Is your phone listening to you? (Lock and Code S06E07)

This week on the Lock and Code podcast … It has probably happened to you before. You and a friend are talking —not texting, not DMing, not FaceTiming—but talking , physically face-to-face, about, say, an upcoming vacation, a new music festival, or a job offer you just got. And then, that same wee...

DIRNSA Fired

In "Secrets and Lies" 2000, I wrote: It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state. It's something a bunch of us were saying at the time, in reference to the vast NSA's surveillance capabilities. I have been thinking of that quote a lot as I read ne...

Flaw in Verizon call record requests put millions of Americans at risk

Security researcher Evan Connelly discovered an enormous flaw affecting one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world that could allow any single person to view the recent incoming call log for potentially any Verizon phone number. "In short, anyone could lookup data for anyone,"...

Popular VPNs are routing traffic via Chinese companies, including one with link to military

Up to one in five of the most popular mobile VPNs for iOS last year are owned by Chinese companies that do their best to hide the fact. In at least one case, the owner is on a US blacklist. That's according to a report from the non-profit Tech Transparency Project TTP, who investigated the top 10...

Location, name, and photos of random kids shown to parents in child tracker mix up

Not one but several worried parents that tracked their children by using T-Mobile tracking devices suddenly found that they were looking at the location of random other children. And could not locate their own. T-Mobile sells a small GPS tracker called SyncUP, which can be used to track, among...

USN-7412-1 gnupg2 vulnerability

It was discovered that GnuPG incorrectly handled importing keys with certain crafted subkey data. If a user or automated system were tricked into importing a specially crafted key, a remote attacker may prevent users from importing other keys in the future...

CVE-2025-30454

A path handling issue was addressed with improved validation. This issue is fixed in iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4, macOS Sequoia 15.4, macOS Sonoma 14.7.5, tvOS 18.4, watchOS 11.4. A malicious app may be able to access private information...

CVE-2025-24262

A privacy issue was addressed with improved private data redaction for log entries. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.4. A sandboxed app may be able to access sensitive user data in system logs...

CVE-2025-24214

A privacy issue was addressed by not logging contents of text fields. This issue is fixed in iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4, macOS Sequoia 15.4, tvOS 18.4, visionOS 2.4, watchOS 11.4. An app may be able to access sensitive user data...

CVE-2025-24218

A privacy issue was addressed with improved private data redaction for log entries. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.4. An app may be able to access information about a user's contacts...

CVE-2025-24263

A privacy issue was addressed by moving sensitive data to a protected location. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.4. An app may be able to observe unprotected user data...

CVE-2025-30443

A privacy issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.4, macOS Sequoia 15.5, macOS Sonoma 14.7.5, macOS Ventura 13.7.5. An app may be able to access user-sensitive data...

CVE-2025-24095

This issue was addressed with additional entitlement checks. This issue is fixed in iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4, visionOS 2.4. An app may be able to bypass Privacy preferences...

CVE-2025-31188

A race condition was addressed with additional validation. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.4, macOS Sonoma 14.7.5, macOS Ventura 13.7.5. An app may be able to bypass Privacy preferences...

“Nudify” deepfakes stored unprotected online

Yesterday, we told you about how millions of pictures from specialized dating apps had been stored online without any kind of password protection. Now it's the turn of an AI "nudify" service. A researcher, famous for finding unprotected cloud storage buckets, has uncovered an unprotected AWS buck...

Enterprise Gmail Users Can Now Send End-to-End Encrypted Emails to Any Platform

On the 21st birthday of Gmail, Google has announced a major update that allows enterprise users to send end-to-end encrypted E2EE to any user in any email inbox in a few clicks. The feature is rolling out starting today in beta, allowing users to send E2EE emails to Gmail users within an...

CVE-2025-3082 User may override a view's collation and gain unauthorized access to underlying data

A user authorized to access a view may be able to alter the intended collation, allowing them to access to a different or unintended view of underlying data. This issue affects MongoDB Server v5.0 version prior to 5.0.31, MongoDB Server v6.0 version prior to 6.0.20, MongoDB Server v7.0 version...

Private Data Structure Returned From A Public Method

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Private Data Structure Returned From A Public Method. When a user accesses an externally referenced image, the provider of the image may obtain private information about the IP address of that accessing user. Remediation Upgrade...

CVE-2025-29868 Apache Answer: Using externally referenced images can leak user privacy.

Private Data Structure Returned From A Public Method vulnerability in Apache Answer. This issue affects Apache Answer: through 1.4.2. If a user uses an externally referenced image, when a user accesses this image, the provider of the image may obtain private information about the ip address of th...

CVE-2025-29868 Apache Answer: Using externally referenced images can leak user privacy.

Private Data Structure Returned From A Public Method vulnerability in Apache Answer. This issue affects Apache Answer: through 1.4.2. If a user uses an externally referenced image, when a user accesses this image, the provider of the image may obtain private information about the ip address of th...