Google makes it mandatory for Chrome Apps to tell Users what Data they collect

In Brief Chrome apps and extensions make things easier, but they can also do terrible things like spy on web users and collect their personal data. But, now Google has updated its browser’s User Data Policy requiring all Chrome extension and app developers to disclose what data they collect...

Google Stresses Transparency in New Chrome Web Store Policies

Google last week put app developers on notice, urging them to comply with a new set of privacy policies that it plans on enforcing starting this summer designed to better promote transparency. The rules reflect an update to Google’s User Data Policy for the Chrome Web Store. The company has porte...

California Kills Phone Decryption Bill

Civil liberty groups and tech firms are celebrating the defeat of a controversial California bill that would have forced phone makers to decrypt their devices by court order. The proposed legislation, AB 1681, died when lawmakers refused to give the bill a vote. But opponents of the bill, who...

Canadian Police obtained Master Key to Crack BlackBerry Messenger Encryption

BlackBerry has long been known for its stance on mobile security, as it was the first mobile phone maker to provide end-to-end encryption. But a new report revealed that the company has provided a master backdoor to law enforcement in its secure devices since 2010. The Royal Canadian Mounted Poli...

samba: Samba based active directory domain controller does not enforce smb signing

It was discovered that Samba did not enforce Server Message Block SMB signing for clients using the SMB1 protocol. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to modify traffic between a client and a server...

'Hacking Team' Loses License to Sell Surveillance Malware Outside Europe

Hacking Team – the infamous Italy-based spyware company that had more than 400 GB of its confidential data stolen last year – is facing another trouble. This time not from other hackers, but from its own government. Hacking Team is infamous for selling surveillance spyware to governments and...

Apple, Google Faced All Writs Act Orders

The American Civil Liberties Union has dug up more proof that from the get-go the FBI’s attempt to crack open an iPhone used by the San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook was not just about the one phone. The ACLU found court documents and on Wednesday published an interactive map visualizing...

An iOS 0-day will lead to iCloud photos and videos in crack-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

There is a bad news, the Johns Hopkins University's Matthew Green, a Professor in the iOS encryption system found a 0-day vulnerability, which could allow a skilled attacker to intercept and decipher iMessages on. However, the good news is that this vulnerability is hard to exploit. Green explain...

Requests for Yahoo User Data Spiked After Paris Terror Attacks

Yahoo’s latest transparency report, published today, reflects a spike in government and law enforcement requests for user data following the Paris terrorist attacks of Nov. 13. The attacks resulted in the deaths of 130 people and injuries to more than 350 others; the situation remains fluid with...

FBI Files Motion to Vacate Case Against Apple

Update The FBI has dropped its case filed a motion to vacate today’s scheduled court hearing and showdown over its demands that Apple help unlock a terrorist’s iPhone. The government late Monday afternoon filed a motion to vacate its case, likely putting a halt to a saga that began in mid-Februar...

Anonymous claims they Hacked Donald Trump ...Really?

The 'Hacktivist' collective group Anonymous claimed to have leaked personal details of the controversial US presidential candidate Donald Trump, including his Mobile Phone Number and Social Security Number SSN. Donald Trump SSN: 086-38-5955 DOB: 06/14/1946 Phone Number: 212-832-2000 Cell/Mobile...

Gratipay: Cookie Does Not Contain The "secure" Attribute

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Crypto Panel Experts Clash on FBI-Apple Debate

SAN FRANCISCO—One would think that six of the smartest security people on the planet could come to some sort of collective conclusion on the FBI-Apple debate. But that wasn’t the case today during the annual Cryptographers’ Panel at RSA Conference. The debate over whether Apple should assist the...

Facebook's Vice President Arrested in Brazil for Refusing to Share WhatsApp Data

Apple is not the only technology giant battling against authorities over a court order; Facebook is also facing the same. Brazil’s federal police arrested Facebook Latin America Vice President for failing to comply with court orders to help investigators in a drug trafficking case that involves...

Apple vs. FBI — Google Joins Tim Cook in Encryption Backdoor Battle

In the escalating battle between the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI and Apple over iPhone encryption, former National Security Agency NSA contractor Edward Snowden and Google chief executive Sundar Pichai just sided with Apple's refusal to unlock iPhone. Yesterday, Apple CEO Tim Cook refused...

Mozilla Firefox Man-in-the-Middle Attack Vulnerability (CNVD-2016-00851)

Mozilla Firefox on Android is an open source web browser for the Android platform. Mozilla Firefox on Android fails to ensure that lightweight themes are installed using HTTPS, allowing remote attackers to perform man-in-the-middle attacks by modifying client-server data streams, changing theme...

KLA10748 Multiple vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox and Firefox ESR

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in Mozilla Firefox. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to cause denial of service, bypass security restrictions, spoof user interface and execute arbitrary code. Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities 1. Multiple memory safety...

RHEL 7 : java-1.6.0-sun (RHSA-2016:0057)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2016:0057 advisory. - libpng: Buffer overflow vulnerabilities in pnggetPLTE/pngsetPLTE functions CVE-2015-8126, CVE-2015-8472 - OpenJDK: URL deserialization...

KLA10732 Security bypass vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox and Firefox ESR

Lack of security enforcement was found in Mozilla Firefox. By exploiting this vulnerability malicious users can conduct man-in-the-middle attack. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely via a collision-based attacks. Technical details This vulnerability caused by not rejecting MD5 signatures...

CVE-2015-8338

Xen 4.6.x and earlier does not properly enforce limits on page order inputs for the 1 XENMEMincreasereservation, 2 XENMEMpopulatephysmap, 3 XENMEMexchange, and possibly other HYPERVISORmemoryop suboperations, which allows ARM guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service CPU consumption,...