CVE-2024-53701

Multiple FCNT Android devices provide the original security features such as "privacy mode" where arbitrary applications can be set not to be displayed, etc. Under certain conditions, and when an attacker can directly operate the device which its screen is unlocked by a user, the provided securit...

JVN#43845108: Multiple FCNT Android devices vulnerable to authentication bypass

Multiple FCNT Android devices provide security features such as "privacy mode" where arbitrary applications can be set not to be displayed, etc. The devices contain an authentication bypass vulnerability CWE-306, where, under certain conditions, the setting pages may be accessed without...

CVE-2024-53701: Missing Authentication for Critical Function

Multiple FCNT Android devices provide the original security features such as "privacy mode" where arbitrary applications can be set not to be displayed, etc. Under certain conditions, and when an attacker can directly operate the device which its screen is unlocked by a user, the provided securit...

Data broker exposes 600,000 sensitive files including background checks

A researcher has discovered a data broker had stored 644,869 PDF files in a publicly accessible cloud storage container. The 713.1 GB container an Amazon S3 bucket did not have password-protection, and the data was left unencrypted, so anybody who stumbled on them could read the files. The files...

Explained: the Microsoft connected experiences controversy

Recently we've seen some heated discussion about Microsoft’s connected experiences feature. As in many discussions lately there seems to be no room for middle ground, but we're going to try and provide it anyway. First of all, it’s important to understand what the “connected experiences” are...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-11702

Copying sensitive information from Private Browsing tabs on Android, such as passwords, may have inadvertently stored data in the cloud-based clipboard history if enabled. This vulnerability affects Firefox 133 and Thunderbird 133...

Tips and Tools for Social Media Safety

Protect your social media presence with tools like privacy checkups, monitoring services, and digital footprint scanners. Stay secure by avoiding oversharing, limiting third-party app permissions, and using strong passwords...

CVE-2024-53268

Joplin is an open source, privacy-focused note taking app with sync capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS. In affected versions attackers are able to abuse the fact that openExternal is used without any filtering of URI schemes to obtain remote code execution in Windows...

Secret Service Tracking People’s Locations without Warrant

This feels important: The Secret Service has used a technology called Locate X which uses location data harvested from ordinary apps installed on phones. Because users agreed to an opaque terms of service page, the Secret Service believes it doesn't need a warrant...

macOS 14.x < 14.7.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities (121570)

The remote host is running a version of macOS / Mac OS X that is 14.x prior to 14.7.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities: - A privacy issue was addressed with improved private data redaction for log entries. This issue is fixed in macOS Ventura 13.7.1, macOS Sonoma 14.7.1. An...

macOS 13.x < 13.7.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities (121568)

The remote host is running a version of macOS / Mac OS X that is 13.x prior to 13.7.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities: - A privacy issue was addressed with improved private data redaction for log entries. This issue is fixed in macOS Ventura 13.7.1, macOS Sonoma 14.7.1. An...

AI is everywhere, and Boomers don’t trust it

Artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, and Meta AI represent a stronger threat to data privacy than the social media juggernauts that cemented themselves in the past two decades, according to new research on the sentiments of older individuals from Malwarebytes. A...

CVE-2024-10388

The WordPress GDPR plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'gdprfirstname' and 'gdprlastname' parameters in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers t...

WordPress plugin WordPress GDPR 安全漏洞

WordPress and WordPress plugin are both products of the WordPress Foundation.WordPress is a set of blogging platforms developed using the PHP language. The platform supports setting up personal blog sites on servers with PHP and MySQL.WordPress plugin is an application plugin. WordPress plugin...

WordPress plugin WordPress GDPR 跨站脚本漏洞

WordPress and WordPress plugin are both products of the WordPress Foundation.WordPress is a set of blogging platforms developed using the PHP language. The platform supports setting up personal blog sites on servers with PHP and MySQL.WordPress plugin is an application plugin. WordPress plugin...

An air fryer, a ring, and a vacuum get brought into a home. What they take out is your data (Lock and Code S05E24)

This week on the Lock and Code podcast… The month, a consumer rights group out of the UK posed a question to the public that they’d likely never considered: Were their air fryers spying on them? By analyzing the associated Android apps for three separate air fryer models from three different...

Gmail's New Shielded Email Feature Lets Users Create Aliases for Email Privacy

Google appears to be readying a new feature called Shielded Email that allows users to create email aliases when signing up for online services and better combat spam. The feature was first reported by Android Authority last week following a teardown of the latest version of Google Play Services...

OSV-2024-1310 Use-of-uninitialized-value in decompress_yuv.cc

OSS-Fuzz report: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=378750938 Crash type: Use-of-uninitialized-value Crash state: decompressyuv.cc...

122 million people&#8217;s business contact info leaked by data broker

A data broker has confirmed a business contact information database containing 132.8 million records has been leaked online. In February, 2024, a cybercriminal offered the records for sale on a data breach forum claiming the information came from pureincubation.com. Pure Incubation was founded in...

Best Practices for Cloud Compliance

Introduction In today’s data-driven landscape, businesses are embracing cloud computing technology for its efficiency and scalability. A Cloud Security Alliance CSA report revealed that 98% of organizations worldwide use cloud services. Yet, more than 1/3rd of those organizations may not be using...