February 28, 2024 at 03:56PM President Biden signed an executive order to ban bulk sale and transfer of Americans’ private data to countries such as China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela. The Justice Department will block countries posing threats from accessing sensitive personal data, and new regulations aim to restrict risky data transactions. … Read more
February 28, 2024 at 10:51AM The White House is preparing a new Executive Order to safeguard personal information by preventing mass transfer of sensitive data to countries of concern. It aims to protect against surveillance, scams, and privacy violations. The order also focuses on safeguarding sensitive government-related data and commercial means of accessing Americans’ data. … Read more
February 28, 2024 at 05:27AM President Biden is set to sign an executive order preventing the transfer of Americans’ sensitive data to adversarial countries such as China and Russia. The White House plans to propose regulations prohibiting large data transfers to “countries of concern.” The rule will exempt routine commercial transactions and won’t come into … Read more
January 22, 2024 at 01:42PM The Apple ID HT214057 released on 2024-01-22 addresses several CVEs for macOS Monterey, including a privacy issue with improved data redaction, a memory handling improvement, and updates for multiple issues in curl, ImageIO, Mail Search, and WebKit. These updates mitigate potential risks of app access to sensitive data and arbitrary … Read more
January 22, 2024 at 01:42PM Summary: Multiple CVEs are addressed, including memory handling, timing side-channel issues, redaction of sensitive information, and improved handling of files. Updates are available for various products, such as Apple Neural Engine, CoreCrypto, Kernel, Mail Search, NSSpellChecker, etc., impacting devices like iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro, and more. From the … Read more
January 15, 2024 at 10:40AM The FTC secures settlement with X-Mode Social, prohibiting sale of sensitive location data. Outlogic to delete previously collected data and honor opt-out requests, under FTC settlement. Critical vulnerabilities in Cisco, Siemens, Rapid Software, and Fortinet products. iOSpionage campaign exploited Apple’s ECC. HMG hit by data breach, unable to identify compromised … Read more
January 9, 2024 at 03:37PM The U.S. FTC banned data broker Outlogic, formerly X-Mode Social, from selling Americans’ sensitive location data. The move responds to data brokers exposing individuals’ location data revealing sensitive information. Outlogic lacked protocols to remove sensitive locations and sometimes failed to respect individuals’ opt-out preferences. The ban follows an August 2022 … Read more
December 11, 2023 at 01:45PM Several security vulnerabilities have been addressed in Apple’s products, including issues with sensitive data redaction, memory handling, and potential code execution. Demonstrating a wide-reaching impact, vulnerabilities affect various products such as Accounts, AVEVideoEncoder, Find My, ImageIO, Kernel, and WebKit for specific Apple devices. Updates are available for relevant device models. … Read more
December 11, 2023 at 01:45PM Summary: Apple has addressed various security issues with improved redaction, memory handling, and logic checks in macOS Ventura. The updates aim to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive user data across products like Accounts, AppleEvents, CoreServices, and more. Additionally, upgrades for specific applications like Vim and ncurses are available to mitigate … Read more
December 11, 2023 at 01:45PM Several privacy and security issues were addressed in the release of Apple’s software update, including improved data redaction, memory handling, and input validation. These updates apply to various products and address potential impacts such as unauthorized access to sensitive data, arbitrary code execution, and denial-of-service. Update is available for Apple … Read more