[SECURITY] Fedora 44 Update: tor-0.4.9.8-1.fc44

The Tor network is a group of volunteer-operated servers that allows people to improve their privacy and security on the Internet. Tor's users employ this network by connecting through a series of virtual tunnels rather than making a direct connection, thus allowing both organizations and...

Local Privacy Laws in a Globalized World

Personal data has emerged as a highly valuable yet sensitive asset that drives business decisions, enables targeted advertising, and generates substantial revenue for companies, while simultaneously facilitating invasive monitoring of users. In recent years, research on digital privacy violations...

MRMMIA: Membership Inference Attacks on Memory in Chat Agents

Membership inference attacks MIAs test whether a target data record belongs to a system's private data, and have become a standard tool to measure privacy leakage in machine learning systems. Prior work has primarily focused on training corpora or retrieval databases. However, MIAs against agent...

A week in security (May 18 – May 24)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Update Chrome now: Critical bugs could let attackers run code Microsoft Defender vulnerabilities are being exploited in the wild TikTok, YouTube, and Roblox face scrutiny, but age gates won’t fix child safety Catch spyware in the act with Windows Webcam Monitoring...

On Reliability of Efficient Membership Inference Vulnerability Evaluation

Membership inference attacks MIAs are popular methods for empirically assessing the leakage of sensitive information in the training data through models or statistics learned from the data. The MIA vulnerability is often evaluated through false positive rate FPR and true positive rate TPR of a...

CyberMaskQA: A Privacy-Aware Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models in Cybersecurity Question Answering

Large language models LLMs are increasingly applied to cybersecurity question answering QA for critical tasks such as incident response and vulnerability analysis. However, real-world operational contexts, including system logs and network configurations, inherently contain sensitive identifiers,...

CVE-2026-39966

TypeBot is a chatbot builder tool. In versions 3.15.2, the getLinkedTypebots API endpoint returns full bot definitions to any authenticated user who references a target bot ID in a Typebot Link block, regardless of workspace ownership, leading to IDOR. The authorization check uses Array.filter wi...

CVE-2026-8679

The AudioIgniter plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in versions up to, and including, 2.0.2. This is due to the handleplaylistendpoint function hooked to templateredirect accepting a user-controlled playlist ID via the audioigniterplaylistid query var or the...

Unlocking Apple's Private Cloud Compute: An Analysis of Privacy-Preserving Artificial Intelligence

Many existing Artificial Intelligence AI solutions on mobile devices rely on an extensive collection of sensitive data, raising privacy concerns and often requiring storage for both context and model improvement. Apple's Private Cloud Compute PCC aims to address this by emphasizing mobile device...

Modernizing User Privacy Preference Measurement through GPPI: A GDPR-Aligned Privacy Preference Item Bank

Privacy measurement instruments e.g., CFIP, IUIPC, PAQ predate GDPR by over a decade and measure privacy concerns, distinct from preferences for regulatory protections e.g., data portability, erasure, automated decision-making rights. This leaves practitioners without tools to assess whether user...

Security, Privacy, and Ethical Risks in OpenClaw

This paper systematically investigates the security, privacy, and ethical risks, as well as the traceability challenges of OpenClaw, a locally executable AI agent system for natural language interaction and real-world task completion. While OpenClaw shows strong potential for personal assistance,...

Catch spyware in the act with Windows Webcam Monitoring

You’re working hard late at night, replying to emails and planning the week ahead. Then suddenly, a PDF file requests access to your camera. Why would a PDF need camera access? Cybercriminals often disguise spyware inside seemingly harmless files and programs. An unexpected request for access to...

Securing the gaming culture of cultures

The Deputy CISO blog series is where Microsoft Deputy Chief Information Security Officers CISOs share their thoughts on what is most important in their respective domains. In this series, you will get practical advice, tactics to start and stop deploying, forward-looking commentary on where the...

Firefox 151 packs big privacy upgrades into a small update

Mozilla has published release notes for Firefox browser version 151.0, and this update includes several genuinely meaningful privacy and security improvements. Three changes stand out in particular: Stronger anti‑fingerprinting Broader protection for local network access More control over private...

Data Brokers’ and AI Firms’ Opt-Out Forms Are Built to Fail, Report Finds

A new study finds AI companies, defense firms, and dating apps are among 38 data collectors allegedly using manipulative design to confuse users while collecting their data...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: uvcvideo: Fixed a memory leak in uvcgpioparse Previously, the unit buffer was allocated before checking the IRQ for privacy-related GPIO signals. If an error occurred, the unit buffer could be leaked. The issue is now...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in gnupg2

A flaw was discovered in the way certificate signatures can be forged using collisions found in the SHA-1 algorithm. Attackers could exploit this weakness to create forged certificate signatures. This issue affects GnuPG versions prior to 2.2.18...

CVE-2026-39309

Trilium Notes is a cross-platform, hierarchical note taking application focused on building large personal knowledge bases. In versions 0.102.1 and prior, the Electron configuration is vulnerable to TCC Bypass via Prompt Spoofing, allowing local attackers to trigger misleading macOS permission...

Auditing Apple'S DifferentialPrivacy.Framework: Implementation Bugs, Misconfigurations, and Practical Risks

Since 2016, Apple has claimed that device analytics collected to improve user experience are protected by differential privacy DP. Apple's DifferentialPrivacy.framework is deployed across its operating systems and handles sensitive signals such as Safari domains, keyboard events, photo attributes...

Trilium Notes 安全漏洞

Trilium Notes is a hierarchical note application developed by Zadam, a personal developer. It focuses on building large personal knowledge bases. Versions of Trilium Notes prior to 0.102.1 contained security vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities stemmed from Electron configurations that could be...