What to do if I’ve been doxed: Actions to take in the first 24hours. If you are in immediate danger, please call your local emergency number. This is a step-by-step guide on actions to consider after being targeted online. It’s direct and concise by design. There’s no “right way” or order to go about things. Here is information so you can come up with an action plan that best supports your incident, goals, and needs. Trigger warning: For someone not in immediate need of an action plan, this guide could be triggering. If you are...
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What is Remote code execution: Cybercriminals use a wide range of techniques to target vulnerable systems, and remote code execution is one of them. According to a 2020 Global Threat Intelligence Report by NTT, remote code execution is the most used attack strategy, followed by injection attacks. The major benefit of this technique to hackers is that they can attack your system from anywhere, regardless of the location. A remote code execution facilitates an arm’s length attack allowing criminals to get away unharmed while leaving your data, business, and operations suffer irreparable...
What a tangled web we weave, indeed. About 40 percent of the world’s population uses the Web for news, entertainment, communication and myriad other purposes [source: Internet World Stats]. Yet even as more and more people log on, they are actually finding less of the data that’s stored online. That’s because only a sliver of what we know as the World Wide Web is easily accessible. The so-called surface Web, which all of us use routinely, consists of data that search engines can find and then offer up in response to...
Multiple Chrome browser extensions make use of a session token for Meta’s Facebook that grants access to signed-in users’ social network data in a way that violates the company’s policies and leaves users open to potential privacy violations. Security researcher Zach Edwards last week noted that Brave had blocked a Chrome extension called L.O.C. out of concern it exposed the user’s Facebook data to a third-party server without any notice or permission prompt. L.O.C. utilized an access token that can be easily obtained from Facebook’s Creator Studio web app. After extracting...
Running on blockchain, Web3 is expected to revolutionize the internet by changing the ownership and power of private data to the users. Some experts reckon due to its lack of central control and access to data, Web3 could make it even more difficult to police cybercrime. The Internet that most of us are a part of today is known as the Web2 — a place where we are beholden to centralized entities who control the flow of information while monopolizing and profiting off our data. The era of Web2,...
The French national data protection authority, CNIL, issued a formal notice to managers of an unnamed local website today arguing that its use of Google Analytics is in violation of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, following a similar decision by Austria last month. The root of the issue stems from the website’s use of Google Analytics, which functions as a tool for managers to track content performance and page visits. CNIL said the tool’s use and transfer of personal data to the U.S. fails to abide by landmark...
UPDATE (Feb 9, 2022): Microsoft initially patched this vulnerability without giving me any information or acknowledgement, and as such, at the time of patch release, I thought that the vulnerability was identified as CVE-2022–22718, since it was the only Print Spooler vulnerability in the release without any acknowledgement. I contacted Microsoft for clarification, and the day after the patch release, Institut For Cyber Risk and I was acknowledged for CVE-2022–21999. In this blog post, we’ll look at a Windows Print Spooler local privilege escalation vulnerability that I found and reported...
Information such as free school meal status, address, deprivation status, exam dispensation and special educational needs of Year 11 children at Greeensward Academy in Hockley was accidentally leaked by a teacher. SENSITIVE information about pupils was leaked to parents and students following a data breach Data breach at Greensward Academy High School The information was made available to Year 11 pupils and their parents via Google Classroom when a mock examinations timetable was shared by the teacher who was unaware the document also contained sensitive information. “It’s just unacceptable...
Cyber defenses for US drinking water supplies are “absolutely inadequate” and vulnerable to large-scale disruption by hackers, a senior official said Thursday. “There’s inadequate resilience to even a criminal sector,” the official said. “The threshold of resilience is not what it needs to be.” President Joe Biden has attempted to address infrastructure cybersecurity but is limited by the fact that the vast majority of services are provided by private, not government, companies. The scale of the challenge became clear in May last year when a ransomware attack temporarily crippled the...
The United Arab Emirates has intercepted two ballistic missiles targeting Abu Dhabi, the country’s defence ministry has said. Yemen’s Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for the offensive, saying they targeted al-Dhafra Air Base and other areas in the Emirati capital – along with sites in the Dubai region and the Saudi areas of Jizan and Asir. Houthi military spokesman Yehia Sarei warned that the UAE would continue to be a target “as long as attacks on the Yemeni people continue”. This is the rebels’ second assault on Abu Dhabi in a week following...
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