Android 17 ends all-or-nothing access to your contacts

Some of the apps on your phone want your contacts. Most don't need them all, but have been happily slurping up the lot for years. Google has decided to do something about that with the next version of Android. Android 17 currently in preview is introducing a new Contact Picker that lets users gra...

Secure access for a connected world—meet Microsoft Entra

What could the world achieve if we had trust in every digital experience and interaction? This question has inspired us to think differently about identity and access, and today, we’re announcing our expanded vision for how we will help provide secure access for our connected world. Microsoft Ent...

Inrupt, Tim Berners-Lee's Solid, and Me

For decades, I have been talking about the importance of individual privacy. For almost as long, I have been using the metaphor of digital feudalism to describe how large companies have become central control points for our data. And for maybe half a decade, I have been talking about the...

IBM DB2 Access Control Vulnerability

IBM DB2 is a set of relational database management system from IBM in the United States. The main execution environments for this system are UNIX, Linux, IBM i, z/OS, and Windows server versions. A security vulnerability exists in all revision packages of IBM DB2 version 11.1 including DB2 Connec...

Barracuda SSL VPN 680 Cross Site Scripting

Exploit for php platform in category web applications Barracuda SSL VPN 680 - Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities Introduction: ============= The Barracuda SSL VPN is an integrated hardware and software solution enabling secure, clientless remote access to internal network resources from any Web...