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Not so fast, said the ICO, which pointed out that the plans to share data breached the UK’s Data Protection Act. This tussle between Facebook and the UK’s ICO stretches back to 2016, when WhatsApp, which was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for $19bn, said it was updating its privacy policy so that it could share data with its new parent company. This means that Facebook can’t make use of WhatsApp user data as it had wanted to in order to “offer better friend suggestions and show you more relevant ads.” Meanwhile, there was good news on Wednesday for British users of Facebook and WhatsApp when the UK’s data protection authority, the Information Commissioner’s Office, said that it had finally reached an agreement with Facebook and WhatsApp over how they exchange user data. Facebook and WhatsApp concede to data regulator

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Samba has posted a workaround that also gives advice on how to check for any unauthorized password changes that have been made, and then urges admins to upgrade or patch their installations as soon as possible. That’s because, according to the advisory, “the LDAP server incorrectly validates certain LDAP password modifications against the ‘Change Password’ privilege, but then performs a password reset option.” The advisory warns that the vulnerability means that “authenticated users can change other users’ password” in any version of the software stack since then. The hole – which Samba fixed with a patch this past Tuesday – affects all versions of Samba from version 4.0 onwards, or in other words, all versions of the software since December 2011.

The vulnerability means that if you have a Samba 4 LDAP server set up as an Active Directory domain controller, any authenticated user can overwrite any other user’s password – including the admin passwords.

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Weekly security roundup week of March 12th Samba admins urged to patchĪn important vulnerability that came to light this past week is one in the venerable Samba open-source networking stack – and if you’re a Samba admin, you need to update now. A vulnerability and a victory for data protection authorities are a good reminder about what can happen when data isn’t kept safe.