Firefox Web Browser Now Blocks Third-Party Tracking Cookies By Default

As promised, Mozilla has finally enabled "Enhanced Tracking Protection" feature on its Firefox browser by default, which from now onwards would automatically block all third-party tracking cookies that allow advertisers and websites to track you across the web. Tracking cookies, also known as...

wireshark/fuzzshark_ip_proto-udp: Heap-buffer-overflow in reassemble_continuation_state

Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=5661584824729600 Project: wireshark Fuzzer: aflwiresharkfuzzsharkipproto-udp Fuzz target binary: fuzzsharkipproto-udp Job Type: aflasanwireshark Platform Id: linux Crash Type: Heap-buffer-overflow WRITE Crash Address: 0x604002190634 Crash State:...

Malicious Package

reqest is a malicious package which typosquatted a popular package with a similar name. It tracks user information such as name of the downloaded package, name of the intended package, the Node version and whether the process was running as sudo and uploaded the information to a remote server...

Malicious Package

saync is a malicious package which typosquatted a popular package with a similar name. It tracks user information such as name of the downloaded package, name of the intended package, the Node version and whether the process was running as sudo and uploaded the information to a remote server...

Malicious Package

Overview All versions of saync typosquatted a popular package of similar name and tracked users who had installed the incorrect package. The package uploaded information to a remote server including: name of the downloaded package, name of the intended package, the Node version and whether the...

Malicious Package

Overview All versions of reqest typosquatted a popular package of similar name and tracked users who had installed the incorrect package. The package uploaded information to a remote server including: name of the downloaded package, name of the intended package, the Node version and whether the...

Calibration Attack Drills Down on iPhone, Pixel Users

A proof-of-concept for a new type of privacy attack, dubbed “calibration fingerprinting,” uses data from Apple iPhone sensors to construct a globally unique fingerprint for any given mobile user. Researchers said that this provides an unusually effective means to track people as they browse acros...

Fingerprinting iPhones

This clever attack allows someone to uniquely identify a phone when you visit a website, based on data from the accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer sensors. We have developed a new type of fingerprinting attack, the calibration fingerprinting attack. Our attack uses data gathered from the...

imagemagick/encoder_ptif_fuzzer: Heap-buffer-overflow in PushShortPixel

Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=5722372625137664 Project: imagemagick Fuzzer: libFuzzerimagemagickencoderptiffuzzer Fuzz target binary: encoderptiffuzzer Job Type: libfuzzerasanimagemagick Platform Id: linux Crash Type: Heap-buffer-overflow READ 1 Crash Address: 0x61d000004e84...

Google Tracks What You Buy Online With Gmail

Adobe fixes, an executive order, and more of the week's top security news...

Malicious Module

donotinstallthis was a malicious module. A malicious script was executed as a part of installation, allowing it to hijack environment variables to track and send information on how many installations were done...

Malicious Package

Overview The package donotinstallthis contained malicious code. The package contained a script that was run as part of the install script. The script contacted a remote service tracking how many installations were done. There is no further compromise. Recommendation Remove the package from your...

A week in security (May 6 – 12)

Last week on Labs, we discussed what to do when you discover a data breach, how 5G could impact cybersecurity strategy, the top six takeaways for user privacy, vulnerabilities in financial mobile apps that put consumers and businesses at risk, and in our series about vital infrastructure, we...

EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.1.0 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-1485)

According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Crypto subsystem handled automatic loading of kernel modules. A local user could u...

Ongoing Attack Stealing Credit Cards From Over A Hundred Shopping Sites

Researchers from Chinese cybersecurity firm Qihoo 360's NetLab have revealed details of an ongoing credit card hacking campaign that is currently stealing payment card information of customers visiting more than 105 e-commerce websites. While monitoring a malicious domain,...

Google Chrome to Introduce Improved Cookie Controls Against Online Tracking

At the company's I/O 2019 developer conference, Google has announced its plan to introduce two new privacy and security-oriented features in the upcoming versions of its Chrome web browser. In an attempt to allow users to block online tracking, Google has announced two new features—Improved...

Google Chrome to Introduce Improved Cookie Controls Against Online Tracking

At the company's I/O 2019 developer conference, Google has announced its plan to introduce two new privacy and security-oriented features in the upcoming versions of its Chrome web browser. In an attempt to allow users to block online tracking, Google has announced two new features—Improved...

Fedora Update for glpi FEDORA-2019-c36819bf25

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Fedora Update for glpi FEDORA-2019-a66789a334

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Malicious Package

Overview All versions of requset typosquatted a popular package of similar name and tracked users who had installed the incorrect package. The package uploaded information to a remote server including: name of the downloaded package, name of the intended package, the Node version and whether the...