Google's New Safety Section Shows What Data Android Apps Collect About Users

Google on Tuesday officially began rolling out a new "Data safety" section for Android apps on the Play Store to highlight the type of data being collected and shared with third-parties. "Users want to know for what purpose their data is being collected and whether the developer is sharing user...

MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Evaluation: InsightIDR Drives Strong Signal-to-Noise

Rapid7 is very excited to share the results of our participation in MITRE Engenuity’s latest ATT&CK Evaluation, which examines how adversaries abuse data encryption to exploit organizations. With this evaluation, our customers and the broader security community get a deeper understanding of how...

OSV-2022-271 UNKNOWN READ in pdf14_buf_free

OSS-Fuzz report: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=45892 Crash type: UNKNOWN READ Crash state: pdf14buffree rcpdf14maskbuffree pdf14endtransparencymask...

Facebook Hit With $18.6 Million GDPR Fine Over 12 Data Breaches in 2018

The Irish Data Protection Commission DPC on Tuesday slapped Facebook and WhatsApp owner Meta Platforms a fine of €17 million $18.6 million for a series of security lapses that occurred in violation of the European Union's GDPR laws in the region. "The DPC found that Meta Platforms failed to have ...

Leak of Russian Censorship Data

The transparency organization Distributed Denial of Secrets has released 800GB of data from Roskomnadzor, the Russian government censorship organization. Specifically, Distributed Denial of Secrets says the data comes from the Roskomnadzor of the Republic of Bashkortostan. The Republic of...

GHSA-CCXC-VR6P-4858 Improper Certificate Validation in Cosign

Impact Cosign can be manipulated to claim that an entry for a signature exists in the Rekor transparency log even if it doesn't. This requires the attacker to have pull and push permissions for the signature in OCI. This can happen with both standard signing with a keypair and "keyless signing"...

Design/Logic Flaw

Cosign provides container signing, verification, and storage in an OCI registry for the sigstore project. Prior to version 1.5.2, Cosign can be manipulated to claim that an entry for a signature exists in the Rekor transparency log even if it doesn't. This requires the attacker to have pull and...

CVE-2022-23649 Improper Certificate Validation in Cosign

Cosign provides container signing, verification, and storage in an OCI registry for the sigstore project. Prior to version 1.5.2, Cosign can be manipulated to claim that an entry for a signature exists in the Rekor transparency log even if it doesn't. This requires the attacker to have pull and...

CVE-2022-23649

Cosign provides container signing, verification, and storage in an OCI registry for the sigstore project. Prior to version 1.5.2, Cosign can be manipulated to claim that an entry for a signature exists in the Rekor transparency log even if it doesn't. This requires the attacker to have pull and...

Vendors are Fixing Security Flaws Faster

Googles Project Zero is reporting that software vendors are patching their code faster. tl;dr In 2021, vendors took an average of 52 days to fix security vulnerabilities reported from Project Zero. This is a significant acceleration from an average of about 80 days 3 years ago. In addition to the...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Apache Log4j affects IBM Spectrum Scale (CVE-2021-4104)

Summary A vulnerability in Apache Log4j could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system. This vulnerability may affect IBM Spectrum Scale due to its use of Log4j for logging. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2021-4104 DESCRIPTION: Apache Log4j could allow a remote attacker to...

How to Read Your iOS 15 App Privacy Report

Your iPhone now gives you lots of transparency into what your downloads are up to. Here's what to look out for...

[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: chafa-1.2.1-6.fc34

Chafa is a command-line utility that converts all kinds of images, including animated image formats like GIFs, into ANSI/Unicode character output that can be displayed in a terminal. It is highly configurable, with support for alpha transparency and multiple color modes and color spaces, combinin...

[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: chafa-1.2.1-6.fc35

Chafa is a command-line utility that converts all kinds of images, including animated image formats like GIFs, into ANSI/Unicode character output that can be displayed in a terminal. It is highly configurable, with support for alpha transparency and multiple color modes and color spaces, combinin...

Robinhood Trading Platform Data Breach Hits 7M Customers

Investor trading app company Robinhood Markets has confirmed a data breach that affects the personal information of about 7 million customers – roughly a third of its user base. A cyberattacker made off with emails and more, which could lead to follow-on attacks for Robinhood customers. The tradi...

Product Overview - Cynet Centralized Log Management

For most organizations today, the logs produced by their security tools and environments provide a mixed bag. On the one hand, they can be a trove of valuable data on security breaches, vulnerabilities, attack patterns, and general security insights. On the other, organizations don't have the rig...

VECTR - A Tool That Facilitates Tracking Of Your Red And Blue Team Testing Activities To Measure Detection And Prevention Capabilities Across Different Attack Scenarios

VECTR documentation can be found here: https://docs.vectr.io VECTR Community Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/2FRd8zf728 VECTR is a tool that facilitates tracking of your red and blue team testing activities to measure detection and prevention capabilities across different attack scenarios...

Mandating a Zero-Trust Approach for Software Supply Chains

In the wake of the SolarWinds attack last year, President Biden issued an executive order in May advocating for mandatory software bills of materials, or SBOMs, to increase software transparency and counter supply-chain attacks. For reference, SBOMs are machine-readable documents that provide a...

Missing events/timelocks for owner/admin only functions that change critical parameters

Handle defsec Vulnerability details Impact Owner/admin only functions that change critical parameters should emit events and have timelocks. Events allow capturing the changed parameters so that off-chain tools/interfaces can register such changes with timelocks that allow users to evaluate them...

Fedora: Security Advisory for gifsicle (FEDORA-2021-c351011066)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2021 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is free software; you can...