Microsoft Adds 2FA-Protected "Personal Vault" Within OneDrive Cloud Storage

Microsoft has introduced a new password-protected folder within its OneDrive online file storage service that will allow you to keep your sensitive and important files protected and secured with an extra layer of authentication. Dubbed Personal Vault, the new OneDrive folder can only be accessed...

Microsoft Adds 2FA-Protected "Personal Vault" Within OneDrive Cloud Storage

Microsoft has introduced a new password-protected folder within its OneDrive online file storage service that will allow you to keep your sensitive and important files protected and secured with an extra layer of authentication. Dubbed Personal Vault , the new OneDrive folder can only be accessed...

Facebook Faces Lawsuit Over Massive 2018 Data Breach

Facebook lost a key court ruling last week and now must face a lawsuit tied to a data breach of its platform disclosed in 2018, which impacted nearly 30 million of its users. The data breach, first disclosed by Facebook in September 2018, directly impacted the access tokens of 30 million accounts...

Match, Tinder Swipe Right For Privacy Red Flags, Say Experts

Over 70 percent of subscribers across Match.com express concern about the amount of data they share with the platform, according to a ProPrivacy.com survey. But despite those concerns, users of the service do it anyway and also remain unaware of just how much data the company collects and how the...

Not-so-dear subscribers

Many people have had a run-in with subscriptions to mobile content providers. They appear out of the blue, and get discovered only when account funds run dry. It might seem that the obvious solution is not to visit dubious sites and not to install apps from third-party sources. But, alas, these...

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-12497

An issue was discovered in Open Ticket Request System OTRS 7.0.x through 7.0.8, Community Edition 6.0.x through 6.0.19, and Community Edition 5.0.x through 5.0.36. In the customer or external frontend, personal information of agents e.g., Name and mail address can be disclosed in external notes...

CVE-2019-12497

An issue was discovered in Open Ticket Request System OTRS 7.0.x through 7.0.8, Community Edition 6.0.x through 6.0.19, and Community Edition 5.0.x through 5.0.36. In the customer or external frontend, personal information of agents e.g., Name and mail address can be disclosed in external notes...

CVE-2019-12497

An issue was discovered in Open Ticket Request System OTRS 7.0.x through 7.0.8, Community Edition 6.0.x through 6.0.19, and Community Edition 5.0.x through 5.0.36. In the customer or external frontend, personal information of agents e.g., Name and mail address can be disclosed in external notes...

Design/Logic Flaw

An issue was discovered in Open Ticket Request System OTRS 7.0.x through 7.0.8, Community Edition 6.0.x through 6.0.19, and Community Edition 5.0.x through 5.0.36. In the customer or external frontend, personal information of agents e.g., Name and mail address can be disclosed in external notes...

CVE-2019-12497

An issue was discovered in Open Ticket Request System OTRS 7.0.x through 7.0.8, Community Edition 6.0.x through 6.0.19, and Community Edition 5.0.x through 5.0.36. In the customer or external frontend, personal information of agents e.g., Name and mail address can be disclosed in external notes...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-12497

An issue was discovered in Open Ticket Request System OTRS 7.0.x through 7.0.8, Community Edition 6.0.x through 6.0.19, and Community Edition 5.0.x through 5.0.36. In the customer or external frontend, personal information of agents e.g., Name and mail address can be disclosed in external notes...

Hackers Are After Your Personal Data – Here’s How to Stop Them

Our lives are increasingly digital. We shop, socialize, communicate, watch TV and play games — all from the comfort of our desktop, laptop, or mobile device. But to access most of these services we need to hand over some of our personal data. Whether it’s just our name and email address or more...

CVE-2019-12497

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News Wrap: Amazon Privacy and Telegram DDoS Attack

Beyond Patch Tuesday, this week was crammed with privacy and security related news. In this week’s Threatpost podcast, editors Tara Seals and Lindsey O’Donnell discussed the top news from the week. That includes: A federal lawsuit alleging that Amazon is recording children who use its Alexa...

Data Breach Disclosed by Online Invitation Firm Evite

Online invitation and stationary company Evite has notified customers of a data breach that stemmed from an “inactive data storage file” associated with user accounts. The company over the weekend said that during April 2019, it became aware of a “security incident involving potential unauthorize...

[SECURITY] [DLA 1816-1] otrs2 security update

Package : otrs2 Version : 3.3.18-1+deb8u10 CVE ID : CVE-2019-12248 CVE-2019-12497 Two security vulnerabilities were discovered in the Open Ticket Request System that could lead to information disclosure or privilege escalation. New configuration options were added to resolve those problems...

AMCA Healthcare Hack Widens Again, Reaching 20.1M Victims

The hack of the American Medical Collection Agency AMCA, a third-party bill collection vendor, continues to expand, now impacting 20.1 million patients across three laboratory services providers. In the wake of revelations that the personal data of 12 million patients from Quest Diagnostics had...

Streaming Video Fans Open to TV Hijacking

A suite of critical remote code-execution vulnerabilities in a streaming TV platform could expose entire databases of subscribers’ personal info and financial details – and could open the door to attackers hijacking the service, streaming any content they wish to customer screens. According to...

Maine inches closer to shutting down ISP pay-for-privacy schemes

Maine residents are one step closer to being protected from the unapproved use, sharing, and sale of their data by Internet service providers ISPs. A new state bill, already approved by the state House of Representatives and Senate, awaits the governor’s signature. If signed, the bill would provi...

LabCorp: 7.7 Million Consumers Hit in Collections Firm Breach

Medical testing giant LabCorp. said today personal and financial data on some 7.7 million consumers were exposed by a breach at a third-party billing collections firm. That third party -- the American Medical Collection Agency AMCA -- also recently notified competing firm Quest Diagnostics that a...