Don’t post it! Six social media safety sins to say goodbye to

If you or anyone you know is committing the below social media sins, it’s time to change that habit of an online lifetime. Even the most innocuous of things can cause trouble down the line, because everyone’s threat model is different. Unfortunately, people tend to realise what their threat model...

Phish Leads to Breach at Calif. State Controller

A phishing attack last week gave attackers access to email and files at the California State Controllers Office SCO, an agency responsible for handling more than $100 billion in public funds each year. The phishers had access for more than 24 hours, and sources tell KrebsOnSecurity the intruders...

[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: evolution-3.39.3-1.fc34

Evolution is the GNOME mailer, calendar, contact manager and communications tool. The components which make up Evolution are tightly integrated with one another and act as a seamless personal information-management tool...

18-Year-Old Hacker Gets 3 Years in Prison for Massive Twitter 'Bitcoin Scam' Hack

A Florida teen accused of masterminding the hacks of several high-profile Twitter accounts last summer as part of a widespread cryptocurrency scam pled guilty to fraud charges in exchange for a three-year prison sentence. Graham Ivan Clark, 18, will also serve an additional three years on...

CVE-2021-20670

Improper access control vulnerability in GROWI versions v4.2.2 and earlier allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to read the user's personal information and/or server's internal information via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2021-20670

The CVE-2021-20670 entry affects WESEEK GROWI up to version 4.2.2. It is an improper access control vulnerability that allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to read a user’s personal information and/or the server’s internal information via unspecified vectors. Connected sources confirm GROWI ...

CVE-2021-20670

Improper access control vulnerability in GROWI versions v4.2.2 and earlier allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to read the user's personal information and/or server's internal information via unspecified vectors...

WESEEK GROWI Access Control Error Vulnerability

GROWI is a team collaboration software. An access control error vulnerability exists in WESEEK GROWI 4.2.2 and earlier versions, which can be exploited by a remote, unauthenticated attacker to read a user's personal information and/or internal server information...

Home-Office Photos: A Ripe Cyberattack Vector

That photo that appears when someone disables his or her Zoom video, or those photos of a remote worker’s home office shared on Instagram may seem innocuous and playful. However, they could become ammunition for threat actors to launch targeted scams and put personal and critical data at risk, a...

The Problem with Treating Data as a Commodity

Excellent Brookings paper: "Why data ownership is the wrong approach to protecting privacy." From the introduction: Treating data like it is property fails to recognize either the value that varieties of personal information serve or the abiding interest that individuals have in their personal...

CVE-2021-21435

Article Bcc fields and agent personal information are shown when customer prints the ticket PDF via external interface. This issue affects: OTRS AG OTRS 7.0.x version 7.0.23 and prior versions; 8.0.x version 8.0.10 and prior versions...

CVE-2021-21435

Article Bcc fields and agent personal information are shown when customer prints the ticket PDF via external interface. This issue affects: OTRS AG OTRS 7.0.x version 7.0.23 and prior versions; 8.0.x version 8.0.10 and prior versions...

Ransomware Attacks Hit Major Utilities

Two state-owned utility companies in Brazil suffered separate ransomware attacks in the past week, forcing them to shut down some operations and services temporarily, In one case, sensitive data was stolen and dumped online, including network access logins and engineering plans. Centrais Eletrica...

ovirt-engine: non-admin user is able to access other users public SSH key

A flaw was found in ovirt-engine 4.4.3 and earlier. This flaw allows an authenticated user to read other users' personal information, including the name, email, and public SSH key. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality...

Data Breach Exposes 1.6 Million Jobless Claims Filed in the Washington State

The Office of the Washington State Auditor SAO on Monday said it's investigating a security incident that resulted in the compromise of personal information of more than 1.6 million people who filed for unemployment claims in the state in 2020. The SAO blamed the breach on a software vulnerabilit...

Data Breach Exposes 1.6 Million Jobless Claims Filed in the Washington State

The Office of the Washington State Auditor SAO on Monday said it's investigating a security incident that resulted in the compromise of personal information of more than 1.6 million people who filed for unemployment claims in the state in 2020. The SAO blamed the breach on a software vulnerabilit...

Why Data Privacy Day matters

Our Lock and Code special episode on Data Privacy Day, featuring guests from Mozilla, DuckDuckGo, and Electronic Frontier Foundation can be listened to here. Today, January 28, is Data Privacy Day, the annual, multinational event in which governments, companies, and schools can inform the public...

23M Gamer Records Exposed in VIPGames Leak

VIPGames.com, a free platform with a total of 56 available classic board and card games like Hearts, Crazy Eights, Euchre, Dominoes, Backgammon and others, has exposed the personal data of tens of thousands of users. In all, more than 23 million records for more than 66,000 users were left expose...

Doneren met Mollie < 2.8.5 - Unauthorised CSV Export leading to Sensitive Data Disclosure

The plugin did not check for user capability in the dmmexportdonations function, allowing any authenticated user to export a CSV file containing all donors personal information. PoC GET /wp-admin/admin-post.php?action=dmmexport...

Einstein Healthcare Network Announces August Breach

Einstein Health Network, a Pennsylvania-based company operating medical rehab, outpatient and primary care centers, announced a breach of its employee email system, which exposed patient personal and medical information. The company waited more than five months to make the compromise public...