Recently Google’s FLoC proposal has been making the rounds in the news. FLoC stands for “federated learning of cohorts” and is Google’s vision how to perform user profiling in Chrome going forward.
Currently user tracking and profiling happens (mostly) via cookies, but many browser vendors have been supportive of protection of their users and started blocking third party and tracking cookies - or at least offer features in their browser to enable blocking.
Summary
Samba published a security advisory addressing a vulnerability in all versions of the Samba file server released since version 3.6.0.
Threat Type
Vulnerability
Overview
Samba published a security advisory addressing a vulnerability in all versions of the Samba file server released since version 3.6.0. The vulnerability is cause by a flaw in the code that map Windows group identities (SIDs) into unix group ids (gids). The vulnerability could potentially allow a local attacker to cause a denial of ser
Akamai's Ohana ERG launched in 2015, along with a number of other ERGs, with the mission to broaden and facilitate the inclusion and contributions of employees of African American, Black, Hispanic, and Latin American descent and association.
Summary
The ISC has published three Security Advisories pertaining to BIND. ISC has rated two of the advisories as High and one as Medium.
Threat Type
Vulnerability
Overview
Three Security Advisories for BIND have been published by the ISC. Two of the advisories have been rated as High and one as Medium by the ISC. All three of the vulnerabilities addressed by the advisories are exploitable remotely and have a potential impact of denial of service conditions. One of the vulnerabilities, CVE-2021-25216, if t
Summary
Apple has published security updates for iCloud for Windows, Xcode, Safari, iOS and iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, and macOS: Big Sur, Catalina, and Mojave. One of the vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-30657) addressed in the updates for macOS Big Sur, and Catalina, has been reported independently as being exploited in the wild.
Threat Type
Vulnerability
Overview
Apple has published security updates for iCloud for Windows, Xcode, Safari, iOS and iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, and macOS: Big Sur, Catalina, and Mojave. Colle
On April 20, 2021, the Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released an alert on the exploitation of Pulse Connect Secure Vulnerabilities with Alert AA21-110A: Exploitation of Pulse Connect Secure Vulnerabilities, as well as Emergency Directive (ED) 21-03, after a FireEye blog shed light on security incidents involving compromises of Pulse Secure VPN appliances.
Summary
Cisco has published thirteen Security Advisories. Of the advisories, five are rated as High and eight are rated as Medium.
Threat Type
Vulnerability
Overview
Cisco has published thirteen Security Advisories. Of the advisories, five are rated as High and eight are rated as Medium. For all advisories listed below, it is noted that Cisco's Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) is "not aware of any public announcements or malicious use of the vulnerabilities" that are described in the advisori