How security can keep media and sources safe

The security community is continuously changing, growing, and learning from each other to better position the world against cyber threats. In the latest Voice of the Community blog series post, Microsoft Product Marketing Manager Natalia Godyla talks with Runa Sandvik, an expert on journalistic...

How security can keep media and sources safe

The security community is continuously changing, growing, and learning from each other to better position the world against cyber threats. In the latest Voice of the Community blog series post, Microsoft Product Marketing Manager Natalia Godyla talks with Runa Sandvik, an expert on journalistic...

Google Extends Support for Tracking Party Cookies Until 2023

Google's sweeping proposal to deprecate third-party cookies in Chrome browser is going back to the drawing board after the company announced plans to delay the rollout from early 2022 to late 2023, pushing back the project by nearly two years. "While there's considerable progress with this...

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: Ill be part of a European Internet Forum virtual debate on June 17, 2021. The topic is "Decrypting the encryption debate: How to ensure public safety with a privacy-preserving and secure Internet?" I’m speaking at the all-online...

Ansible -- Templating engine bug

Ansible developers report: Templating engine fix for not preserving usnafe status when trying to preserve newlines...

Google Will Use 'FLoC' for Ad Targeting Once 3rd-Party Cookies Are Dead

Signaling a major shift to its ads-driven business model, Google on Wednesday unequivocally stated it would not build alternate identifiers or tools to track users across multiple websites once it begins phasing out third-party tracking cookies from its Chrome browser by early 2022. "Instead, our...

Google Will Use 'FLoC' for Ad Targeting Once 3rd-Party Cookies Are Dead

Signaling a major shift to its ads-driven business model, Google on Wednesday unequivocally stated it would not build alternate identifiers or tools to track users across multiple websites once it begins phasing out third-party tracking cookies from its Chrome browser by early 2022. "Instead, our...

Information disclosure

The implementation of Brave Desktop's privacy-preserving analytics system P3A between 1.1 and 1.18.35 logged the timestamp of when the user last opened an incognito window, including Tor windows. The intended behavior was to log the timestamp for incognito windows excluding Tor windows. Note that...

CVE-2020-8276

Summary: CVE-2020-8276 affects Brave Desktop’s privacy-preserving analytics (P3A) from versions 1.1–1.18.35, where the implementation logged the timestamp of the last incognito window, including Tor windows, instead of excluding Tor. What is affected / root cause: The P3A component logged a times...

CVE-2020-8276

The implementation of Brave Desktop's privacy-preserving analytics system P3A between 1.1 and 1.18.35 logged the timestamp of when the user last opened an incognito window, including Tor windows. The intended behavior was to log the timestamp for incognito windows excluding Tor windows. Note that...

CVE-2020-15957

An issue was discovered in DP3T-Backend-SDK before 1.1.1 for Decentralised Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing DP3T. When it is configured to check JWT before uploading/publishing keys, it is possible to skip the signature check by providing a JWT token with alg=none...

CVE-2020-15957

An issue was discovered in DP3T-Backend-SDK before 1.1.1 for Decentralised Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing DP3T. When it is configured to check JWT before uploading/publishing keys, it is possible to skip the signature check by providing a JWT token with alg=none...

DEBIAN-CVE-2020-14019

Open-iSCSI rtslib-fb through 2.1.72 has weak permissions for /etc/target/saveconfig.json because shutil.copyfile instead of shutil.copy is used, and thus permissions are not preserved...

CVE-2020-1736

A flaw was found in Ansible Engine when a file is moved using atomicmove primitive as the file mode cannot be specified. This sets the destination files world-readable if the destination file does not exist and if the file exists, the file could be changed to have less restrictive permissions...

Google's New Tool Alerts When You Use Compromised Credentials On Any Site

With so many data breaches happening almost every week, it has become difficult for users to know if their credentials are already in possession of hackers or being circulated freely across the Internet. Thankfully, Google has a solution. Today, February 5, on Safer Internet Day, Google launches ...

Google's New Tool Alerts When You Use Compromised Credentials On Any Site

With so many data breaches happening almost every week, it has become difficult for users to know if their credentials are already in possession of hackers or being circulated freely across the Internet. Thankfully, Google has a solution. Today, February 5, on Safer Internet Day, Google launches ...

Cisco Releases Open Source FNR Cipher

Cisco has released a new open-source block cipher called FNR that is designed for encrypting small chunks of data, such as MAC addresses or IP addresses. The cipher is still in the experimental stage, but Cisco has released the source code and a demo application. The company suggests that the new...

Cisco Open Sources Experimental Small Domain Block Cipher

In cryptography, Block ciphers such as AES or DES are a symmetric key cipher operating on fixed-length groups of bits, called blocks, and typically operate on large input data blocks i.e. 64 or more than 128, 256 bits. Block cipher encrypts Plain-text to Cipher-text by applying cryptographic key...

FreeBSD Security Advisory (FreeBSD-SA-04:04.tcp.asc)

The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory FreeBSD-SA-04:04.tcp.asc SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders...

AZL-34843 CVE-2007-4998 affecting package kernel for versions less than 6.6.35.1-4

cp, when running with an option to preserve symlinks on multiple OSes, allows local, user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack using crafted directories containing multiple source files that are copied to the same destination...