WhatsApp Introduces New Device Verification Feature to Prevent Account Takeover Attacks

Popular instant messaging app WhatsApp on Thursday announced a new account verification feature that ensures that malware running on a user's mobile device doesn't impact their account. "Mobile device malware is one of the biggest threats to people's privacy and security today because it can take...

Certwatcher - Tool For Capture And Tracking Certificate Transparency Logs, Using YAML Templates Based DSL

CertWatcher is a tool for capturing and tracking certificate transparency logs, using YAML templates. The tool helps detect and analyze websites using regular expression patterns and is designed for ease of use by security professionals and researchers. Certwatcher continuously monitors the...

Google Mandates Android Apps to Offer Easy Account Deletion In-App and Online

Google is enacting a new data deletion policy for Android apps that allow account creation to also offer users with a setting to delete their accounts in an attempt to provide more transparency and control over their data. "For apps that enable app account creation, developers will soon need to...

Google Mandates Android Apps to Offer Easy Account Deletion In-App and Online

Google is enacting a new data deletion policy for Android apps that allow account creation to also offer users with a setting to delete their accounts in an attempt to provide more transparency and control over their data. "For apps that enable app account creation, developers will soon need to...

CertWatcher - A Tool For Capture And Tracking Certificate Transparency Logs, Using YAML Templates Based DSL

CertWatcher is a tool for capture and tracking certificate transparency logs, using YAML templates. The tool helps to detect and analyze phishing websites and regular expression patterns, and is designed to make it easy to use for security professionals and researchers. Certwatcher continuously...

Lottery owner can rig the draw to win the jackpot by swapping the source

Lines of code Vulnerability details Lottery owner can rig the draw to win the jackpot by swapping the source Impact The lottery owner has the ability to swap the Random Source under certain cirumstances, and this can be exploited to set a new source contract that returns any number set by it. Thi...

Experts Reveal Google Cloud Platform's Blind Spot for Data Exfiltration Attacks

Malicious actors can take advantage of "insufficient" forensic visibility into Google Cloud Platform GCP to exfiltrate sensitive data, a new research has found. "Unfortunately, GCP does not provide the level of visibility in its storage logs that is needed to allow any effective forensic...

Even Top-Ranked Android Apps in Google Play Store Provide Misleading Data Safety Labels

An investigation into data safety labels for Android apps available on the Google Play Store has uncovered "serious loopholes" that allow apps to provide misleading or outright false information. The study, conducted by the Mozilla Foundation as part of its Privacy Not Included initiative, compar...

[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: OpenImageIO-2.4.8.1-1.fc37

OpenImageIO is a library for reading and writing images, and a bunch of relat ed classes, utilities, and applications. Main features include: - Extremely simple but powerful ImageInput and ImageOutput APIs for reading a nd writing 2D images that is format agnostic. - Format plugins for TIFF,...

transparencia.ma.gov.br Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3201265

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

SUSE CVE-2012-3966

Mozilla Firefox before 15.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.7, Thunderbird before 15.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.7, and SeaMonkey before 2.12 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service memory corruption via a negative height value in a BMP image within a...

SUSE CVE-2016-10220

The gsmakewordimagedevice function in base/gsdevmem.c in Artifex Software, Inc. Ghostscript 9.20 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and application crash via a crafted file that is mishandled in the PDF Transparency module...

SUSE CVE-2016-10218

The pdf14poptransparencygroup function in base/gdevp14.c in the PDF Transparency module in Artifex Software, Inc. Ghostscript 9.20 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and application crash via a crafted file...

Rapid7 Recognized on Bloomberg Gender Equality Index, Continues Commitments to Support DEI

For the fifth year in a row, Rapid7 is pleased to share that we've been included in the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index. The Gender Equality Index GEI recognizes publicly traded companies for being transparent in their commitment to gender equality. This includes how they score in areas such as...

I’m Now a Full-Time Professional Open Source Maintainer

or, "Holy shit, it works!" Last May I left my job on the Go team at Google to experiment with more sustainable paths for open-source maintainers. I held on to my various maintainer hats Go cryptography, transparency tooling, age, mkcert, yubikey-agent…, iterated on the model since September, and ...

transparencia.camarabelojardim.pe.gov.br Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3166962

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

How to build a secure foundation for identity and access

The security community is continuously changing, growing, and learning from each other to better position the world against cyberthreats. In the latest post of our Community Voices blog series, Microsoft Security Senior Product Marketing Manager Brooke Lynn Weenig talks with Christina Richmond, a...

Who tracked internet users in 2021–2022

Every time you go online, someone is watching over you. The services you use, the websites you visit, the apps on your phone, smart TVs, gaming consoles, and any networked devices collect data on you with the help of trackers installed on web pages or in software. The websites and services send...

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Simplify privacy protection with Microsoft Priva Subject Rights Requests

The General Data Protection Regulation GDPR came into effect in 2018 and set a new standard for the level of control individuals in the European Union had on the personal data they shared online. Since then, the number of privacy regulations around the world has flourished and impacted the privac...