Google Bans 600 Android Apps for Obnoxious Ads

Google has removed nearly 600 Android apps from the Play Store for serving up obnoxious, invasive ads that aren’t easily “x’d” out of. The internet giant said the enforcement action was a strike against mobile ad fraud. Google said Thursday that the apps violated its disruptive ads policy – and a...

Microsoft Insider Risk Management and Communication Compliance in Microsoft 365 now generally available

Microsoft Insider Risk Management and Communication Compliance in Microsoft 365—now generally available—help organizations address internal risks, such as IP theft or code of conduct policy violations. The new Microsoft Insider Risk Management solution helps to quickly identify, detect, and act o...

QEMU Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (CNVD-2020-10714)

QEMU Quick Emulator is a set of simulation processor software by French software developer Fabrice Bellard. The software is fast, cross-platform and other characteristics. A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the iSCSI Block driver in version 2.12.0 prior to QEMU 4.2.1. The vulnerability...

New Research on the Adtech Industry

The Norwegian Consumer Council has published an extensive report about how the adtech industry violates consumer privacy. At the same time, it is filing three legal complaints against six companies in this space. From a Twitter summary: 1. thread We are filing legal complaints against six...

Libyang Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

libyang is a YANG data modeling language parser and toolkit written in C. It can be used as a toolkit for data modeling. A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in versions prior to libyang 1.0-r5. The vulnerability stems from a networked system or product that performs operations in memory withou...

Cross site scripting

Cross-site Scripting XSS in Jenkins main before 1.482 and LTS before 1.466.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML in the Violations plugin...

CVE-2012-4440

Cross-site Scripting XSS in Jenkins main before 1.482 and LTS before 1.466.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML in the Violations plugin...

CVE-2012-4440

CVE-2012-4440 is a Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Jenkins involving the Violations plugin. The issue affects Jenkins core builds prior to 1.482 and LTS lines prior to 1.466.2, where remote attackers could inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Violations plugin. The connected do...

CVE-2012-4440

Cross-site Scripting XSS in Jenkins main before 1.482 and LTS before 1.466.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML in the Violations plugin...

Google's Plan to Crunch Health Data on Millions of Patients Draws Fire

Tech behemoth Google is using artificial intelligence to reportedly slice and dice personal healthcare details on millions of Americans. That has some researchers diagnosing the company with HIPAA violations and prescribing regulatory controls as a remedy. And, at least one federal regulator is...

ARM Mbed OS CoAP library buffer overflow vulnerability

ARM Mbed OS is a suite of open source embedded operating systems dedicated to the Internet of Things IoT from ARM in the U.K. The CoAP library is one of the Constrained Application Protocol CoAP libraries. A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the CoAP library in Arm Mbed OS version 5.14.0. T...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-8771

This issue was addressed with improved iframe sandbox enforcement. This issue is fixed in Safari 13.0.1, iOS 13. Maliciously crafted web content may violate iframe sandboxing policy...

Facebook Removed Tens of Thousands of Apps Post-Cambridge Analytica

Facebook said it has suspended tens of thousands of apps as part of its ongoing investigation into how third-party apps on its platform collect, handle and utilize users’ personal data. The results of the investigation, launched in March 2018 in response to Facebook’s infamous Cambridge Analytica...

The vulnerability of HP Deskjet printer’s microprogramming software, related to the falsification of inter-site requests, allows a perpetrator to cause malfunctions in service or configuration of the device.

The vulnerability of HP Deskjet printer’s microprogramming software is related to the manipulation of inter-site requests. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to cause service failures or configuration violations of the device remotely...

NewStart CGSL MAIN 4.05 : firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2019-0167)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 4.05, has firefox packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities: - A possible vulnerability exists where type confusion can occur when manipulating JavaScript objects in object groups, allowing for the bypassing of security...

Cisco 'Knowingly' Sold Hackable Video Surveillance System to U.S. Government

Cisco Systems has agreed to pay $8.6 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the company of knowingly selling video surveillance system containing severe security vulnerabilities to the U.S. federal and state government agencies. It's believed to be the first payout on a 'False Claims Act' case...

Facebook Agrees to Pay $5 Billion Fine and Setup New Privacy Program for 20 Years

The Federal Trade Commission FTC today officially confirmed that Facebook has agreed to pay a record-breaking $5 billion fine over privacy violations surrounding the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Besides the multibillion-dollar penalty, the company has also accepted a 20-year-long agreement that...

Facebook Agrees to Pay $5 Billion Fine and Setup New Privacy Program for 20 Years

The Federal Trade Commission FTC today officially confirmed that Facebook has agreed to pay a record-breaking $5 billion fine over privacy violations surrounding the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Besides the multibillion-dollar penalty, the company has also accepted a 20-year-long agreement that...

Equifax to Pay $700 Million in 2017 Data Breach Settlement

Equifax will pay as much as $700 million to settle federal and state investigations on the heels of its infamous 2017 breach, which exposed the data of almost 150 million customers. The consumer credit reporting agency on Monday said it will dish out $300 million to cover free credit monitoring...

Privacy Experts: Facebook's $5B Fine Unlikely to Do Much

The $5 billion fine that the Federal Trade Commission has slapped on Facebook for privacy violations may be the largest ever levied by the agency, but it’s being derided as “chump change” and ineffective by lawmakers and privacy analysts. The settlement, reported Friday evening, stems from...