FTC Slams Avast with $16.5 Million Fine for Selling Users' Browsing Data

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission FTC has hit antivirus vendor Avast with a $16.5 million fine over charges that the firm sold users' browsing data to advertisers after claiming its products would block online tracking. In addition, the company has been banned from selling or licensing any web...

CVE-2024-0240 Silicon Labs EFR32 Bluetooth stack denial of service when sending notifications to multiple clients

A memory leak in the Silicon Labs' Bluetooth stack for EFR32 products may cause memory to be exhausted when sending notifications to multiple clients, this results in all Bluetooth operations, such as advertising and scanning, to stop...

CVE-2024-0240 Silicon Labs EFR32 Bluetooth stack denial of service when sending notifications to multiple clients

A memory leak in the Silicon Labs' Bluetooth stack for EFR32 products may cause memory to be exhausted when sending notifications to multiple clients, this results in all Bluetooth operations, such as advertising and scanning, to stop...

PT-2024-15406 · Silicon · Bluetooth Stack For Efr32

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Silicon Labs' Bluetooth stack for EFR32 products affected versions not specified Description: A memory leak in the Bluetooth stack may cause memory to be exhausted when sending notifications to multiple clients, resulting in all Bluetooth...

“You have blood on your hands.” Senate Committee calls for action by social media giants to protect children online

In an unusually emotional and unified setting, the Senate Judiciary Committee found common ground for the need to protect children online yesterday. On January 31, 2024, the CEOs of the most widely used social media platforms appeared before the Committee. Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Xs Linda...

Chatbots and Human Conversation

For most of history, communicating with a computer has not been like communicating with a person. In their earliest years, computers required carefully constructed instructions, delivered through punch cards; then came a command-line interface, followed by menus and options and text boxes. If you...

FTC Bans InMarket for Selling Precise User Location Without Consent

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission FTC is continuing to clamp down on data brokers by prohibiting InMarket Media from selling or licensing precise location data. The settlement is part of allegations that the Texas-based company did not inform or seek consent from consumers before using their...

Happy 14th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

KrebsOnSecurity celebrates its 14th year of existence today! I promised myself this post wouldnt devolve into yet another Cybersecurity Year in Review. Nor do I wish to hold forth about whatever cyber horrors may await us in 2024. But I do want to thank you all for your continued readership,...

Microsoft Takes Legal Action to Crack Down on Storm-1152's Cybercrime Network

Microsoft on Wednesday said it obtained a court order to seize infrastructure set up by a group called Storm-1152 that peddled roughly 750 million fraudulent Microsoft accounts and tools through a network of bogus websites and social media pages to other criminal actors, netting them millions of...

CVE-2023-4424

CVE-2023-4424 affects Zephyr OS Bluetooth: a malicious BLE device can trigger a buffer overflow by sending malformed advertising packets, potentially causing DoS or remote code execution on the victim device. The issue is linked to the HCI Bluetooth controller path (le_advertising_report) and ste...

CVE-2023-4424

An malicious BLE device can cause buffer overflow by sending malformed advertising packet BLE device using Zephyr OS, leading to DoS or potential RCE on the victim BLE device...

CVE-2023-4424 bt: hci: DoS and possible RCE

An malicious BLE device can cause buffer overflow by sending malformed advertising packet BLE device using Zephyr OS, leading to DoS or potential RCE on the victim BLE device...

CVE-2023-4424 bt: hci: DoS and possible RCE

An malicious BLE device can cause buffer overflow by sending malformed advertising packet BLE device using Zephyr OS, leading to DoS or potential RCE on the victim BLE device...

PT-2023-29163

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Zephyr OS affected versions not specified Description The issue allows a malicious BLE device to cause a buffer overflow by sending a malformed advertising packet to a BLE device using Zephyr OS. This can lead to a Denial of Service DoS or...

What Is Programmatic Advertising And How To Use It

By Owais Sultan Programmatic is an advertising format on third-party resources, where placement is done automatically through special advertising platforms where… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: What Is Programmatic Advertising And How To Use It...

AI and US Election Rules

If an AI breaks the rules for you, does that count as breaking the rules? This is the essential question being taken up by the Federal Election Commission this month, and public input is needed to curtail the potential for AI to take US campaigns even more off the rails. At issue is whether...

merkur-werbemittel.de Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3731927

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

CVE-2023-4530

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command 'SQL Injection' vulnerability in Turna Advertising Administration Panel allows SQL Injection. This issue affects Advertising Administration Panel: before 1.1...

CVE-2023-4530

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command 'SQL Injection' vulnerability in Turna Advertising Administration Panel allows SQL Injection. This issue affects Advertising Administration Panel: before 1.1...

CVE-2023-4530

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command 'SQL Injection' vulnerability in Turna Advertising Administration Panel allows SQL Injection.This issue affects Advertising Administration Panel: before 1.1...