People-Search Site Removal Services Largely Ineffective

Consumer Reports has a new study of people-search site removal services, concluding that they dont really work: As a whole, people-search removal services are largely ineffective. Private information about each participant on the people-search sites decreased after using the people-search removal...

DuckDuckGo Is Taking Its Privacy Fight to Data Brokers

Privacy-focused company DuckDuckGo is launching a tool to remove data from people-search websites, a VPN, and an identity theft restoration service...

The Not-so-True People-Search Network from China

Its not unusual for the data brokers behind people-search websites to use pseudonyms in their day-to-day lives you would, too. Some of these personal data purveyors even try to reinvent their online identities in a bid to hide their conflicts of interest. But its not every day you run across a...

CEO of Data Privacy Company Onerep.com Founded Dozens of People-Search Firms

The data privacy company Onerep.com bills itself as a Virginia-based service for helping people remove their personal information from almost 200 people-search websites. However, an investigation into the history of onerep.com finds this company is operating out of Belarus and Cyprus, and that it...

New Study Warns of Security Threats Linked to Recycled Phone Numbers

A new academic study has highlighted a number of privacy and security pitfalls associated with recycling mobile phone numbers that could be abused to stage a variety of exploits, including account takeovers, conduct phishing and spam attacks, and even prevent victims from signing up for online...

geneticmatrix.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-654442 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| geneticmatrix.com Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

lindquist.com XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://www.lindquist.com/People/Search?search='"--!confirmOPENBUGBOUNTY...

Cross site request forgery (csrf)

message/externallib.php in Moodle through 2.5.9, 2.6.x before 2.6.7, 2.7.x before 2.7.4, and 2.8.x before 2.8.2 allows remote authenticated users to bypass a messaging-disabled setting via a web-services request, as demonstrated by a people-search request...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-0214

message/externallib.php in Moodle through 2.5.9, 2.6.x before 2.6.7, 2.7.x before 2.7.4, and 2.8.x before 2.8.2 allows remote authenticated users to bypass a messaging-disabled setting via a web-services request, as demonstrated by a people-search request...

Stable Channel Update for Chrome OS

Update: Samsung Chromebook has been updated to 33.0.1750.124 Platform version: 5116.88.2 The Stable channel has been updated to 33.0.1750.124 Platform version: 5116.88.0 for all Chrome OS devices except Samsung Chromebook. This build contains a number of bug fixes, security updates and feature...