A Brief Weekly Review of Top Stories that Dominated the Cyberworld

The outgoing week saw a mix of events in the cyberworld, including a recent patched Android bug being exploited in the wild, and a remote code execution patched in Apache OFBiz. But an event that brought shock waves in the realm of security landscape was social media giant Facebook’s failure to derail a $15b privacy suit.

Here’s a brief synopsis of the key developments of the week that went by.

Facebook Failed in Effort to Derail $15 Bn Privacy Suit

The US Supreme Court declined to consider an appeal by social media titan Facebook that would have upset a $15 billion lawsuit over whether it illegally tracked users almost ten years ago.

The country’s top court issued an order rejecting a request by the top social network to review a California federal court’s decision to allow the lawsuit accusing Facebook of breaching wiretap laws.

Recently Fixed Android Bug Exploited in Attacks

Search engine behemoth Google warned Android users that a newly fixed flaw had been exploited in attacks.

Tracked as CVE-2020-11261, the vulnerability was patched by Google with the Android security updates released in January 2021.

The bug was a high-severity improper input validation issue impacting a display/graphics element from Qualcomm. The flaw, which affects a long raft of chipsets, was reported to Qualcomm through Google in July 2020.