Yahoo Persists in Scanning Emails for In-Depth Ad-Targeting

While the rest of the U.S. tech industry is taking steps to assuage consumer concerns over privacy and data-harvesting, Yahoo is selling off the ability to scan more than 200 million Yahoo Mail inboxes for rich user data that might be used for marketing purposes. Verizon’s Oath unit, which owns...

Privacy Advocates Say Kelsey Smith Act Gives Police Too Much Power

The delicate balancing act between security and privacy is once again being tested. A bill making its way through Congress seeks to allow law enforcement to more easily uncover location data for cell phones from mobile carriers. The Kelsey Smith Act H.R. 5983 and S. 2973 would allow police and...

Free Speech Advocates Blast Amazon Over Threats Against Signal

On Tuesday, Moxie Marlinspike, founder of the secure messaging app Signal, posted a letter sent to him from Amazon threatening to suspend the company’s AWS account for using a technique called domain-fronting on its network. The technique is used to protect messages sent via the Signal’s messagin...

SQL Injection Vulnerability in Enterprise Website Building System of Zaozhuang Frontier Technology Co.

Zaozhuang Frontier Technology Co., Ltd. is engaged in software technology services. A SQL injection vulnerability exists in the enterprise website building system of Zaozhuang Frontier Technology Co. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to obtain sensitive database information...

Frontier Silicion Internet Radio Detection

This script performs HTTP based detection of a Frontier Silicion Internet Radio. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

SQL Injection Vulnerability in News.asp Page of Frontier Technology Website Building System

Zaozhuang Frontier Technology Co., Ltd. is a technology enterprise engaged in software technology services. A SQL injection vulnerability exists in the news.asp page of Frontier Technology's website construction system. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information fr...

Privacy Activists Suffer Legal Setback In National Security Letter Case

Privacy activists suffered a legal blow when a panel of California appeals court judges ruled Monday the Federal Bureau of Investigation could continue its practice of secretly issuing National Security Letter NSL requests for customer data from communications firms. The case involved a challenge...

EFF Sues DOJ Over National Security Letter Disclosure Rules

The Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the United States Department of Justice Wednesday demanding to know whether the agency is complying with rules that mandate a periodic review of National Security Letter gag orders. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of...

Generalized s2-045 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Frontier Windray Electronic Document Security Management System

Frontier Fenglei electronic document security management system is the use of encryption algorithms for important electronic documents for a variety of different levels of encryption protection, and according to the document protection policy for specific user groups to give access to a variety o...

AG Nominee Backs Law Enforcement's Ability to 'Overcome' Encryption

President Donald Trump’s attorney general pick Jeff Sessions has amplified the encryption debate with comments he made during Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings last week stating law enforcement should be able to “overcome” digital locks in criminal investigations. Sessions’ positio...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID27054: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on December 27, 2016

Medium Alert ID: 52231 First Published: 2017 January 3 14:11 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID27054 may contain the following files: Name |...

EFF: NSA's Support of Encryption 'Disingenuous'

CAMBRIDGE, Ma.—The National Security Agency came out in support of encryption again Wednesday, but privacy advocates were quick to contest the agency’s stance, criticizing it for having a different definition of the term than others. Glenn Gerstell, general counsel for the NSA, stressed that the...

Yahoo Slams Email Surveillance Story: Experts Demand Details

Bombshell revelations that Yahoo conducted mass email surveillance is raising hackles among legal, civil liberties and security experts that demand Yahoo and the U.S. government come clean. Meanwhile Yahoo challenged the accuracy of Tuesday’s report by Reuters. “The article is misleading. We...

EFF Blasts Microsoft Over Windows 10 Rollout

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is blasting Microsoft for its “malicious” and “annoying” tactics when it comes to prodding Windows users to update their operating system to Windows 10. The digital watchdog group says Microsoft’s strategy of pushing the Windows 10 upgrade application onto users...

Warrant Canary Database Shuts Down

Warrant canaries aren’t definitive markers that a company has been served with a National Security Letter or some other type of court order mandating that customer information be turned over to a government agency or law enforcement. But oftentimes, they are a strong indicator that something has...

Brave Frontier RPG - Customized SSL, Redefined SSL Common Names verifier, WebView SSL handling enabled vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Brave Frontier RPG published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Trials Frontier - Base64 encoded String, Customized SSL vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Trials Frontier published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Frontier Target Sniper - Dangerous filesystem permissions, WebView code execution vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Frontier Target Sniper published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Zombie Frontier 3 - Dangerous filesystem permissions, WebView SSL handling enabled, WebView code execution vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Zombie Frontier 3 published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Zombie Frontier - Dangerous filesystem permissions, GPL license, WebView SSL handling enabled vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Zombie Frontier published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...