Willchain: Decentralized, Privacy-Preserving, Self-Executing, Digital Wills

This work presents a novel decentralized protocol for digital estate planning that integrates advances distributed computing, and cryptography. The original proof-of-concept was constructed using purely solidity contracts. Since then, we have enhanced the implementation into a layer-1 protocol th...

CVE-2025-49846 wire-ios accidentally logs message contents

wire-ios is an iOS client for the Wire secure messaging application. From Wire iOS 3.111.1 to before 3.124.1, messages that were visible in the view port have been logged to the iOS system logs in clear text. Wire application logs created and managed by the application itself were not affected,...

Catwatchful “child monitoring” app exposes victims’ data

If an app markets itself as being for “child monitoring”, a customer might expect that their data and those of the person you’re monitoring is handled with the utmost care and respect. However, as we've seen many times before, stalkerware which is what monitoring software is known as apps have a...

Vivaldi 7.5: color, clarity, and control

Read this article in español, Deutsch, Français, русский, 日本語, język polski. This update brings both refinement and power. It’s a release shaped by your feedback and driven by our commitment to putting you in full control of your browser. With long-requested colored Tab Stacks, enhanced privacy...

Novel Blockchain-Based Protocols for Electronic Voting and Auctions

Programmable blockchains have long been a hot research topic given their tremendous use in decentralized applications. Smart contracts, using blockchains as their underlying technology, inherit the desired properties such as verifiability, immutability, and transparency, which make it a great sui...

TOR Virtual Network Tunneling Tool 0.4.8.17

Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups to improve their privacy and security on the Internet. It also enables software developers to create new communication tools with built-in privacy features. It provides the foundation for a range of applications that allow...

Facebook wants to look at your entire camera roll for “AI restyling” suggestions, and more

Facebook's pursuit of your personal data continues apace, and now it has a new target: photos on your phone that you haven't shared with it yet. Techcrunch reports that the social media giant is now asking its users to peek at the photos on their phones' camera rolls. In return it will give them...

AT&T to pay compensation to data breach victims. Here’s how to check if you were affected

AT&T is set to pay $177 million to customers affected by two significant data breaches. These breaches exposed sensitive personal information of millions of current and former AT&T customers. For those that have missed the story so far: Back in 2021, an entity named Shiny Hunters a known hacking...

SUSE-SU-2025:20454-1 Security update for gpg2

This update for gpg2 fixes the following issues: Fix regression for the recent malicious subkey DoS fix in CVE-2025-30258. bsc1236931, bsc1239119, CVE-2025-30258...

Security update for gpg2

This update for gpg2 fixes the following issues: Fix regression for the recent malicious subkey DoS fix in CVE-2025-30258. bsc1236931, bsc1239119, CVE-2025-30258 Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST onlineupdate or "zypper patch"...

Facebook's New AI Tool Asks to Upload Your Photos for Story Ideas, Sparking Privacy Concerns

Facebook, the social network platform owned by Meta, is asking for users to upload pictures from their phones to suggest collages, recaps, and other ideas using artificial intelligence AI, including those that have not been directly uploaded to the service. According to TechCrunch, which first...

The Age of Integrity

We need to talk about data integrity. Narrowly, the term refers to ensuring that data isn’t tampered with, either in transit or in storage. Manipulating account balances in bank databases, removing entries from criminal records, and murder by removing notations about allergies from medical record...

Researchers Warn Free VPNs Could Leak US Data to China

Tech Transparency Project warns Chinese-owned VPNs like Turbo VPN and X-VPN remain on Apple and Google app stores, raising national security concerns...

CVE-2025-5526

The BuddyPress Docs WordPress plugin before 2.2.5 lacks proper access controls and allows a logged in user to view and download files belonging to another user...

CVE-2025-5526 BuddyPress Docs < 2.2.5 - Subscriber+ Arbitrary Document Read/Update

The BuddyPress Docs WordPress plugin before 2.2.5 lacks proper access controls and allows a logged in user to view and download files belonging to another user...

Consumer Beware! Exploring Data Brokers' CCPA Compliance

Data brokers collect and sell the personal information of millions of individuals, often without their knowledge or consent. The California Consumer Privacy Act CCPA grants consumers the legal right to request access to, or deletion of, their data. To facilitate these requests, California maintai...

WhatsApp Adds AI-Powered Message Summaries for Faster Chat Previews

Popular messaging platform WhatsApp has added a new artificial intelligence AI-powered feature that leverages its in-house solution Meta AI to summarize unread messages in chats. The feature, called Message Summaries, is currently rolling out in the English language to users in the United States,...

CVE-2025-5275

The Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising with Recurring Donations & More plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the privacy settings fields in all versions up to, and including, 1.8.6.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping...

CVE-2025-5275

CVE-2025-5275 covers a Stored XSS in the WordPress plugin Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising with Recurring Donations & More (versions up to 1.8.6.1). Root cause: insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in privacy settings. Exploitation requires authenticated adm...

Balancing Privacy and Utility in Correlated Data: a Study of Bayesian Differential Privacy

Privacy risks in differentially private DP systems increase significantly when data is correlated, as standard DP metrics often underestimate the resulting privacy leakage, leaving sensitive information vulnerable. Given the ubiquity of dependencies in real-world databases, this oversight poses a...