Meltdown and Spectre fallout: patching problems persist

Last week, the disclosure by multiple teams from Graz and Pennsylvania University, Rambus, Data61, Cyberus Technology, and Google Project Zero of vulnerabilities under the aliases Meltdown and Spectre rocked the security world, sending vendors scurrying to create patches, if at all possible, and...

Seagate Personal Cloud - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Seagate Personal Cloud - Multiple Vulnerabilities SSD Advisory – Seagate Personal Cloud Multiple Vulnerabilities Vulnerabilities summary The following advisory describes two 2 unauthenticated command injection vulnerabilities. Seagate Personal Cloud Home Media Storage is “the easiest way to store...

Seagate Personal Cloud - Multiple Vulnerabilities

SSD Advisory – Seagate Personal Cloud Multiple Vulnerabilities Vulnerabilities summary The following advisory describes two 2 unauthenticated command injection vulnerabilities. Seagate Personal Cloud Home Media Storage is “the easiest way to store, organize, stream and share all your music, movie...

Three Reasons Why GDPR Encourages Pseudonymization

The General Data Protection Regulation GDPR is the European Union’s new data regulation designed to provide individuals with rights and protections over their personal data that is collected or created by businesses or government entities. It unifies data protection regulation across all member...

Razer US: SQL Injection on careers.razerzone.com within the Admin interface without any access credentials

The researcher discovered a SQL Injection vulnerability on our careers.razerzone.com host, which is used to list job openings for Razer worldwide and receive application submissions from potential hires. This vulnerability could have allowed the exfiltration of admin credentials as well as person...

Nissan Finance Canada Suffers Data Breach — Notifies 1.13 Million Customers

It's the last month of this year, but possibly not the last data breach report. Nissan warns of a possible data breach of personal information on its customers who financed their vehicles through Nissan Canada Finance and INFINITI Financial Services Canada. Although the company says it does not...

The seven most colossal data breaches of 2017

By Logan Strain If it seems like the words “leak,” “compromised data,” and “breach” are constantly in the news, it’s not just you. The frequency of major data breaches is increasing. According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, the number of breaches is expected to top 1,500 in 2017. That’s a...

OV-chipkaart: Personal data of all Dutch public transport cards ("OV-Chipkaart") accessible

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Coremail's Android version suffers from an override access vulnerability.

Coremail Lobbyist Email System for Android is a mobile email app. There is an over-authorized access vulnerability in the "Personal Details" page of Coremail Lonker Mailbox System for Android. It allows attackers to utilize the vulnerability to modify the list field to query the name, cell phone...

Uber Paid 20-Year-Old Florida Hacker $100,000 to Keep Data Breach Secret

Last year, Uber received an email from an anonymous person demanding money in exchange for the stolen user database. It turns out that a 20-year-old Florida man, with the help of another, breached Uber's system last year and was paid a huge amount by the company to destroy the data and keep the...

Massive Breach Exposes Keyboard App that Collects Personal Data On Its 31 Million Users

In the digital age, one of the most popular sayings is—if you're not paying, then you're not the customer, you're the product. While downloading apps on their smartphones, most users may not realize how much data they collect on you. Believe me; it’s way more than you can imagine. Nowadays, many...

CVE-2017-10892

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Music Center for PC version 1.0.00 allows an attacker to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory...

CVE-2017-1484

IBM WebSphere Commerce Enterprise, Professional, Express, and Developer 7.0 and 8.0 could allow an authenticated attacker to obtain information such as user personal data. IBM X-Force ID: 128622...

CVE-2017-1484

IBM WebSphere Commerce Enterprise, Professional, Express, and Developer 7.0 and 8.0 could allow an authenticated attacker to obtain information such as user personal data. IBM X-Force ID: 128622...

Name+DOB+SSN=FAFSA Data Gold Mine

KrebsOnSecurity has sought to call attention to online services which expose sensitive consumer data if the user knows a handful of static details about a person that are broadly for sale in the cybercrime underground, such as name, date of birth, and Social Security Number. Perhaps the most...

IBM WebSphere Commerce Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CNVD-2017-37836)

IBM WebSphere Commerce is a suite of e-business solutions from IBM in the United States. The solution supports all sales business models, including B2C, B2B and B2B2C, on a single customer interaction platform. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in IBM WebSphere Commerce. A remote...

10 tips for safe online shopping on Cyber Monday

Shoppers familiar with the Cyber Monday circus know they’re stepping into the lion’s den. The Internet has always been a lawless place, but it becomes particularly rough during the holiday shopping season. In preparation for the frenzy, cyber villains have crafted a virtual onslaught of social...

Pursuing The Right to be Left Alone

The three pillars of privacy, defined in “The Right to Privacy” 4 Harvard L.R. 193 Dec 15, 1890, are 1 the right to know what information is gathered about you, 2 the right to know how it will be used, and 3 the right to be left alone. The European Union has incorporated these principles into the...

Zomato: User Profiles Leak PII in HTML Document for Mobile Browser User Agents

@chriszielinski found that user personal information was leaking when you make a request using mobile user agent...

IoT is Insecure, Get Over It! Say Researchers

BOSTON—Noted security experts Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek said the Internet of Things can’t be secure, but it can be tamed. Drawing from their car hacking experience, the two spent the morning contemplating the larger universe of IoT security and conceded that there will always be thousands ...