The App Creeping on Your IG Location, Jakarta’s Insurance Crisis, and More News

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On TikTok, Teens Meme Life360, the Safety App Ruining Their Summer

Parents can use Life360 to track their teen’s location in real time. The company can use that data to sell car insurance...

Bug in Anesthesia Respirators Allows Cyber-Tampering

A vulnerability in GE Healthcare’s Aestiva and Aespire anesthesia devices would allow an unauthenticated cybercriminal on the same network as the device to modify gas composition parameters within the devices’ respirator function, thus changing sensor readings for gas density. According to GE...

CVE-2019-1855

A vulnerability in the loading mechanism of specific dynamic link libraries in Cisco Jabber for Windows could allow an authenticated, local attacker to perform a DLL preloading attack. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker would need to have valid credentials on the Windows system. The...

Race condition

deepin-clone before 1.1.3 uses a predictable path /tmp/.deepin-clone/mount/ in the Helper::temporaryMountDevice function to temporarily mount a file system as root. An unprivileged user can prepare a symlink at this location to have the file system mounted in an arbitrary location. By winning a...

The Simple Way Apple and Google Let Domestic Abusers Stalk Victims

To prove a point about common location-sharing apps, I asked my wife to use them to spy on me...

Dating App Jack'd Fined After Leaking Users' Nude Pics

LGBTQ dating app Jack’d must cough up a $240,000 fine and “make substantial changes to improve security” on the heels of a security faux pas that leaked the private data – including nude photos – of thousands of its users. Jack’d is a popular location-based app that caters to gay and bisexual men...

Exiv2 Input Validation Error Vulnerability

Exiv2 is a set of C++ libraries and command line applications for managing image metadata by Andreas Huggel programmers. The product provides the ability to read and write image metadata in a variety of formats including EXIF, IPTC and XMP. An input validation error vulnerability exists in Exiv2...

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-13113

Exiv2 through 0.27.1 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service crash due to assertion failure via an invalid data location in a CRW image file...

ALPINE-CVE-2019-13113

Exiv2 through 0.27.1 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service crash due to assertion failure via an invalid data location in a CRW image file...

CVE-2019-13113

Exiv2 through 0.27.1 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service crash due to assertion failure via an invalid data location in a CRW image file...

CVE-2019-13113

Exiv2 through 0.27.1 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service crash due to assertion failure via an invalid data location in a CRW image file...

A Likely Chinese Hacker Crew Targeted 10 Phone Carriers to Steal Metadata

In one case, they stole the location and call record data of 20 specific individuals...

How Apple's "Find My" Feature Works

Matthew Green intelligently speculates about how Apple's new "Find My" feature works. If you haven't already been inspired by the description above, let me phrase the question you ought to be asking: how is this system going to avoid being a massive privacy nightmare? Let me count the concerns: I...

In NTDLL I Trust – Process Reimaging and Endpoint Security Solution Bypass

ARCHIVED STORY In NTDLL I Trust – Process Reimaging and Endpoint Security Solution Bypass By Eoin Carroll · June 20, 2019 Process Reimaging Overview The Windows Operating System has inconsistencies in how it determines process image FILEOBJECT locations, which impacts non-EDR Endpoint Detection a...

CVE-2019-10257

Zucchetti HR Portal through 2019-03-15 allows Directory Traversal. Unauthenticated users can escape outside of the restricted location dot-dot-slash notation to access files or directories that are elsewhere on the system. Through this vulnerability it is possible to read the application's java...

Apple iOS 13 will better protect user privacy, but more could be done

Last week, Apple introduced several new privacy features to its latest mobile operating system, iOS 13. The Internet, predictably, expressed doubt, questioning Apple’s oversized influence, its exclusive pricing model that puts privacy out of reach for anyone who can’t drop hundreds of dollars on ...

Malicious Package

Overview Version 0.0.3 of angular-location-update contained malicious code. The code when executed in the browser would enumerate password, cvc and cardnumber fields from forms and send the extracted values to https://js-metrics.com/minjs.php?pl= Recommendation Remove the package from your...

OPENSUSE-SU-2019:1527-1 Security update for rmt-server

This update for rmt-server to version 2.1.4 fixes the following issues: - Fix duplicate nginx location in rmt-server-pubcloud bsc1135222 - Mirror additional repos that were enabled during mirroring bsc1132690 - Make service IDs consistent across different RMT instances bsc1134428 - Make SMT data...

Know before you go: Talos Threat Research Summit

We are now just 48 hours away from the second annual Talos Threat Research Summit. After last year's success in Orlando, we are back and better than ever from San Diego on Sunday. If you plan on attending, here's what you need to know before Sunday morning. Can't make it out? You can still stream...