FTC Launches Investigations into Mobile Apps for Kids

The Federal Trade Commission on Monday said it’s launching “non-public investigations” to determine if mobile application providers are violating federal laws by collecting information on children without their parents’ permission. A report indicates almost 60 percent 235 of the children-centric...

Small Medical Offices Biggest Risk to Patient Data Security, Privacy

Small physician practices, much like their small commercial business counterparts, have been the primary source of health care related data breaches, according to an analysis of breaches from 2009 to October 2012 released today by the Health Information Trust Alliance HITRUST. These smaller medic...

Check for File Checksum Violations

Check for File Checksum Violations ATTENTION: This VT is deprecated. Please use the new set of 4 VTs to handle file checksum policies which are to be found in the family SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyrigh...

FreeBSD : jenkins -- multiple vulnerabilities (d846af5b-00f4-11e2-b6d0-00e0814cab4e)

Jenkins Security Advisory reports : This advisory announces security vulnerabilities that were found in Jenkins core and several plugins. - The first vulnerability in Jenkins core allows unprivileged users to insert data into Jenkins master, which can lead to remote code execution. For this...

jenkins -- multiple vulnerabilities

Jenkins Security Advisory reports: This advisory announces security vulnerabilities that were found in Jenkins core and several plugins. The first vulnerability in Jenkins core allows unprivileged users to insert data into Jenkins master, which can lead to remote code execution. For this...

Pirate Bay Founder Arrested in Cambodia

Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, one of the founders of the file sharing website The Pirate Bay has been arrested in Cambodia after an international warrant was issued following a conviction in Sweden for copyright violations. The Swedish foreign ministry has confirmed only that a Swedish man "in his...

Critics Continue Pushing for Bigger Probe into Google Street View Practices

Privacy advocates continue urging for a wider federal investigation into Google Street View practices following Google’s $25,000 fine for stonewalling federal officials during an earlier probe of Wi-Fi snooping allegations. The Federal Communications Commission late last week gave the Internet...

RockYou Agrees to $250K FTC Fine Over Loss Of 32m Passwords

The Federal Trade Commission announced on Tuesday that it had reached a settlement with RockYou over violations of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act COPPA after the Web site allowed hackers to gain access to the personal information of its 32 million members. In a statement published o...

Mobile Security Research Rife With Legal Pitfalls

VANCOUVER–The shift to mobile computing platforms in recent years has made life much easier for many users, but it’s also made life a lot more difficult for security researchers. Working on any software or hardware product carries with it a number of potential legal challenges, but mobile and...

PacketFence 3.2.0 released

PacketFence 3.2.0 released The PacketFence development team has published version 3.2.0 of its open source network access control NAC system. PacketFence allows organisations to increase control over their network by enforcing authentication and registration for newly connected devices. It also...

Biggest Independent Russian Election site Hacked on election day

Biggest Independent Russian Election site Hacked on election day Popular Russian media websites, the major LiveJournal social network and the website of the country's biggest independent election watchdog, were inaccessible in hacking attacks for several hours on Sunday in what their employees sa...

Biggest Independent Russian Election site Hacked on election day

Biggest Independent Russian Election site Hacked on election day Popular Russian media websites, the major LiveJournal social network and the website of the country's biggest independent election watchdog, were inaccessible in hacking attacks for several hours on Sunday in what their employees sa...

Adobe AIR <= 3.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB11-28)

According to its version, the instance of Adobe AIR installed on the remote Windows host is 3.0 or earlier and is reportedly affected by several critical vulnerabilities : - Several unspecified memory corruption errors exist that could lead to code execution. CVE-2011-2445, CVE-2011-2451,...

Report: FTC Nears Deal with Facebook For Opt-In Privacy Changes

The deal will settle an FTC case alleging privacy violations on the social network by forcing users to opt in to any changes to default privacy settings, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The FTC inquiry dates back more than two years, and followed changes to the default privacy...

Google Fixes 27 Bugs in Chrome 15

Google has fixed more than two dozen vulnerabilities in its Chrome browser and also implemented a defense against the BEAST SSL attack. The bugs fixed in the new version of Chrome include 11 high-severity flaws. As part of its bug bounty program, Google paid more than $26,000 in rewards to...

Blowback: Microsoft, OnStar Pump the Brakes on Location Tracking

Redmond, Washington software giant, Microsoft, and Detroit based GM subsidiary, OnStar backtracked on policies widely seen as egregious privacy violations following lawsuits and public outcry. Here’s the news: Windows Phone Update Requires User Consent For Tracking Microsoft released their “Mango...

Department of Homeland Security warns Anonymous Hackers

Department of Homeland Security warns Anonymous Hackers The Department of Homeland Security is beginning to take Anonymous and other non-professional cyber-attackers more seriously as it issues a warning about potential attacks. The 2 September security bulletin from the DHS National Cyber-Securi...

Google Chrome < 13.0.782.107 Multiple Vulnerabilities

The version of Google Chrome installed on the remote host is earlier than 13.0.782.107. As such, it is potentially affected by several vulnerabilities : - An unspecified error exists related to extension installation and confirmation dialogs. Issue 75821 - A stale pointer issue exists related to...

Check for File Policy Violations

Check for File Policy Violations ATTENTION: This VT is deprecated. Please use the new set of 4 VTs to handle file policies which are to be found in the family SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the...

Anonymous Plans Sony Boycott on April 16

Anonymous Plans Sony Boycott on April 16 Say you're a hacker trying to cripple a major electronics company for suing its own users: how do you launch a cyberattack without harming the people you're trying to protect? In the case of hactivist group 'Anonymous,' which has spent the week targeting...