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Top US Consumer Watchdog Has a Plan to Fight Predatory Data Brokers

A new proposal by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would use a 54-year-old privacy law to impose new oversight of the data broker industry. But first, the agency must survive Elon Musk...

An air fryer, a ring, and a vacuum get brought into a home. What they take out is your data (Lock and Code S05E24)

This week on the Lock and Code podcast… The month, a consumer rights group out of the UK posed a question to the public that they’d likely never considered: Were their air fryers spying on them? By analyzing the associated Android apps for three separate air fryer models from three different...

Temu must respect consumer protection laws, says EU

Temu has been accused of a number of infringements on its platform against European Union EU consumer law. The Consumer Protection Cooperation CPC Network of national consumer authorities and the European Commission teamed up for a coordinated ongoing investigation into Temu and its practices. Th...

kernel: use-after-free in cec_queue_msg_fh

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel. A use-after-free exists in cecqueuemsgfh, related to drivers/media/cec/core/cec-adap.c and drivers/media/cec/core/cec-api.c...

Europol warns about counterfeit goods and the criminals behind them

With the holidays around the bend, many are looking for gifts for their family and friends. And since we somehow decided we want to give more each time, we’re also looking for good deals. But European law enforcement agency Europol issued a warning about buying fake goods. Sure, they are cheaper,...

CVE-2024-45334

Trend Micro Antivirus One versions 3.10.4 and below Consumer is vulnerable to an Arbitrary Configuration Update that could allow unauthorized access to product configurations and functions...

CVE-2024-45334: Improper Access Control

Trend Micro Antivirus One versions 3.10.4 and below Consumer is vulnerable to an Arbitrary Configuration Update that could allow unauthorized access to product configurations and functions...

SUSE CVE-2024-47675

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix use-after-free in bpfuprobemultilinkattach If bpflinkprime fails, bpfuprobemultilinkattach goes to the errorfree label and frees the array of bpfuprobe's without calling bpfuprobeunregister. This leaks bpfuprobe-uprobe a...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47675

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix use-after-free in bpfuprobemultilinkattach If bpflinkprime fails, bpfuprobemultilinkattach goes to the errorfree label and frees the array of bpfuprobe's without calling bpfuprobeunregister. This leaks bpfuprobe-uprobe a...

powerpc/qspinlock: Fix deadlock in MCS queue

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Fake Trading Apps Target Victims Globally via Apple App Store and Google Play

A large-scale fraud campaign leveraged fake trading apps published on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, as well as phishing sites, to defraud victims, per findings from Group-IB. The campaign is part of a consumer investment fraud scheme that's also widely known as pig butchering, in whi...

USN-7007-3 linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15 vulnerabilities

Chenyuan Yang discovered that the CEC driver driver in the Linux kernel contained a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2024-23848 Chenyuan Yang discovered that the USB Gadget subsystem in...

USN-7007-2 linux-ibm-5.15, linux-oracle-5.15 vulnerabilities

Chenyuan Yang discovered that the CEC driver driver in the Linux kernel contained a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2024-23848 Chenyuan Yang discovered that the USB Gadget subsystem in...

“Simply staggering” surveillance conducted by social media and streaming services, FTC finds

The US Federal Trade Commission FTC released a report that examines the data collection and use practices of major social media and video streaming services, finding that—and this will not come as a surprise to our regular readers—the companies engaged in vast surveillance of consumers in order t...

Your Phone Won’t Be the Next Exploding Pager

Thousands of beepers and two-way radios exploded in attacks against Hezbollah, but mainstream consumer devices like smartphones aren’t likely to be weaponized the same way...

USN-7007-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-gkeop-5.15, linux-hwe-5.15, linux-ibm, linux-intel-iotg, linux-intel-iotg-5.15, linux-kvm, linux-nvidia, linux-oracle, linux-raspi vulnerabilities

Chenyuan Yang discovered that the CEC driver driver in the Linux kernel contained a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2024-23848 Chenyuan Yang discovered that the USB Gadget subsystem in...

Authentication Bypass

org.eclipse.edc:transfer-data-plane is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass via the ConsumerPullTransferTokenValidationApiController function. An attacker can bypass the check for token expiration by exploiting the lack of validation for token validity expiry, not-before, issuance date...

CVE-2024-8642 Eclipse EDC: Consumer pull transfer token validation checks not applied

In Eclipse Dataspace Components, from version 0.5.0 and before version 0.9.0, the ConsumerPullTransferTokenValidationApiController does not check for token validity expiry, not-before, issuance date, which can allow an attacker to bypass the check for token expiration. The issue requires to have ...