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...

How Political Campaigns Use Personal Data

Really interesting report from Tactical Tech. Data-driven technologies are an inevitable feature of modern political campaigning. Some argue that they are a welcome addition to politics as normal and a necessary and modern approach to democratic processes; others say that they are corrosive and...

Exrex - Irregular Methods On Regular Expressions

Exrex is a command line tool and python module that generates all - or random - matching strings to a given regular expression and more. It's pure python, without external dependencies. There are regular expressions with infinite matching strings eg.: a-z+, in these cases exrex limits the maximum...

Lawsuits Aim Billions in Fines at Equifax and Ad-Targeting Companies

Equifax, Experian and Oracle are among a slate of companies whose business is consumer information, that could soon face billions of dollars in fines for improper data handling. Privacy International has filed complaints against seven corporations, consisting of data brokers Acxiom and Oracle,...

Chrome Bug Allowed Hackers to Find Out Everything Facebook Knows About You

With the release of Chrome 68, Google prominently marks all non-HTTPS websites as 'Not Secure' on its browser to make the web a more secure place for Internet users. If you haven't yet, there is another significant reason to immediately switch to the latest version of the Chrome web browser. Ron...

Memoro - A Detailed Heap Profiler

Memoro is a highly detailed heap profiler. Memoro not only shows you where and when your program makes heap allocations, but will show you how your program actually used that memory. Memoro collects detailed information on accesses to the heap, including reads and writes to memory and when they...

Trojan watch

We continue to research how proliferation of IoT devices affects the daily lives of users and their information security. In our previous study, we touched upon ways of intercepting authentication data using single-board microcomputers. This time, we turned out attention to wearable devices:...

CVE-2018-10189

An issue was discovered in Mautic 1.x and 2.x before 2.13.0. It is possible to systematically emulate tracking cookies per contact due to tracking the contact by their auto-incremented ID. Thus, a third party can manipulate the cookie value with +1 to systematically assume being tracked as each...

Design/Logic Flaw

An issue was discovered in Mautic 1.x and 2.x before 2.13.0. It is possible to systematically emulate tracking cookies per contact due to tracking the contact by their auto-incremented ID. Thus, a third party can manipulate the cookie value with +1 to systematically assume being tracked as each...

CVE-2018-10189

An issue was discovered in Mautic 1.x and 2.x before 2.13.0. It is possible to systematically emulate tracking cookies per contact due to tracking the contact by their auto-incremented ID. Thus, a third party can manipulate the cookie value with +1 to systematically assume being tracked as each...

CVE-2018-10189

An issue was discovered in Mautic 1.x and 2.x before 2.13.0. It is possible to systematically emulate tracking cookies per contact due to tracking the contact by their auto-incremented ID. Thus, a third party can manipulate the cookie value with +1 to systematically assume being tracked as each...

CVE-2018-10189

In Mautic 1.x and 2.x before 2.13.0, an attacker can systematically emulate tracking cookies per contact by manipulating the cookie value with +1, effectively allowing a third party to assume the tracked identity of other contacts and access information via forms using progressive profiling. This...

ODIN - Tool For Automating Penetration Testing Tasks

ODIN is made possible through the help, input, and work provided by others. Therefore, this project is entirely open source and available to all to use/modify. All this developer did was assemble the tools, convert some of them to Python 3, and stitch them together into an all-in-one toolkit. Wha...

Six Ways to Secure APIs

API usage in application development has become the trend of the year. Adoption of micro-services and server-less architectures have only accelerated this trend. Based on conversations with analysts and customers, we expect APIs to become the majority of web application front ends in next couple ...

BACKSWING - Pulling a BADRABBIT Out of a Hat

Executive Summary On Oct. 24, 2017, coordinated strategic web compromises started to distribute BADRABBIT ransomware to unwitting users. FireEye appliances detected the download attempts and blocked our user base from infection. During our investigation into the activity, FireEye identified a...

Tor: Simple CSS line-height identifies platform

There are lots of ways to identify the Tor Browser. User-Agent string, limited time resolution, no media, etc. Assume you know it is the Tor Browser. Can you tell what platform? NOTE: This assumption is well within the scope of the Tor Browser. The Tor Browser does not hide the fact that it is th...

The vulnerability of the ring_buffer_resize function in the Linux kernel’s profiling subsystem allows a hacker to increase their privileges.

The vulnerability of the ringbufferresize function in the Linux kernel’s profiling subsystem arises due to integer overflow or cyclic shift attacks. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker, operating locally, to increase their privileges by writing to the file in the...

Dynamic Application Profiling: What It Is and Why You Want Your WAF to Have It

Because web applications are unique, they have distinct structures and dynamics, and – unfortunately – different vulnerabilities. A web application security device, therefore, must understand the structure and usage of the protected applications. Depending on the complexity of the protected...

BGP Hijack Detection: TaBi

BGP Hijack Detection Developed since 2011 for the needs of the French Internet Resilience Observatory , TaBi is a framework that ease the detection of BGP IP prefixes conflicts, and their classification into BGP hijacking events. The term prefix hijacking refers to an event when an AS, called an...

Linux kernel local integer overflow vulnerability (CNVD-2017-00226)

The Linux kernel is the kernel used by the operating system Linux, released by the Linux Foundation in the United States. The 'ringbufferresize' function in the kernel/trace/ringbuffer.c file of the profiling subsystem in versions of the Linux kernel prior to 4.6.1 has a security vulnerability du...