Will pay-for-privacy be the new normal?

Privacy is a human right, and online privacy should be no exception. Yet, as the US considers new laws to protect individuals’ online data, at least two proposals—one statewide law that can still be amended and one federal draft bill that has yet to be introduced—include an unwelcome bargain:...

Beers with Talos Ep. #47: Privacy, Underwear, and Arias

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast Ep. 47 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. Ep. 47 show notes: Recorded Feb. 15, 2019 We are joined by special guest Michelle Dennedy, a vice president and the chief privacy...

Skia - Incorrect Convexity Assumptions Leading to Buffer Overflows

I was looking into the root cause of https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=850350. In that bug, due to precision errors, Skia generated a concave RRect, but declared it convex. Later, the RRect was transformed with an affine transform and used as a clipping region for drawing...

Wide-Ranging German Doxxing Incident Hits Hundreds of Politicians

Hundreds of German politicians, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, have been doxxed in a puzzling incident, with their private information and political documents dumped online. At least one local reporter is claiming the information is explosive. According to a report from German public...

chromium-browser: Inappropriate implementation in Omnibox

Incorrect handling of bidirectional domain names with RTL characters in Omnibox in Google Chrome prior to 71.0.3578.80 allowed a remote attacker to spoof the contents of the Omnibox URL bar via a crafted domain name...

Rockwell Automation Allen-Bradley PowerMonitor 1000 Authentication Bypass

Exploit Title: Rockwell Automation Allen-Bradley PowerMonitor 1000 - Incorrect Access Control Date: 2018-11-27 Exploit Author: Luca.Chiou Vendor Homepage: https://www.rockwellautomation.com/ Version: 1408-EM3A-ENT B Tested on: It is a proprietary devices:...

CVE-2018-18445

In the Linux kernel 4.14.x, 4.15.x, 4.16.x, 4.17.x, and 4.18.x before 4.18.13, faulty computation of numeric bounds in the BPF verifier permits out-of-bounds memory accesses because adjustscalarminmaxvals in kernel/bpf/verifier.c mishandles 32-bit right shifts...

CVE-2018-18445

In the Linux kernel 4.14.x, 4.15.x, 4.16.x, 4.17.x, and 4.18.x before 4.18.13, faulty computation of numeric bounds in the BPF verifier permits out-of-bounds memory accesses because adjustscalarminmaxvals in kernel/bpf/verifier.c mishandles 32-bit right shifts...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-18445

In the Linux kernel 4.14.x, 4.15.x, 4.16.x, 4.17.x, and 4.18.x before 4.18.13, faulty computation of numeric bounds in the BPF verifier permits out-of-bounds memory accesses because adjustscalarminmaxvals in kernel/bpf/verifier.c mishandles 32-bit right shifts...

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CVE-2018-5117

If right-to-left text is used in the addressbar with left-to-right alignment, it is possible in some circumstances to scroll this text to spoof the displayed URL. This issue could result in the wrong URL being displayed as a location, which can mislead users to believe they are on a different sit...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-5117

If right-to-left text is used in the addressbar with left-to-right alignment, it is possible in some circumstances to scroll this text to spoof the displayed URL. This issue could result in the wrong URL being displayed as a location, which can mislead users to believe they are on a different sit...

CVE-2018-5117

If right-to-left text is used in the addressbar with left-to-right alignment, it is possible in some circumstances to scroll this text to spoof the displayed URL. This issue could result in the wrong URL being displayed as a location, which can mislead users to believe they are on a different sit...

Microsoft Windows 10: Shut down the system

This security setting determines if a user who is logged on locally to a device can shut down Windows. Shutting down domain controllers makes them unavailable to perform functions such as processing logon requests, processing Group Policy settings, and answering Lightweight Directory Access...

Microsoft Windows 10: Create symbolic links

This user right determines if users can create a symbolic link from the device they are logged on to. A symbolic link is a file-system object that points to another file-system object. The object that is pointed to is called the target. Symbolic links are transparent to users. The links appear as...

Microsoft Windows 10: Create permanent shared objects

This user right determines which accounts can be used by processes to create a directory object by using the object manager. Directory objects include Active Directory objects, files and folders, printers, registry keys, processes, and threads. Users who have this capability can create permanent...

London Trust Media Private Internet Access VPN Client for Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

London Trust Media Private Internet Access PIA VPN Client for Windows is a Windows-based VPN client for anonymous Internet access. A security vulnerability exists in version 77 of the London Trust Media PIA VPN Client for Windows based platforms, which stems from the program's failure to adequate...

GDPR vs Blockchain: Technology vs the Law

One of the biggest impacts that GDPR will have for consumers citizens of countries that comply with GDPR, at least is the right to be forgotten. A person can request that they be removed from a record. What if the record is part of a blockchain? This poses a challenge for blockchain...

CVE-2018-6623

An issue was discovered in Hola 1.79.859. An unprivileged user could modify or overwrite the executable with arbitrary code, which would be executed the next time the service is started. Depending on the user that the service runs as, this could result in privilege escalation. The issue exists...

CVE-2018-7213

The Password Manager Extension in Abine Blur 7.8.242 before 7.8.2428 allows attackers to bypass the Multi-Factor Authentication and macOS disk-encryption protection mechanisms, and consequently exfiltrate secured data, because the right-click context menu is not secured...