GHSA-WMX7-X4JP-9JGG OpenSearch has issue with fine-grained access control of indices backing data streams

Impact There is an issue with the implementation of fine-grained access control rules document-level security, field-level security and field masking where they are not correctly applied to the indices that back data streams potentially leading to incorrect access authorization. This issue can on...

DNA testing service to pay $400k for data breach it ignored

By Habiba Rashid DNA Diagnostics Center DDC, a US-based DNA testing service suffered a data breach in November 2021, in which… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: DNA testing service to pay $400k for data breach it ignored...

SUSE CVE-2022-24812

Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. When fine-grained access control is enabled and a client uses Grafana API Key to make requests, the permissions for that API Key are cached for 30 seconds for the given organization. Because of the way the cache ID is constructe...

WhatsApp Hit with €5.5 Million Fine for Violating Data Protection Laws

The Irish Data Protection Commission DPC on Thursday imposed fresh fines of €5.5 million against Meta's WhatsApp for violating data protection laws when processing users' personal information. At the heart of the ruling is an update to the messaging platform's Terms of Service that was imposed in...

Malicious code in best-man-fine (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware 382cd44fd0ad29485cc7b6ce261793fef72138d6695b80a6e6de9cca9d8af4e0 Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

Facebook Fined $276M under GDPR

Facebook--Meta--was just fined $276 million USD for a data leak that included full names, birth dates, phone numbers, and location. Metas total fine by the Data Protection Commission is over $700 million. Total GDPR fines are over €2 billion EUR since 2018...

French Electricity Provider Fined for Storing Users' Passwords with Weak MD5 Algorithm

The French data protection watchdog on Tuesday fined electricity provider Électricité de France EDF €600,000 for violating the European Union General Data Protection Regulation GDPR requirements. The Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés CNIL said the electric utility breached...

fine-tek.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3079776

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

Australia Passes Bill to Fine Companies up to $50 Million for Data Breaches

The Australian government has passed a bill that markedly increases the penalty for companies suffering from serious or repeated data breaches. To that end, the maximum fines have been bumped up from the current AU$2.22 million to AU$50 million, 30% of an entity's adjusted turnover in the relevan...

Authorization

OpenSearch is a community-driven, open source fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana. There is an issue with the implementation of fine-grained access control rules document-level security, field-level security and field masking where they are not correctly applied to the indices that back data streams...

Google to Pay $391 Million Privacy Fine for Secretly Tracking Users' Location

Internet giant Google has agreed to pay a record $391.5 million to settle with 40 states in the U.S. over charges the company misled users about the collection of personal location data. "Google misled its users into thinking they had turned off location tracking in their account settings, when, ...

CVE-2022-41918 Issue with fine-grained access control of indices backing data streams

OpenSearch is a community-driven, open source fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana. There is an issue with the implementation of fine-grained access control rules document-level security, field-level security and field masking where they are not correctly applied to the indices that back data streams...

AI-based Model to Predict Extreme Wildfire Danger

By Deeba Ahmed This hybrid method can provide improved predictions from one week before the fire using finer scales 4kmx4km resolution. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: AI-based Model to Predict Extreme Wildfire Danger...

Kim Kardashian gets huge fine for crypto ad

The Securities and Exchange Commission SEC announced in a recent press release that it's charging celebrity influencer Kim Kardashian for violating Section 17b of the Securities Act of 1933, or the anti-touting provision. Kardashian was paid to promote EthereumMax or EMAX, a crypto asset security...

TikTok faces $28m fine for failing to protect children's privacy

TikTok is no stranger to controversy where data usage is concerned. Back in 2021, the social media dance extravaganza platform agreed to pay $92m to settle dozens of lawsuits alleging harvesting of personal data. There has also been concern with regard to whether or not settings were enough to ke...

nicolayfineart.org Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-2947312

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

Morgan Stanley's years-long "extensive failure" to protect customer data ends in huge fine

On Tuesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission SEC charged financial company Morgan Stanley a $35M fine for "the firm's extensive failures, over five years, to protect the personal identifying information, or PII, of approximately 15 million customers. The company agreed to settle the penalty...

A week in security (September 5 – 11)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Phishers use verified status as bait for Instagram users Microsoft will disable Basic authentication for Exchange Online in less than a month Zero-day puts a dent in Chrome's mojo Update now! QNAP warns users DeadBolt is exploiting Photo Station vulnerability Don't...

Instagram receives record fine of $400M for abuse of children's data

Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner DPC, the lead regulator in Europe for Meta and other tech giants, has slapped Instagram with a fine of €405M--roughly equivalent to $402M--following an investigation on how the company handled children's data. In the investigation that started in 2020, the D...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security and bug fix update

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from...