The Family That Mined the Pentagon's Data for Profit

The Freedom of Information Act helps Americans learn what the government is up to. The Poseys exploited it—and became unlikely defenders of transparency...

Qualys Security Updates: Cloud Agent for Linux

The security and protection of our customers is of the utmost importance to Qualys, as is transparency whenever issues arise. A customer responsibly disclosed two scenarios related to the Qualys Cloud Agent: 1. For the first scenario, we added supplementary safeguards for signatures running on...

Why Cybersecurity Needs to be a Part of Your ESG

What is an ESG? Environmental, social, and corporate governance ESG documentation is a way to visualize and evaluate how an organization is working for the betterment of social goals and how that organization is responding to the cry for greener, more aware, and more responsible, sustainable...

Aflac Reduces Critical Vulnerabilities by 55% with Qualys VMDR 2.0 with TruRisk

The following is a guest blog by Aflac, a Qualys VMDR customer, on their recent experience completing a Proof of Concept project for the newly release VMDR 2.0 with Qualys TruRisk. About Aflac Aflac Inc. NYSE: AFL is an insurance leader and the largest provider of supplemental insurance in the...

Google Bringing the Android App Permissions Section Back to the Play Store

Google on Thursday said it's backtracking on a recent change that removed the app permissions list from the Google Play Store for Android across both the mobile app and the web. "Privacy and transparency are core values in the Android community," the Android Developers team said in a series of...

transparencia.camarabelojardim.pe.gov.br Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-2735207

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...

Twitter Fined $150 Million for Misusing Users' Data for Advertising Without Consent

Twitter, which is in the process of being acquired by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, has agreed to pay $150 million to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission FTC to settle allegations that it abused non-public information collected for security purposes to serve targeted ads. In addition to the monetary penalty...

transparencia.camarabelojardim.pe.gov.br Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-2619178

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...

[SECURITY] Fedora 36 Update: chafa-1.8.0-4.fc36

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...

Facebook phishers threaten users with Page Recovery Help Support

We’ve seen multiple hijacked profiles on Facebook recently claiming to be account recovery services. These bogus account recovery services arent here to help. Theyre actually just trying to scare users into falling for phishing attempts. The people behind these scams target Facebook pages belongi...

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...

ghostscript:gstoraster_fuzzer: Crash in pdf14_buf_free

Detailed Report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=6390481371660288 Project: ghostscript Fuzzing Engine: libFuzzer Fuzz Target: gstorasterfuzzer Job Type: libfuzzerasanghostscript Platform Id: linux Crash Type: UNKNOWN READ Crash Address: 0x0000ffff8000 Crash State: pdf14buffree rcpdf14maskbuffre...

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...