Information Leakage

superagent is vulnerable to information leakage. During a redirect to different hosts, it does not delete authorization header, thereby performing unauthorised delivery of the contents of the header to third parties...

CVE-2019-9193

In PostgreSQL 9.3 through 11.2, the "COPY TO/FROM PROGRAM" function allows superusers and users in the 'pgexecuteserverprogram' group to execute arbitrary code in the context of the database's operating system user. This functionality is enabled by default and can be abused to run arbitrary...

CVE-2017-16232

LibTIFF 4.0.8 has multiple memory leak vulnerabilities, which allow attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption, as demonstrated by tifopen.c, tiflzw.c, and tifaux.c. NOTE: Third parties were unable to reproduce the issue...

What does ‘consent to tracking’ really mean?

Thanks to Jerome Boursier for contributions. Post GDPR, many social media platforms will ask end users to consent to some form of tracking as a condition of using the service. It's easy to make assumptions as to what that means, especially when the actual terms of service or data policy for the...

Information Disclosure

curl is vulnerable to Information Disclosure. The vulnerability exists due to leak authentication data to third parties which allows an attacker to impersonate the libcurl-using client's request...

CVE-2018-20534

There is an illegal address access at ext/testcase.c in libsolv.a in libsolv through 0.7.2 that will cause a denial of service. NOTE: third parties dispute this issue stating that the issue affects the test suite and not the underlying library. It cannot be exploited in any real-world application...

Apps on smartphones are selling and sharing our location data 24/7

By Waqas It's no surprise that the apps we download on our smartphones are tracking our movements and also transferring the information to third parties without our consent. Last year it was Google caught collecting location data of Android users even if their device's location service was off th...

DomainFactory Hacked—Hosting Provider Asks All Users to Change Passwords

Besides Timehop, another data breach was discovered last week that affects users of one of the largest web hosting companies in Germany, DomainFactory, owned by GoDaddy. The breach initially happened back in last January this year and just emerged last Tuesday when an unknown attacker himself...

Tesla sues ex-employee for hacking & sharing GBs of data with 3rd parties

By Carolina The electric car manufacturing giant, Tesla, has filed a lawsuit This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Tesla sues ex-employee for hacking & sharing GBs of data with 3rd parties...

Facebook Defends Against Device-Integrated APIs Policy, But Concerns Remain

Facebook is hitting back against a New York Times article alleging that it struck deals enabling phone-makers to access users’ personal information. The incident is yet another blow to the social media giant as it continues to deal with questions and outrage over its data privacy policies. The...

GDPR Is Here: Assess Risk from Vendors and from Internal Teams

Organizations must manage risk from third parties such as contractors and suppliers, and from internal staffers and teams, as part of their compliance program for the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR. The need to manage vendor risk in particular is stressed repeatedly throughout the...

Privacy Advocates Blast Facebook After Data Scraping Scandal

Privacy advocates are up in arms after CEO Mark Zuckerberg said this week a Facebook reverse search tool may have compromised the data of the social network’s two billion users. The feature in question was designed to enable users to enter a Facebook user’s phone numbers or email addresses into t...

Design/Logic Flaw

In the DataBuf class in include/exiv2/types.hpp in Exiv2 0.26, an issue exists in the constructor with an initial buffer size. A large size value may lead to a SIGABRT during an attempt at memory allocation. NOTE: some third parties have been unable to reproduce the SIGABRT when using the...

CVE-2018-9145

In the DataBuf class in include/exiv2/types.hpp in Exiv2 0.26, an issue exists in the constructor with an initial buffer size. A large size value may lead to a SIGABRT during an attempt at memory allocation. NOTE: some third parties have been unable to reproduce the SIGABRT when using the...

Feds Take On Foreign Hackers, While 880K Orbitz Customers “Likely” Affected by Data Breach

In this edition of Qualys’ infosec news digest, we look at Orbitz’s data breach, AMD’s vulnerabilities controversy, and recent actions by the U.S. government against alleged Russian and Iranian cyber spies. Orbitz was kinda, sorta, maybe hacked Orbitz disclosed last week that personal information...

GDPR: The Stakes Are High and Time Is of the Essence

With the General Data Protection Regulation GDPR going into effect in under three months, the countdown clock is fast approaching zero for organizations worldwide that handle personal data of EU residents. GDPR is a very broad and wide-ranging regulation that requires organizations to obtain a lo...

CVE-2017-9280

Some NetIQ Identity Manager Applications before Identity Manager 4.5.6.1 included the session token in GET URLs, potentially allowing exposure of user sessions to untrusted third parties via proxies, referer urls or similar...

Code injection

Some NetIQ Identity Manager Applications before Identity Manager 4.5.6.1 included the session token in GET URLs, potentially allowing exposure of user sessions to untrusted third parties via proxies, referer urls or similar...

CVE-2017-9280

Some NetIQ Identity Manager Applications before Identity Manager 4.5.6.1 included the session token in GET URLs, potentially allowing exposure of user sessions to untrusted third parties via proxies, referer urls or similar...

openSUSE Security Update : curl (openSUSE-2018-98)

This update for curl fixes one issues. This security issue was fixed : - CVE-2018-1000007: Prevent leaking authentication data to third parties when following redirects bsc1077001 This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security,...