Facebook faces £500,000 fine in the U.K. over Cambridge Analytica scandal

Haythem Elmir

Facebook has been fined £500,000 ($664,000) in the U.K. for its conduct in the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal. Facebook has been fined £500,000 in the U.K., the maximum fine allowed by the UK’s Data Protection Act 1998, for failing to protect users’ personal information. Political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica improperly collected data of 87 […]

WORDPRESS CORRIGE UNE VULNÉRABILITÉ JOUR ZÉRO DANS SON CMS

Haythem Elmir

Une vulnérabilité   (0-day) importante a été corrigée à partir de la version 4.9.7 de WordPress. L’exploitation de cette vulnérabilité permettrait à un attaquant authentifié de supprimer des fichiers arbitraires sur le serveur, et d’exécuter du code arbitraire. Un utilisateur ayant des privilèges « auteur » ou supérieurs, pourrait, en supprimant définitivement la vignette d’une image téléversée, […]

China-based TEMP.Periscope APT targets Cambodia’s elections

Haythem Elmir

FireEye uncovered a large-scale Chinese phishing and hacking campaign powered by Temp.periscope APT aimed at Cambodia’s elections. Security researchers at FireEye have uncovered a large-scale Chinese phishing and hacking campaign aimed at Cambodia’s elections. The hackers distributed a remote access trojan (RAT) and data exfiltration operation targeting the poll. The experts from FireEye attributed the attacks […]

Timehop Data Breach Affects 21million Users’

Haythem Elmir

Timehop, an add-on app that reminisces people’s good old days on different social media platforms, has suffered a data breach on  July 4th,  that affected 21 million users. The stolen data includes names, email addresses, date of the birth,  and over 4.7 million users phone number that they linked to […]

Intel confirms new Spectre 1.1, 1.2 vulnerabilities

Haythem Elmir

Intel has confirmed the discovery of at least two more side-channel security vulnerabilities relating to the Spectre family of attacks in its processors, paying out a $100,000 bug bounty to the researchers who discovered them. The latest in a string of hardware-baked security vulnerabilities affecting the majority of the processors […]