2018-06-29 | Hacktivity highlights, New CA privacy law, and Brave + Tor FTW

Friday, June 29

HACKTIVITY HIGHLIGHTS

• Subdomain takeover on svcgatewayus.starbucks.com [54 upvotes] - $2,000 bounty for this report to Starbucks by @0xpatrik.

• Improper session handling on web browsers [14 upvotes] - $560 bounty for this report to Twitter by @arjuniet.

• Nametests Facebook quiz app leaked 120 million users data. Inti De Ceukelaire found and reported the issue to Facebook, awarded an $8,000 bounty under their data abuse bug bounty program.

• Google CTF 2018 Quals Web Challenge - gCalc by Orange Tsai. Shoutout to Aaron Costello’s HackerOne bug report #199779

• SQL injection finding in popular India sports company writeup by @logicbomb

TWEET OF THE DAY

• Ticketmaster had embedded a chatbot (by Inbenta) on their payment pages. Attackers found a vulnerability from the Javascript code, and used that to extract customer's payment information as they were paying for tickets. - @mikko

OTHER NEWS

• New California state privacy law passed. Goes into effect January 2020. Not as comprehensive on GDPR but it will make it easier for consumers to sue companies after a data breach

• Adidas warned users of breach on adidas.com/US

• Brave browser adds private tabs integration in collaboration with Tor

• Dsopas created a search tool to help bug hunters grab public program data

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