Noisy Networks, Nosy Neighbors: Inferring Privacy Invasive Information from Encrypted Wireless Traffic

This thesis explores the extent to which passive observation of wireless traffic in a smart home environment can be used to infer privacy-invasive information about its inhabitants. Using a setup that mimics the capabilities of a nosy neighbor in an adjacent flat, we analyze raw 802.11 packets an...

Google and Flo to pay $56 million after misusing users’ health data

Popular period-tracking app Flo Health shared users’ intimate health data—such as menstrual cycles and fertility information—with Google and Meta, allegedly for targeted advertising purposes, according to multiple class-action lawsuits filed in the US and Canada. Between 2016 and 2019, the...

Digital Threat Modeling Under Authoritarianism

Today's world requires us to make complex and nuanced decisions about our digital security. Evaluating when to use a secure messaging app like Signal or WhatsApp, which passwords to store on your smartphone, or what to share on social media requires us to assess risks and make judgments...

LinkedIn will use your data to train its AI unless you opt out now

LinkedIn plans to share user data with Microsoft and its affiliates for AI training. Framed as "legitimate interest", it won't ask for your permission—instead you'll have to opt out before the deadline. Microsoft has made major investments in ChatGPT’s creator OpenAI, and as we know, the more dat...

TikTok is misusing kids’ data, says privacy watchdog

A group of privacy commissioners in Canada have accused TikTok of scooping up information about hundreds of thousands of children who shouldn't have been on the platform. The Chinese social media giant is also accused of collecting data on Canadian users without properly explaining what it does...

Ensure That GPG Verification Is Configured for the Yum Repositories

Software packages may be tampered with by attackers during network transmission or local storage. If the integrity verification is not performed on the software packages, software tampered with by attackers may be installed. As a result, the server or even the entire network cluster is attacked. ...

Police using drones to read your license plates, warns EFF

Police are using drones as flying automated license plate readers ALPRs, according to a report by the Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF. And where there is a market, a provider will jump in. Or was it the other way around this time? Flock Safety, for example, recently told a group of potential l...

Can Federated Learning Safeguard Private Data in LLM Training? Vulnerabilities, Attacks, and Defense Evaluation

Fine-tuning large language models LLMs with local data is a widely adopted approach for organizations seeking to adapt LLMs to their specific domains. Given the shared characteristics in data across different organizations, the idea of collaboratively fine-tuning an LLM using data from multiple...

RAG Security and Privacy: Formalizing the Threat Model and Attack Surface

Retrieval-Augmented Generation RAG is an emerging approach in natural language processing that combines large language models LLMs with external document retrieval to produce more accurate and grounded responses. While RAG has shown strong potential in reducing hallucinations and improving factua...

Malwarebytes for Teams now includes VPN

Running a small business today can hardly be done from a single device, a single location, or a single network. Staying cybersecure is quite the same. To extend the security and privacy of small business owners, no matter where you are, Malwarebytes for Teams now includes personal VPN access, for...

Can you disappear online? (Lock and Code S06E19)

This week on the Lock and Code podcast There's more about you online than you know. The company Acxiom, for example, has probably determined whether you’re a heavy drinker, or if you're overweight, or if you smoke or all three. The same company has also probably estimated—to the exact dollar—the...

CVE-2025-10184 OnePlus OxygenOS Telephony provider permission bypass

The vulnerability allows any application installed on the device to read SMS/MMS data and metadata from the system-provided Telephony provider without permission, user interaction, or consent. The user is also not notified that SMS data is being accessed. This could lead to sensitive information...

Security Evaluation of Android Apps in Budget African Mobile Devices

Android's open-source nature facilitates widespread smartphone accessibility, particularly in price-sensitive markets. System and vendor applications that come pre-installed on budget Android devices frequently operate with elevated privileges, yet they receive limited independent examination. To...

Towards Adapting Federated and Quantum Machine Learning for Network Intrusion Detection: a Survey

This survey explores the integration of Federated Learning FL with Network Intrusion Detection Systems NIDS, with particular emphasis on deep learning and quantum machine learning approaches. FL enables collaborative model training across distributed devices while preserving data privacy-a critic...

CVE-2025-58026

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation 'Cross-site Scripting' vulnerability in termageddon Termageddon: Cookie Consent & Privacy Compliance termageddon-usercentrics allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Termageddon: Cookie Consent & Privacy Compliance: from n/a through = 1.8.1...

WordPress Termageddon: Cookie Consent & Privacy Compliance Plugin <= 1.8.1 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability

Cross Site Scripting XSS Vulnerability discovered by zaim in WordPress Plugin Termageddon: Cookie Consent & Privacy Compliance versions = 1.8.1...

CVE-2025-58026 WordPress Termageddon: Cookie Consent & Privacy Compliance Plugin <= 1.8.1 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation 'Cross-site Scripting' vulnerability in termageddon Termageddon: Cookie Consent & Privacy Compliance termageddon-usercentrics allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Termageddon: Cookie Consent & Privacy Compliance: from n/a through = 1.8.1...

CVE-2025-58026 WordPress Termageddon: Cookie Consent & Privacy Compliance Plugin <= 1.8.1 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation 'Cross-site Scripting' vulnerability in termageddon Termageddon: Cookie Consent & Privacy Compliance termageddon-usercentrics allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Termageddon: Cookie Consent & Privacy Compliance: from n/a through = 1.8.1...

CVE-2025-58026

CVE-2025-58026 is an XSS vulnerability in Termageddon: Cookie Consent & Privacy Compliance. The issue affects Termageddon: Cookie Consent & Privacy Compliance versions from n/a to 1.8.1 and is characterized as Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) due to improper neutralization of input during web pa...

PT-2025-38875

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Termageddon versions through 1.8.1 Description The software contains a flaw related to improper input handling during web page creation, which can lead to Cross-site Scripting XSS. This specific instance is a Stored XSS issue. Recommendations...