Coffee app in hot water for constant tracking of user location

A mobile app violated Canadas privacy laws via some pretty significant overreach with its tracking of device owners. The violation will apparently not bring the app owners, Tim Hortons, any form of punishment. However, the fallout from this incident may hopefully serve as a warning to others with...

Your Tim Hortons Coffee App Knew Where You Were at All Times

The Canada-based company illegally collected “vast amounts of location data,” such as every time a person entered or left their home, workplace, or another coffee shop...

Internet Safety Month: Parental controls—what they can and can’t do for you

Parental controls can be useful to limit the risks your children run into online, but you should know up front that they cannot eliminate every risk out there. Parents and adults everywhere are understandably having a hard time keeping up with the favored social networks of children and...

TrustPid is another worrying, imperfect attempt to replace tracking cookies

German ISPs are considering the introduction of TrustPid, a new type of “supercookie” that comprises of a unique identifier which will be issued for each customer that will be able to track what that customer is doing online. The providers are trying to sell this idea by telling the public that t...

Spectra < 1.25.6 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

The plugin does not escape some URLs before outputting them back in attributes, leading to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting PoC When the admin notice about Usage Tracking is displayed: https://example.com/wp-admin/index?a"...

CVE-2022-26731

A logic issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in macOS Monterey 12.4, iOS 15.5 and iPadOS 15.5. A malicious website may be able to track users in Safari private browsing mode...

CVE-2022-26731

A logic issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in macOS Monterey 12.4, iOS 15.5 and iPadOS 15.5. A malicious website may be able to track users in Safari private browsing mode...

Google Urged to Stop Tracking Location Data Ahead of Roe Reversal

Lawmakers argue Android phone data could be “weaponized against women” if the US Supreme Court officially overturns abortion protections...

GHSA-PJPC-87MP-4332 Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in Mautic's tracking pixel functionality

Impact Mautic allows you to track open rates by using tracking pixels. The tracking information is stored together with extra metadata of the tracking request. The output isn't sufficiently filtered when showing the metadata of the tracking information, which may lead to a vulnerable situation...

Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in Mautic's tracking pixel functionality

Impact Mautic allows you to track open rates by using tracking pixels. The tracking information is stored together with extra metadata of the tracking request. The output isn't sufficiently filtered when showing the metadata of the tracking information, which may lead to a vulnerable situation...

DuckDuckGo Allows Microsoft Trackers Despite No Tracking Policy – Researcher

By Waqas The privacy-oriented search engine and browser provider DuckDuckGo has received flak after a researcher identified Microsoft Trackers in… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: DuckDuckGo Allows Microsoft Trackers Despite No Tracking Policy - Researcher...

Lumos System Can Find Hidden Cameras and IoT Devices in Your Airbnb or Hotel Room

A group of academics has devised a system that can be used on a phone or a laptop to identify and locate Wi-Fi-connected hidden IoT devices in unfamiliar physical spaces. With hidden cameras being increasingly used to snoop on individuals in hotel rooms and Airbnbs, the goal is to be able to...

PT-2022-17503 · Mautic · Mautic

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Mautic versions prior to 4.3.0 Description: A cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the web tracking component allows remote attackers to inject executable javascript. The issue arises because the output of tracking metadata is not...

CVE-2016-7409

creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2022-05-23 12:12:22+00:00| seen| MISP/f2a2b59b-6783-48af-a1b2-9a34c23e8867...

Zphisher-GUI-Back_office - A Zphisher GUI Back-Office Plugin

DISCLAIMER This toolkit contains materials that can be potentially damaging or dangerous for social media. Refer to the laws in your province/country before accessing, using,or in any other way utilizing this in a wrong way. This Tool is made for educational purposes only. Do not attempt to viola...

iPhone Malware that Operates Even When the Phone Is Turned Off

Researchers have demonstrated iPhone malware that works even when the phone is fully shut down. t turns out that the iPhone’s Bluetooth chip­--which is key to making features like Find My work­--has no mechanism for digitally signing or even encrypting the firmware it runs. Academics at Germany’s...

WordPress WPCargo Track

WordPress and WordPress plugin are both products of the WordPress Foundation. WordPress is a set of blogging platforms developed using the PHP language. WordPress plugin is an application plugin. WordPress WPCargo Track...

AirTag stalking: What is it, and how can I avoid it?

More voices are being raised against the use of everyday technology repurposed to attack and stalk people. Most recently, its reported that Ohio has proposed a new bill in relation to electronic tagging devices. The bill, aimed at making short work of a loophole allowing people with no stalking o...

Facebook to Terminate some Location Tracking Services and Features

By Deeba Ahmed The social network giant plans the years most extensive bulk data deletion, including wiping out users location histories.… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Facebook to Terminate some Location Tracking Services and Features...

TYPO3 Remote File Disclosure vulnerability in the jumpUrl mechanism

The jumpUrl aka access tracking implementation in tslib/class.tslibfe.php in TYPO3 4.2.x before 4.2.15, 4.3.x before 4.3.7, and 4.4.x before 4.4.4 does not properly compare certain hash values during access-control decisions, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via unspecified...