Facebook Offering $40,000 Bounty If You Find Evidence Of Data Leaks

Facebook pays millions of dollars every year to researchers and bug hunters to stamp out security holes in its products and infrastructure, but following Cambridge Analytica scandal, the company today launched a bounty program to reward users for reporting "data abuse" on its platform. The move...

MGASA-2018-0046 Updated binutils packages fix security vulnerability

Exploitable buffer overflow CVE-2016-2226. Invalid write due to a use-after-free to array btypevec CVE-2016-4487. Invalid write due to a use-after-free to array ktypevec CVE-2016-4488. Invalid write due to integer overflow CVE-2016-4489. Write access violation CVE-2016-4490. Write access violatio...

Updated binutils packages fix security vulnerability

Exploitable buffer overflow CVE-2016-2226. Invalid write due to a use-after-free to array btypevec CVE-2016-4487. Invalid write due to a use-after-free to array ktypevec CVE-2016-4488. Invalid write due to integer overflow CVE-2016-4489. Write access violation CVE-2016-4490. Write access violatio...

Web Privacy Measurement Framework: OpenWPM

Web Privacy Measurement is the observation of websites and serves to detect, characterize and quantify privacy-impacting behaviors. Applications of Web Privacy Measurement include the detection of price discrimination, targeted news articles and new forms of browser fingerprinting. Although...

YouTube terminated its own channel “Citizentube” for multiple or severe violations

By Waqas In April 2007, YouTube launched its official channel on the This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: YouTube terminated its own channel Citizentube for multiple or severe violations...

New Relic: NR Internal_API call allows me to read the events/violations/policies/messages of ANY New Relic account (AND pull data from infrastructure)

@jonbottarini identified an issue with an API used to populate the UI across different products. This API wasn't properly validating the account ID for certain requests, returning information for any ID presented. I wrote up a quick overview about this issue here:...

Facebook slapped with $1.43 million fine for violating users' privacy in Spain

Facebook is once again in trouble regarding its users' privacy. The social media giant has recently been heavily fined once again for a series of privacy violations in Spain. Recently, Google also incurred a record-breaking fine of $2.7 billion €2.42 billion by the European antitrust officials fo...

lua-resty-waf

It is an offensive tool for web application firewalls WAFs. The repository, huangjacky/lua-resty-waf, contains a high-performance WAF built on the OpenResty stack. The tool is designed to protect against various types of attacks, including HTTP violations, HTTP anomalies, SQL injection, and gener...

Database Activity Monitoring: A Do’s and Don’ts Checklist for DBAs

In a previous post, we looked at the limitations of native audit, the free tool often used by database administrators DBAs for logging database activity. While it has its appeal—it’s already part of the database server and does not require additional cost for third-party appliances or...

SUSE-SU-2017:0714-1 Security update for MozillaFirefox

This update for MozillaFirefox to ESR 45.8 fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed bsc1028391: - CVE-2017-5402: Use-after-free working with events in FontFace objects - CVE-2017-5410: Memory corruption during JavaScript garbage collection incremental sweeping - CVE-2017-5400: asm.js...

[20170407] - Core - ACL Violations

Inadequate mime type checks allowed low-privilege users to upload swf files even if they were explicitly forbidden...

Telemarketing Firm Leaks 400,000 Recorded Calls

More than 400,000 audio files associated with a Florida company’s telemarketing efforts were stored online in the clear, and were discovered earlier this month by researchers at MacKeeper. More than 17,600 of those audio recordings were customer transactions that included names, addresses, and...

Many Android VPN Apps Breaking Privacy Promises

An alarming number of Android VPNs are providing a decidedly false sense of security to users, especially those living in areas where communication is censored or technology is crucial to the privacy and physical security. A study published recently identified a number of shortcomings common to...

Microsoft Edge - CBase­Scriptable::Private­Query­Interface Memory Corruption (MS16-068)

Microsoft Edge - CBase­Scriptable::Private­Query­Interface Memory Corruption MS16-068 Source: http://blog.skylined.nl/20161205001.html Synopsis A specially crafted web-page can trigger a memory corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Edge. I did not investigate this vulnerability thoroughly, so I...

KLA10909 Security vulnerabilitity in Mozilla Firefox

An unspecified vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox 49 and 50. It can be exploited to gain priveleges. Technical details Redirection from HTTP connection to a data:URL assigns the referring of site origin to the data: URL in some cases. Because of that same-origin violations against a domai...

mozilla -- data: URL can inherit wrong origin after an HTTP redirect

The Mozilla Foundation reports: Redirection from an HTTP connection to a data: URL assigns the referring site's origin to the data: URL in some circumstances. This can result in same-origin violations against a domain if it loads resources from malicious sites. Cross-origin setting of cookies has...

The vulnerabilities of Adobe Reader and Adobe Reader Document Cloud, as well as Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Acrobat Document Cloud, allow a perpetrator to trigger service interruptions or execute arbitrary codes.

The vulnerabilities of PDF viewer programs such as Adobe Reader and Adobe Reader Document Cloud, as well as PDF editing programs like Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Acrobat Document Cloud, are due to an operation that goes beyond the buffer boundaries in memory. Exploiting these vulnerabilities can allo...

The vulnerabilities of Adobe Reader and Adobe Reader Document Cloud, as well as Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Acrobat Document Cloud, allow a perpetrator to trigger service interruptions or execute arbitrary codes.

The vulnerabilities of PDF viewer programs such as Adobe Reader and Adobe Reader Document Cloud, as well as PDF editing programs like Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Acrobat Document Cloud, are due to an operation that goes beyond the buffer boundaries in memory. Exploiting these vulnerabilities can allo...

The vulnerability of the Adobe AIR software platform allows a perpetrator to execute arbitrary code or cause service failures.

The vulnerability of the Adobe AIR software platform is related to memory integrity violations. Exploiting this vulnerability allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause service failures...

SSL/TLS: Policy Check Violations

SSL/TLS Policy Check Violations. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG 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-only ifdescription scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.105780";...