company that provides online chat services for Delta,...

CVE-2018-9234

GnuPG 2.2.4 and 2.2.5 does not enforce a configuration in which key certification requires an offline master Certify key, which results in apparently valid certifications that occurred only with access to a signing subkey...

Take these steps to stay safe from counterfeit software and fraudulent subscriptions

This post is authored by Matt Lundy, Assistant General Counsel, Microsoft. Software piracy and fraudulent subscriptions are serious, industry-wide problems affecting consumers and organizations around the world. In 2016, 39 percent of all software installed on computers was not properly licensed,...