Unprotected Database Exposes Personal Info of 80 Million American Households

A team of security researchers has claims to have found a publicly-accessible database that exposes information on more than 80 million U.S. households—nearly 65 percent of the total number of American households. Discovered by VPNMentor's research team lead by hacktivists Noam Rotem and Ran Loca...

Cross site scripting

Cross Site Scripting in different input fields domain field and personal settings in AudioCodes 405HD VoIP phone with firmware 2.2.12 allows an attacker local or remote to inject JavaScript into the web interface of the device by manipulating the phone book entries or manipulating the domain name...

CVE-2018-16220

CVE-2018-16220 affects AudioCodes 405HD VoIP phone with firmware 2.2.12. Affected component: the device’s web interface. Root cause: Cross Site Scripting in input fields (domain field and personal settings) that lets an attacker inject JavaScript by manipulating phone book entries or the domain n...

Oversharing and safety in the age of social media

Many years ago, I worked with healthcare organizations to install infrastructure to support the modernization of their information systems. As I traversed hospitals – both in public and private sectors – I was often struck by one particular best practice: the privacy reminders were ubiquitous. If...

Amazon Employees Given 'Broad Access' to Personal Alexa Info

Employees at Amazon can access geolocation information for Alexa users, according to reports – thus uncovering their home addresses and even satellite pictures of their houses generated from a service such as Google Earth. Alexa is the built-in voice assistant shipped with devices like Amazon Ech...

Weak Password Vulnerability in Learning to Pay App

Learn to Pay is an online payment tool that specializes in serving the training industry. Provides recharge, payment, cash withdrawal and guaranteed transaction services. A weak password vulnerability exists in the Learning to Pay APP, which can be exploited by attackers to obtain users' personal...

Facial Recognition is Here: But Are We Ready?

When MacKenzie Fegan was boarding her morning flight to Mexico City last Wednesday, she noticed something odd at her gate at the JFK International Airport. Instead of a JetBlue employee scanning her boarding pass or taking a look at her passport, she – and other passengers at the gate – was...

Bodybuilding.com suffers data breach; issues password reset for all users

By Uzair Amir Bodybuilding.com will contact all former and current users - The website has over seven million registered users. The world-renowned fitness platform Bodybuilding.com has suffered a data breach in which personal data of registered users has been accessed. The breach was identified i...

Command execution vulnerability in wps2019 personal pc client software

WPS Office official website is Kingsoft's office software learning and sharing site, is permanently free of charge to the individual domestic office software. Software PC client can allow attackers to inject executable DLL files in the client process. Execute any function...

FreeBSD : FreeBSD -- SAE side-channel attacks (7e53f9cc-656d-11e9-8e67-206a8a720317)

Side channel attacks in the SAE implementations used by both hostapd AP and wpasupplicant infrastructure BSS station/mesh station. SAE Simultaneous Authentication of Equals is also known as WPA3-Personal. The discovered side channel attacks may be able to leak information about the used password...

FreeBSD : FreeBSD -- SAE confirm missing state validation (98b71436-656d-11e9-8e67-206a8a720317)

When hostapd is used to operate an access point with SAE Simultaneous Authentication of Equals; also known as WPA3-Personal, an invalid authentication sequence could result in the hostapd process terminating due to a NULL pointer dereference when processing SAE confirm message. This was caused by...

Is Privacy Really iPhone? Researchers Weigh in on Apple's Targeted Ad Tracking

Apple has a consistent track record of implementing privacy controls, which it has been touting via a series of saturating “Privacy? That’s iPhone” television ads. Yet, though it may be deservedly capitalizing on the increasing privacy-consciousness of consumers out there and the negative headlin...

Insecure Ride App Database Leaks Data of 300K Iranian Drivers

A researcher has discovered that over a quarter-million drivers of the Iranian ride hailing app Tap30 have had their data left publicly exposed in an insecure database. Tap30 is an online taxi application, similar to Uber, that connects users to drivers through the mobile app and the corporate...

Explained: like-farming

Like-farming, aka like-harvesting, is a method used by commercial parties and scammers alike to raise the popularity of a site or domain. The ultimate dream of every like-farmer is for his post to go viral by accumulating as many likes and shares as possible from all over the world. Like-farmers...

Never Forget That You Are Being Watched

By David Balaban What data do Facebook, Google, and mobile apps collect, do mobile carriers listen to your calls? Read this post and find answers to these and other privacy questions as well as get tips on how to protect your personal data. It has become known that information about 257,000...

Over 100 Million JustDial Users' Personal Data Found Exposed On the Internet

An unprotected database belonging to JustDial , India's largest local search service, is leaking personally identifiable information of its every customer in real-time who accessed the service via its website, mobile app, or even by calling on its fancy "88888 88888" customer care number, The...

Over 100 Million JustDial Users' Personal Data Found Exposed On the Internet

An unprotected database belonging to JustDial, India's largest local search service, is leaking personally identifiable information of its every customer in real-time who accessed the service via its website, mobile app, or even by calling on its fancy "88888 88888" customer care number, The Hack...

Khan Academy: Account takeover by changing email

The endpoint /signup/email allows users to change their email before they confirm their account email. This endpoint is not protected from CSRF. Thus, any account that is not yet "confirmed" is vulnerable to account takeover using the following steps: 1. Attacker obtains new email address not...

TicTocTrack Smartwatch Flaws Can Be Abused to Track Kids

UPDATE A popular smartwatch that allows parents to track their children’s whereabouts, TicTocTrack, has been discovered to be riddled with security issues that could allow hackers to track and call children. Researchers at Pen Test Partners revealed vulnerabilities in the watch sold in Australia ...

Google Helps Police Identify Devices Close to Crime Scenes Using Location Data

It's no secret that Google tracks you everywhere, even when you keep Google's Location History feature disabled. As revealed by an Associated Press investigation in 2018, other Google apps like Maps or daily weather update service on Android allows the tech giant to continuously collect your...