A Major Privacy Win, a Vault 7 Indictment, and More Security News This Week
Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2018 13:30:35 +0000
A good week for privacy, an alleged leaker indicted, and more security news this week.
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Supreme Court: Your digital location is protected by the Constitution
Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 12:15:00 -0700
The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that access to historical cell-site records of a person’s location based on their mobile phone will require law enforcement to obtain a warrant before searching a person’s historical location records.
This is the first time the high court has ruled on whether a phone subscriber has a legitimate expectation of privacy regarding a telephone company’s records of their cellphone location data, according to Aloke Chakravarty, a partner in the Denver-based law firm of Snell & Wilmer.
“This is a landmark case for privacy, and how the court will deal with emerging technologies going forward,” Chakravarty said via email. “It creates a new lens through which to view a government’s ability to obtain third-party records where a criminal defendant neither possesses the records, doesn’t have a property interest in them, may not even know they exist, and he cannot personally even access them.”
Bill Could Give Californians Unprecedented Control Over Data
Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 18:08:07 +0000
Lawmakers in California have introduced a sweeping privacy bill that could reign in the power of their Silicon Valley neighbors.
Read MoreCarpenter v. United States Decision Strengthens Digital Privacy
Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 16:26:37 +0000
Thanks to Carpenter v. United States, the government will now generally need a warrant to obtain your cell site location information.
Read MoreChina Escalates Hacks Against the US as Trade Tensions Rise
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 11:00:00 +0000
A hacking truce between China and the US doesn’t address government espionage operations, a workaround both countries exploit.
Read MoreTippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of June 18, 2018
Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 13:51:39 +0000
As I pull together the list of zero-day filters for this blog, I see all types of vulnerabilities from various vendors. My interest is always piqued when I see a vulnerability affecting a security company. The Zero Day Initiative’s (ZDI) interest was also piqued when the researcher Pagefault submitted a Bitdefender vulnerability to the ZDI…
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Read MoreBig Win10 1709 patch reinforces twice-a-month patching pace but, oddly, nothing new for 1803
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 05:36:00 -0700
Microsoft’s Windows 10 patching pace is so fast at this point that one Patch Tuesday doesn’t cover all the bases. Instead, we’re seeing one massive Cumulative Update on Patch Tuesday, and a second — typically large — grab bag of patches later in the month.
You have to wonder what’s happening, though, when Microsoft can deliver its second bundle of patches for 1709, 1703 and 1607 before the second patch for the latest version, 1803, sees light of day.
The Win10 patches
KB 4284822 for Win10 1709
Apple pushes privacy theme in Safari for iOS 12, 'Mojave'
Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 03:23:00 -0700
Apple upgrades its Safari browser on macOS and iOS just once a year, making the refresh more strategic than most of its rivals, notably Google, which last year had eight separate opportunities to add features or functionality to Chrome.
The next Safari, which will be bundled with macOS 10.14 ‘Mojave’ and iOS 12, and offered as a separate download for those who stick with macOS High Sierra (10.13) and Sierra (10.12), thus must make its enhancements count.
On the security and privacy side, Safari tries its hardest to build a case. Here are the important ways Apple’s browser – which shed user share on both the desktop and on mobile over the past year – has staked its reputation for the next 12 months.