Bucking the Norm, Mozilla to Block Tracking Cookies in Firefox

Web tracking has long been in the cross-hairs of privacy advocates, who say that marketers know entirely too much about individuals’ online activities. And to add insult to injury, the ubiquitous cookie system used to enable tracking also presents potential security threats, including cross-site...

Android OS API-Breaking Flaw Offers Useful WiFi Data to Bad Actors

An “API-breaking” vulnerability has been uncovered that potentially exposes Android device systems data to rogue apps — information that could be very useful to bad actors. Researchers from Nightwatch Cybersecurity System said that certain all-points-bulletins sent out by the Android OS expose...

On Becoming a Contributor to the HTTP Archive

The HTTP Archive is an open source project that tracks how the web is built. Twice a month it crawls 1.3 million web pages on desktop and emulated mobile devices, and collects technical information about each of the web pages. That information is then aggregated and made available in curated...

Can search extensions keep your searches private?

One of the most common things most of us do on the Internet is search, whether we are looking up the price of the latest gadget or we need to find the address of that great restaurant recommended by a friend. The dizzying number of Google search queries per second more than 40,000, on average tel...

Apple Forces Facebook VPN App Out of iOS Store for Stealing Users' Data

Facebook yesterday removed its mobile VPN app called Onavo Protect from the iOS App Store after Apple declared the app violated the iPhone maker's App Store guidelines on data collection. For those who are unaware, Onavo Protect is a Facebook-owned Virtual Private Network VPN app that was primari...

Triout Malware Carries Out Extensive, Targeted Android Surveillance

A mobile spyware for Android was disclosed today, with extensive, advanced surveillance capabilities that suggest that a sophisticated actor is pulling the strings. Using a recently discovered malware dubbed Triout, bad actors are tapping into the proliferating footprint of Android-based...

Google Faces Legal Turmoil After Location Tracking Debacle

Google is under fire from both legal teams and activists after reports emerged that the technology giant tracked customers’ movements, even when they opt out. The company has been slapped by a lawsuit, filed in the federal court last week out of California, alleging that Google is violating both...

Google Sued Over Misleading Users About Location Tracking Feature

Google was in the news last week for a misleading claim that "with Location History off, the places you go are no longer stored," which is not true. Now, the search engine giant is once again in the news after a San Diego man has filed the first lawsuit against Google over this issue. Last week,...

Google Sued Over Misleading Users About Location Tracking Feature

Google was in the news last week for a misleading claim that "with Location History off, the places you go are no longer stored," which is not true. Now, the search engine giant is once again in the news after a San Diego man has filed the first lawsuit against Google over this issue. Last week,...

CVE-2018-1000637

zutils version prior to version 1.8-pre2 contains a Buffer Overflow vulnerability in zcat that can result in Potential denial of service or arbitrary code execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via the victim openning a crafted compressed file. This vulnerability appears to have been fix...

MariaDB: SSRF on jira.mariadb.org

Vulnerabilities in our publicly available issue and bug tracking Jira instance have been reported and resolved to the best of our abilities by upgrading to the latest available Jira software from Atlassian. Yes...

Microsoft Windows: Audit PNP Activity

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winpnpactivity.nasl 11068 2018-08-21 11:51:41Z emoss $ Check value for Audit PNP Activity Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you...

Microsoft Windows: Audit Process Creation

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winprocesscreation.nasl 11068 2018-08-21 11:51:41Z emoss $ Check value for Audit Process Creation Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free...

mberussia.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-666504 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| mberussia.com Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

New Ways to Track Internet Browsing

Interesting research on web tracking: "Who Left Open the Cookie Jar? A Comprehensive Evaluation of Third-Party Cookie Policies: Abstract: Nowadays, cookies are the most prominent mechanism to identify and authenticate users on the Internet. Although protected by the Same Origin Policy, popular...

Fedora 27 : mozilla-privacy-badger (2018-d5d8819190)

Fixed security issues with HTML5 local storage tracking detection as well as SoundCloud widget replacement. Thanks again to Cure53 for discovering and reporting these vulnerabilities. - Improved Facebook link unwrapping; now enabled on the Facebook Onion domain - Improved translations Italian,...

[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: mozilla-privacy-badger-2018.8.1-1.fc28

Privacy Badger is a browser add-on that stops advertisers and other third-p arty trackers from secretly tracking where you go and what pages you look at on the web. If an advertiser seems to be tracking you across multiple websites wit hout your permission, Privacy Badger automatically blocks tha...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: mozilla-privacy-badger-2018.8.1-1.fc27

Privacy Badger is a browser add-on that stops advertisers and other third-p arty trackers from secretly tracking where you go and what pages you look at on the web. If an advertiser seems to be tracking you across multiple websites wit hout your permission, Privacy Badger automatically blocks tha...

Google Services Track User Movements In Privacy Faux Pas

Device privacy continues be a top concern this year as consumers start thinking about when, how and why their personal data is collected. Google is the latest technology giant to find itself in hot water around privacy after a new report alleged that Google services track customers’ movements –...

Google Tracks its Users Even if They Opt-Out of Tracking

Google is tracking you, even if you turn off tracking: Google says that will prevent the company from remembering where you've been. Google's support page on the subject states: "You can turn off Location History at any time. With Location History off, the places you go are no longer stored." Tha...