Open Positioner: my new project for tracking IT and security jobs

The idea of my new project is to retrieve the data from job-searching websites and provide better filtering, searching and visualization. I think for the most people who read this, searching for a job in Internet is a pretty common activity. Even if you are not going to change job right now, it...

Security Flaws in Children's Smart Watches

A year ago, the Norwegian Consumer Council published an excellent security analysis of children's GPS-connected smart watches. The security was terrible. Not only could parents track the children, anyone else could also track the children. A recent analysis checked if anything had improved after...

Apple Blasts Facebook Over Data-Sucking 'Research' App

Apple has revoked Facebook’s enterprise iOS developer certificate on the heels of a “Facebook Research” VPN app that was being distributed to consumers; the app paid teens and Millennial users in exchange for being able to track their phone and web activity, and has been available since 2016. App...

Mozilla Firefox 65 Ups the Ante on Privacy with Anti-Tracking Efforts

Mozilla has unveiled new anti-tracking policies and redesigned privacy controls in tandem with the release of Firefox 65 on Tuesday. The company announced a new set of redesigned controls for the Content Blocking section, where users can choose their desired level of privacy protection. These are...

GPS watch issues… AGAIN

Over the last year of looking at kids GPS tracking watches we have found some staggering issues. With these devices it almost seems that having multiple security issues is the new normal. While parents and guardians may get a feeling of security from using these devices, our testing and research...

Detecting bots using Content Security Policy (CSP) headers

Bots are noisy, like really. And dangerous as well, especially if they can do crawling and increase usage by legitimate operations like items catalog retrieve in the case of e-commerce. I mean, we have a lot of reasons to do not like bots and count this problem as a cybersecurity threat, which...

Active Scans Target Vulnerable Cisco Routers for Remote Code-Execution

UPDATE Malicious scanning activity targeting Cisco Small Business RV320 and RV325 Dual Gigabit WAN VPN routers is underway, with a swell of opportunistic probes looking for vulnerable devices ramping up since Friday. According to Bad Packets Report’s honeypot data, cyberattackers are targeting a...

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...

CVE-2019-6225

creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2019-01-24 16:28:00+00:00| seen| MISP/5c49e6e0-a794-4c2f-afe2-4c8e0a021402 2019-01-25 00:00:00+00:00| exploited| https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46248 2019-01-28 15:10:00+00:00| seen| MISP/5c4f1a2e-1300-4391-87cf-19c50a021402 2020-10-09...

How GPS Tracking Technology Can Curb Domestic Violence

Opinion: GPS-monitored violent offenders are 95 percent less likely to commit a new crime. We need to implement an integrated, nationwide domestic violence program that tracks domestic abusers...

Information Disclosure

Firefox is vulnerable to information disclosure. Network connection is preserved for favicon resource retrieval after the browser is closed. This allows remote web servers to track users by observing network traffic from multiple IP addresses...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

Linux kernel-rt is vulnerable to denial of service. An integer overflow flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's netfilter connection tracking implementation loaded extensions. An attacker on a local network could potentially send a sequence of specially crafted packets that would initiate th...

Session ID Disclosure

The org.apache.catalina.connector.Response.encodeURL method in Red Hat JBoss Web 7.1.x and earlier, when the tracking mode is set to COOKIE, sends the jsessionid in the URL of the first response of a session, which allows remote attackers to obtain the session id 1 via a man-in-the-middle attack ...

Ring Security Cam Snooping, Location Tracking, and More Security News This Week

A German hack confession, unencrypted government sites, and more security news this week...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-4278

In Safari before 11.1.2, iTunes before 12.8 for Windows, iOS before 11.4.1, tvOS before 11.4.1, iCloud for Windows before 7.6, sound fetched through audio elements may be exfiltrated cross-origin. This issue was addressed with improved audio taint tracking...

CVE-2018-4278

In Safari before 11.1.2, iTunes before 12.8 for Windows, iOS before 11.4.1, tvOS before 11.4.1, iCloud for Windows before 7.6, sound fetched through audio elements may be exfiltrated cross-origin. This issue was addressed with improved audio taint tracking...

imagemagick/encoder_ept3_fuzzer: Use-of-uninitialized-value in WriteBlob

Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=5085775568306176 Project: imagemagick Fuzzer: libFuzzerimagemagickencoderept3fuzzer Fuzz target binary: encoderept3fuzzer Job Type: libfuzzermsanimagemagick Platform Id: linux Crash Type: Use-of-uninitialized-value Crash Address: Crash State:...

CVE-2018-16087

Lack of proper state tracking in Permissions in Google Chrome prior to 69.0.3497.81 allowed a remote attacker to bypass navigation restrictions via a crafted HTML page...

CVE-2018-16087

Lack of proper state tracking in Permissions in Google Chrome prior to 69.0.3497.81 allowed a remote attacker to bypass navigation restrictions via a crafted HTML page...

Design/Logic Flaw

Lack of proper state tracking in Permissions in Google Chrome prior to 69.0.3497.81 allowed a remote attacker to bypass navigation restrictions via a crafted HTML page...