School Employee Allegedly Framed a Principal With Racist Deepfake Rant

Plus: Google holds off on killing cookies, Samourai Wallet founders get arrested, and GM stops driver surveillance program...

A week in security (April 8 – April 14)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: How to change your Social Security Number Apple warns people of mercenary attacks via threat notification system How to check if your data was exposed in the AT&T breach Microsoft’s April 2024 Patch Tuesday includes two actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities H...

Glassdoor Wants to Know Your Real Name

Anonymous, candid reviews made Glassdoor a powerful place to research potential employers. A policy shift requiring users to privately verify their real names is raising privacy concerns...

Surveillance through Push Notifications

The Washington Post is reporting on the FBIs increasing use of push notification data--"push tokens"--to identify people. The police can request this data from companies like Apple and Google without a warrant. The investigative technique goes back years. Court orders that were issued in 2019 to...

AI Is Scarily Good at Guessing the Location of Random Photos

Wow: To test PIGEONs performance, I gave it five personal photos from a trip I took across America years ago, none of which have been published online. Some photos were snapped in cities, but a few were taken in places nowhere near roads or other easily recognizable landmarks. That didnt seem to...

Fedora 39 : firefox / nss (2023-9de52d46bd)

The remote Fedora 39 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-9de52d46bd advisory. Update NSS to 3.95 Update Firefox to 121.0 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Note th...

AI and Mass Spying

Spying and surveillance are different but related things. If I hired a private detective to spy on you, that detective could hide a bug in your home or car, tap your phone, and listen to what you said. At the end, I would get a report of all the conversations you had and the contents of those...

What Gen Z really cares about when it comes to privacy

It would be easy to think that Gen Z doesn’t care about privacy. They worry less about ad tracking, do little to stem the flow of their private information online, and, as Malwarebytes recently uncovered, monitor one another’s lives far more than other generations. But it isn’t that Gen Z,...

FDA medical IoT cyber device compliance. FD&C 524b

TL;DR FD&C 524b is new FDA legislation for medical cyber device compliance Introduced on March 30th 2023 it is now a firm requirement as of October 1st 2023 It demands provision of complex evidence that manufacturers take security seriously Medical cyber device market There are over 10,000 medica...

Voter data stolen in UK Electoral Commission systems breach

The UK's Electoral Commission has revealed it suffered a compromise which has the potential to expose aspects of registered voters' data. While much of this data may already be public, there are some privacy and safety concerns to consider. First of all, lets take a look at whats been affected. T...

The Need for Trustworthy AI

If you ask Alexa, Amazons voice assistant AI system, whether Amazon is a monopoly, it responds by saying it doesnt know. It doesnt take much to make it lambaste the other tech giants, but its silent about its own corporate parents misdeeds. When Alexa responds in this way, its obvious that it is...

Fake THREADS App Climbs to Number 1 Spot on Apple Store in Europe

By Habiba Rashid Due to privacy concerns, Meta has not yet released the Threads app in EU countries, creating a loophole for criminals to upload fake versions of the app. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Fake THREADS App Climbs to Number 1 Spot on Apple Store in Europe...

Privacy of Printing Services

The Washington Post has an article about popular printing services, and whether or not they read your documents and mine the data when you use them for printing: Ideally, printing services should avoid storing the content of your files, or at least delete daily. Print services should also...

Instagram's Twitter Alternative 'Threads' Launch Halted in Europe Over Privacy Concerns

Instagram Threads, the upcoming Twitter competitor from Meta, will not be launched in the European Union due to privacy concerns, according to Ireland's Data Protection Commission DPC. The development was reported by the Irish Independent, which said the watchdog has been in contact with the soci...

Instagram's Twitter Alternative 'Threads' Launch Halted in Europe Over Privacy Concerns

Instagram Threads, the upcoming Twitter competitor from Meta, will not be launched in the European Union due to privacy concerns, according to Ireland's Data Protection Commission DPC. The development was reported by the Irish Independent, which said the watchdog has been in contact with the soci...

Self-driving cars are a privacy issue, says security expert

Self-driving cars peel off an extra layer from our privacy, says security expert Bruce Schneier. Theoretically, if you know the location of all the closed-circuit television CCTV cameras in a neighborhood, you might be able to move around without one of them ever catching a glimpse of your face...

A week in security (June 12 - 18)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: MOVEit discloses THIRD critical vulnerability Fake security researchers push malware files on GitHub LockBit ransomware advisory from CISA provides interesting insights Microsoft fixes six critical vulnerabilities in June Patch Tuesday Update Chrome now! Google fix...

Edge browser feature sends images you view back to Microsoft

A relatively new service provided by Microsofts browser Edge sends images you've viewed online back to Microsoft. A new feature labelled Enhance images in Microsoft Edge has raised some privacy concerns. The feature is designed to upscale low resolution images, making them sharper, and improving...

The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens

A newly declassified report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence reveals that the federal government is buying troves of data about Americans...

WhosHere Plus. Trilateration vulnerability

WhosHere Plus is a dating app that uses GPS data to recommend users near to each other, based on similar interests. PTP constantly researches the state of privacy and security in apps that use GPS data, because the consequences of poor security and privacy are alarming: Tracking and snooping on a...