IBM Settles Lawsuit Over Weather Channel App Data Privacy

IBM, the owner of the Weather Channel mobile app, has reached a settlement with the Los Angeles city attorney’s office after a 2019 lawsuit alleged that the app was deceiving its users in how it was using their geolocation data. The 2019 lawsuit claimed, the app’s permission prompt for users to...

Facebook Privacy Glitch Gave 5K Developers Access to ‘Expired’ Data

Facebook is facing yet another privacy faux pas in how its users’ data is collected and used by third-party apps. The social media giant said that it recently discovered that 5,000 developers received data from Facebook users — long after their access to that data should have expired. In 2018, on...

Facebook's FTC-Mandated Privacy Committee Now in Effect

Facebook on Thursday said it has started to report its privacy practices to a newly formed, independent Privacy Committee. The creation of the independent committee was part of the company’s settlement a year ago with the Federal Trade Commission FTC over data privacy violations, which came in...

FTC Slams Children’s App Developer for COPPA Violations

Children’s app developer HyperBeard has agreed to pay $150,000 after being accused by the Federal Trade Commission FTC of illegally collecting children’s data without parental consent. HyperBeard‘s website says it’s the largest mobile game developer and publisher in Mexico, with various games suc...

Subex ROC Partner Settlement Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) Vulnerability

Subex ROC Partner Settlement is a scalable partner management platform from Subex India. The platform supports features such as billing and revenue management. A security vulnerability exists in the Change Password feature in Subex ROC Partner Settlement version 10.5. The vulnerability can be...

CVE-2020-9384

An Insecure Direct Object Reference IDOR vulnerability in the Change Password feature of Subex ROC Partner Settlement 10.5 allows remote authenticated users to achieve account takeover via manipulation of POST parameters. NOTE: This vulnerability may only affect a testing version of the applicati...

CVE-2020-9384

An Insecure Direct Object Reference IDOR vulnerability in the Change Password feature of Subex ROC Partner Settlement 10.5 allows remote authenticated users to achieve account takeover via manipulation of POST parameters. NOTE: This vulnerability may only affect a testing version of the applicati...

Design/Logic Flaw

An Insecure Direct Object Reference IDOR vulnerability in the Change Password feature of Subex ROC Partner Settlement 10.5 allows remote authenticated users to achieve account takeover via manipulation of POST parameters. NOTE: This vulnerability may only affect a testing version of the applicati...

CVE-2020-9384

An Insecure Direct Object Reference IDOR vulnerability in the Change Password feature of Subex ROC Partner Settlement 10.5 allows remote authenticated users to achieve account takeover via manipulation of POST parameters. NOTE: This vulnerability may only affect a testing version of the applicati...

CVE-2020-9384

An Insecure Direct Object Reference IDOR vulnerability in the Change Password feature of Subex ROC Partner Settlement 10.5 allows remote authenticated users to achieve account takeover via manipulation of POST parameters. NOTE: This vulnerability may only affect a testing version of the applicati...

CVE-2020-9384

The entries describe an Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) in Subex ROC Partner Settlement 10.5 Change Password. Affected component: Change Password feature; root cause: manipulation of POST parameters enabling account takeover by remote authenticated users. Impact: account compromise report...

Subex ROC Partner Settlement 10.5 Insecure Direct Object Reference

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How to Get Your Yahoo Breach Settlement Money

If you had a Yahoo account from 2012 to 2016, you probably have $100 coming your way...

Facebook to Pay $550M to Settle Class Action Case Over Facial Recognition

Facebook has agreed to pay $550 million to Illinois users to settle a class action lawsuit filed over the use of its face-tagging technology to collect facial-recognition data on its social media platform. The company unveiled the settlement on a quarterly financial call Wednesday, in which it...

This Week in Security News: The First Patch Tuesday Update of 2020 and Pwn2Own Vancouver Announced

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about a major crypto-spoofing bug impacting Windows 10 that has been fixed as part of Microsoft’s January Patch Tuesday update. Also,...

Equifax Settles Class-Action Breach Lawsuit for $380.5M

A Georgia court granted final approval for an Equifax settlement in a class-action lawsuit, after the credit-reporting agency was hit by its massive 2017 data breach. Equifax will pay $380.5 million to settle lawsuits regarding the 2017 data breach, the Atlanta federal judge reportedly ruled this...

A week in security (September 9 – 15)

Last week on the Labs blog, we looked at free VPN offerings, how malware can hinder vital emergency services, and explored how the Heartbleed vulnerability is still causing problems. We also talked about a large FTC settlement involving Google, and how to keep an eye out for leaky AWS buckets...

YouTube ordered to cough up $170M settlement over COPPA infraction

Last week, the Federal Trade Commission FTC announced that it has required Google and YouTube to pay a settlement fee totaling $170 million after its video-sharing platform was found violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act COPPA. The complaint was filed by the FTC and the New York...

Don't Get Screwed Out of Your Equifax Settlement Money

If you signed up for $125 payout in the Equifax settlement, you just hit another hurdle. But this isn't over...

Google Fined $170 Million For Violating Kids' Privacy On YouTube

Google has finally agreed to pay $170 million fine to settle allegations by the Federal Trade Commission and the New York attorney general that its YouTube service earned millions by illegally harvesting personal information from children without their parents' consent. The settlement requires...