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Content tagged with Privacy posted in December 2016
China’s Cybersecurity Law Seeks Scrutiny Of Technology
Quick Hits  |  12/28/2016  | 
Country’s top internet regulator releases framework for stricter cyberspace laws, including review of local and foreign technology.
Year 2016 Sees Record Deployment Of HTTPS By Firefox, Chrome
Quick Hits  |  12/27/2016  | 
More than half of Web pages loaded by the browsers guarantee protection to visitors.
Financial Data Worth Millions Unwittingly Exposed In Ameriprise Accounts
Quick Hits  |  12/19/2016  | 
Leak of bank account and financial planning details emanated from a financial advisor's unsecured Internet-connected backup drive at home.
Ashley Madison To Pay $17.5 Million In Breach Settlement
Quick Hits  |  12/15/2016  | 
Ashley Madison was found guilty of lax data security and also corrupt practices including photo and profile misuse.
8 Most Hackable Holiday Gifts, 2016 Edition
Slideshows  |  12/14/2016  | 
You better watch out! Otherwise, you may be giving the gift of malware or unauthorized access to networks and devices.
Dailymotion Advises Password Change After Possible Data Breach
Quick Hits  |  12/7/2016  | 
Breach not yet confirmed, but LeakedSource says it has compromised IDs of over 87 million Dailymotion users, protected by bcrypt.
Hacker Of Celeb Emails Goes To Jail For Five Years
Quick Hits  |  12/7/2016  | 
Bahamian Alonzo Knowles was sentenced for illegal access of 130 celebrity email accounts and selling their personal information.
Dark Web Vendor Gets 50 Months Jail For ID Theft
Quick Hits  |  12/2/2016  | 
Minnesota resident Aaron Glende aka IcyEagle caught selling stolen bank details on AlphaBay market.


When It Comes To Security Tools, More Isn't More
Lamont Orange, Chief Information Security Officer at Netskope,  1/11/2021
US Capitol Attack a Wake-up Call for the Integration of Physical & IT Security
Seth Rosenblatt, Contributing Writer,  1/11/2021
IoT Vendor Ubiquiti Suffers Data Breach
Dark Reading Staff 1/11/2021
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CVE-2020-25533
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An issue was discovered in Malwarebytes before 4.0 on macOS. A malicious application was able to perform a privileged action within the Malwarebytes launch daemon. The privileged service improperly validated XPC connections by relying on the PID instead of the audit token. An attacker can construct ...
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Docker Desktop Community before 2.5.0.0 on macOS mishandles certificate checking, leading to local privilege escalation.
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PUBLISHED: 2021-01-15
OneDev is an all-in-one devops platform. In OneDev before version 4.0.3, there is a critical vulnerability which can lead to pre-auth remote code execution. AttachmentUploadServlet deserializes untrusted data from the `Attachment-Support` header. This Servlet does not enforce any authentication or a...
CVE-2021-21245
PUBLISHED: 2021-01-15
OneDev is an all-in-one devops platform. In OneDev before version 4.0.3, AttachmentUploadServlet also saves user controlled data (`request.getInputStream()`) to a user specified location (`request.getHeader("File-Name")`). This issue may lead to arbitrary file upload which can be used to u...
CVE-2021-21246
PUBLISHED: 2021-01-15
OneDev is an all-in-one devops platform. In OneDev before version 4.0.3, the REST UserResource endpoint performs a security check to make sure that only administrators can list user details. However for the `/users/` endpoint there are no security checks enforced so it is possible to retrieve ar...