Flaw in LinkedIn AutoFill Plugin Lets Third-Party Sites Steal Your Data

Not just Facebook, a new vulnerability discovered in Linkedin's popular AutoFill functionality found leaking its users' sensitive information to third party websites without the user even knowing about it. LinkedIn provides an AutoFill plugin for a long time that other websites can use to let...

How Can Manufacturing Companies Improve Network Access and Security?

The manufacturing industry faces complex challenges other sectors of the economy need not worry about. Manufacturers rely heavily on everything from positive global economic trends to laws that lift certain burdens. And companies involved with manufacturing consistently focus on increased...

Podcast: How Millions of Apps Leak Private Data

SAN FRANCISCO – Threatpost’s Tom Spring talked to Roman Unuchek, senior malware analyst at Kaspersky Lab, about new research on leaky apps made public this week. Unuchek released his research at the RSA conference this week, revealing that millions of apps leak personal identifiable information –...

Millions of Apps Leak Private User Data Via Leaky Ad SDKs

SAN FRANCISCO – Millions of apps leak personal identifiable information such as name, age, income and possibly even phone numbers and email addresses. At fault are app developers who do not protect ad-targeting data transmitted to third-party advertisers. “The scale of what we first thought was...

Privilege escalation

IPVanish 3.0.11 for macOS suffers from a root privilege escalation vulnerability. The com.ipvanish.osx.vpnhelper LaunchDaemon implements an insecure XPC service that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code as the root user. IPVanish uses a third-party library for converting xpcobjectt...

CVE-2018-10192

IPVanish 3.0.11 for macOS suffers from a root privilege escalation vulnerability. The com.ipvanish.osx.vpnhelper LaunchDaemon implements an insecure XPC service that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code as the root user. IPVanish uses a third-party library for converting xpcobjectt...

Leaking ads

When we use popular apps with good ratings from official app stores we assume they are safe. This is partially true – usually these apps have been developed with security in mind and have been reviewed by the app store's security team. However, we found that because of third-party SDKs many popul...

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...

Skyworth smart TVs have smart hardware vulnerabilities

Skyworth Group Limited is a publicly listed technology company specializing in the production of consumer electronics, networking and communication products. A smart hardware vulnerability exists in Skyworth Smart TV. The vulnerability is due to Skyworth Smart TV's failure to restrict permissions...

Securing Modern Web Applications: Threats and Types of Attacks

Web Application Firewalls are the most advanced firewall capabilities available to IT teams. Deploying the appropriate WAF is important, especially these days when the security threat landscape is changing so rapidly. In a previous post, we introduced Web Application Firewalls: Securing Modern We...

COPPA Compliance

Interesting research: "'Won't Somebody Think of the Children?' Examining COPPA Compliance at Scale": Abstract: We present a scalable dynamic analysis framework that allows for the automatic evaluation of the privacy behaviors of Android apps. We use our system to analyze mobile apps' compliance...

Bitwarden: Tracking Bitwarden firefox addon users

Firefox web extension, generate a UUID for each web-extension and is specific to a user. Unlike chrome extensions. Which means whenever the user installs Bitwarden on Firefox, it generates a different extension ID for each user. You can check the extension ID by about:debugging - under extensions...

Mail.ru: 3rd party shop admin panel blind XSS

Blind XSS in third party shop's admin panel. This host and company is not operated or owned by Mail.Ru Group, but it runs an online shop and processes orders for Mail.Ru branded gift shop. It does not have any privileged/additional access to Mail.Ru network or user's data. Gift shop is not...

The Role That IT Security Teams Need to Play in Connected Hospitals

The WannaCry outbreak that reportedly raked in US$1B in damage costs also forced doctors to cancel scheduled appointments, among other things, brought on warranted concern over pervasive ransomware attacks that could stem from oft-overlooked components of healthcare networks—exposed medical cyber...

Vendor Risk Bites Sears, Delta and Best Buy, while Saks, Lord & Taylor Deal With Breach

Data breaches dominated the cyber security headlines last week, as Sears, Delta, Best Buy, Saks, and Lord & Taylor all found themselves in the news. Sears, Delta and Best Buy: Another vendor risk incident What do retail giant Sears Holdings, consumer electronics chain Best Buy and Delta Air Lines...

Impact Of Chat Service Breach Expands To Best Buy, Kmart

The number of companies coming forward as victims of a data breach – that potentially exposed hundreds of thousands of credit card payment information – has expanded to include Best Buy and Kmart. Last week, software service provider 247.ai, a company that provides online chat services for Delta,...

Node.js third-party modules: [localhost-now] bypassing url filter which leads to read content of arbitrary file

Hi guys, i can bypass url filter in localhost-now module. It allows to read content of arbitrary files on the remote server. Module module name: localhost-now version: 1.0.2 npm page: https://www.npmjs.com/package/localhost-now Module Stats 26 downloads in the last week Vulnerability Description...

[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: python3-3.6.5-1.fc28

Python is an accessible, high-level, dynamically typed, interpreted program ming language, designed with an emphasis on code readability. It includes an extensive standard library, and has a vast ecosystem of third-party libraries. The python3 package provides the "python3" executable: the...

Delta, Sears Breaches Blamed on Malware Attack Against a Third-Party Chat Service

Security researchers are pinning a recent data breach – that potentially exposed the credit card information of hundreds of thousands of Delta Air Lines and Sears Holdings customers – on weak third-party security policies. The cyberattack hit software service provider 247.ai, a company that...

Facebook Bolsters Privacy Measures With New Data Access Restrictions

Facebook on Wednesday listed a number of new data access restrictions as the social media company looks to reassure end users that their personal information will remain private. The new measures, detailed in a post by Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer, limit the personal data that apps can collect...