PT-2026-86382

BookWyrm through 0.9.1 fails to validate user visibility permissions in the status edit endpoint, allowing authenticated attackers to read followers-only and direct-message reviews by enumerating sequential status IDs. Attackers can access the raw content of restricted statuses through the edit...

PT-2026-86400

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions NetBox versions prior to 4.7.1 Description Authenticated users with view permissions can access private records of all users due to improper scoping of querysets. This issue affects the REST and GraphQL API endpoints for Notifications,...

Security Vulnerability in a Voting System

It's a vulnerability that allows someone to recover the order of ballots cast, newly exploited with AI tools. Nearly four years since the original vulnerability was disclosed, I was still able to use it to analyze voter behavior in Georgia one of the 21 states that uses affected scanners in the...

Understanding the Privacy-Preserving Potential of HTTP/2 against Webpage Fingerprinting

Website fingerprinting WF attacks can infer which webpage a user visits from encrypted HTTPS traffic alone, compromising privacy even without decryption. WF defenses commonly shape traffic through noise, padding, delays, or flow splitting, yet they are most often studied from the perspective of...

Conformal Prediction for Offensive Security

Despite its introduction more than a quarter century ago, Conformal Prediction CP has seen surprisingly few applications to the cyber security world thus far. In particular, we observe that, while CP has been employed as a defensive measure in many recent works, its use for carrying out attacks...

Your phone or computer may soon ask how old you are

First, the good news: If you use a Linux-based operating system, you may not be asked your age in a few months. The bad news is that Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android users in California will be. California has passed a law that requires a range of operating systems to start collecting your age wh...

Security and Privacy in the Musical Metaverse: Threat Analysis and Design Implications

The Musical Metaverse MM introduces immersive, real-time environments for collaborative musical interaction, characterized by ultra-low-latency constraints, continuous multimodal data streams, and heterogeneous devices. These properties create a distinctive security and privacy landscape that...

Privacy, Robustness, and Fairness Trade-Offs in Federated Intrusion Detection: Geometric Indistinguishability at the Aggregation Interface

Federated learning enables privacy-conscious collaboration for network intrusion detection without centralizing sensitive traffic data, yet its deployment in operational environments must simultaneously satisfy three competing requirements: formal differential privacy guaranties, tolerance to...

Your DNS Is Hiding in HTTPS — This Is Why It Matters

Discover why unmanaged DNS over HTTPS DoH creates security visibility gaps and how a controlled DoH strategy restores visibility without compromising privacy...

Wireless Routers as Motion Detectors

Comcast has added motion detection as a feature to its wireless routers: The feature sends push notifications to users when motion is detected near a connected device, such as a TV or printer. It has different settings for when people are home, asleep, or away. The Xfinity app also lets users see...

Data Compromise component Confidential Data Access

The vulnerability of the Privacy component in Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge is related to a lack of data security mechanisms. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker, operating remotely, to gain access to confidential data...

Hearing the Whispers: Black-Box Membership Inference Attacks on Finetuned TTS Models

Text-to-Speech TTS foundation models are increasingly fine-tuned on private datasets to synthesize highly personalized voices, introducing severe privacy risks by exposing both biometric identities and sensitive speech content. Existing black-box membership inference attacks MIAs follow a two-sta...

zen-desktop v0.25.1

Zen: Your Comprehensive Ad-Blocker and Privacy Guard There is, simply, no way, to ignore privacy. Because a citizenry’s freedoms are interdependent, to surrender your own privacy is really to surrender everyone’s. Edward Snowden, Permanent Record Website • Mastodon • Bluesky • Discord •...

watermarks-remover v0.5.0

| | | || | | |/ |/| || |/ |/ |/ | |/| | | | | | |/ ||| | | | | | \ | | | | | \ | \ | \ | | | || / | | \ watermarks-remover Agent skill + stdlib Python service to strip multi-vendor AI provenance marks from text and files — for privacy and hygiene on content you own. The skill is a thin client:...

Android 17 Adds OS-Wide ECH to Hide Website Visits From Network Providers

Google on Thursday announced new network security protections in Android 17 to bolster connection privacy, address cellular vulnerabilities, and safeguard the privacy of users' home networks. Topping the list is support for Encrypted Client Hello ECH, a privacy standard that prevents networks fro...

A Georgia Cop Used Flock to Track 2 Other Cops: His Ex and Her Friend

After an affair with a fellow police officer ended, a Georgia cop used Flock to track her movements—and those of a man whose vehicle often showed up near hers, internal investigation records show...

Flock wants privacy to meet surveillance halfway

Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley says the United States needs a “compromise” between privacy and public safety. It's a neat phrase, except I don’t like to see “compromise” and “privacy” that close together. “When people talk about just one of these, privacy or safety, they’re prioritizing the wro...

Popular school apps may be sharing student data with advertisers

A two-year investigation into educational technology EdTech apps used by Utah schools found that many were collecting and sharing student data in ways that appeared inconsistent with their privacy commitments. EdTech is a massive commercial industry and some argue that it functions much like...

CVE-2026-16984

The Privacy Policy Generator, Terms & Conditions, GDPR, CCPA, Cookie Policy & Disclaimer Templates WordPress plugin before 3.7.1 does not include an authorization check on a REST route that returns stored account data, allowing unauthenticated visitors to retrieve the connected service's API secr...

EUVD-2026-66271

The Privacy Policy Generator, Terms & Conditions, GDPR, CCPA, Cookie Policy & Disclaimer Templates WordPress plugin before 3.7.1 does not include an authorization check on a REST route that returns stored account data, allowing unauthenticated visitors to retrieve the connected service's API secr...