CVE-2022-48652 ice: Fix crash by keep old cfg when update TCs more than queues

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ice: Fix crash by keep old cfg when update TCs more than queues There are problems if allocated queues less than Traffic Classes. Commit a632b2a4c920 "ice: ethtool: Prohibit improper channel config for DCB" already disallow setti...

School Employee Allegedly Framed a Principal With Racist Deepfake Rant

Plus: Google holds off on killing cookies, Samourai Wallet founders get arrested, and GM stops driver surveillance program...

Feds Bust Privacy-Centric Samourai Wallet Over BTC Money Laundering

By Waqas The official website of Samourai Wallet has been seized, while its official app on the Apple Store and Google Play has been removed. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Feds Bust Privacy-Centric Samourai Wallet Over BTC Money Laundering...

Long Article on GM Spying on Its Cars’ Drivers

Kashmir Hill has a really good article on how GM tricked its drivers into letting it spy on them--and then sold that data to insurance companies...

Ring agrees to pay $5.6 million after cameras were used to spy on customers

Amazons Ring has settled with the Federal Trade Commission FTC over charges that the company allowed employees and contractors to access customers private videos, and failed to implement security protections which enabled hackers to take control of customers’ accounts, cameras, and videos. The FT...

DOJ Arrests Founders of Crypto Mixer Samourai for $2 Billion in Illegal Transactions

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ on Wednesday announced the arrest of two co-founders of a cryptocurrency mixer called Samourai and seized the service for allegedly facilitating over $2 billion in illegal transactions and for laundering more than $100 million in criminal proceeds. To that end,...

Google Postpones Third-Party Cookie Deprecation Amid U.K. Regulatory Scrutiny

Google has once again pushed its plans to deprecate third-party tracking cookies in its Chrome web browser as it works to address outstanding competition concerns from U.K. regulators over its Privacy Sandbox initiative. The tech giant said it's working closely with the U.K. Competition and Marke...

Dan Solove on Privacy Regulation

Law professor Dan Solove has a new article on privacy regulation. In his email to me, he writes: "I’ve been pondering privacy consent for more than a decade, and I think I finally made a breakthrough with this article." His mini-abstract: In this Article I argue that most of the time, privacy...

CISO Perspectives on Complying with Cybersecurity Regulations

Compliance requirements are meant to increase cybersecurity transparency and accountability. As cyber threats increase, so do the number of compliance frameworks and the specificity of the security controls, policies, and activities they include. For CISOs and their teams, that means compliance i...

Police Chiefs Call for Solutions to Access Encrypted Data in Serious Crime Cases

European Police Chiefs said that the complementary partnership between law enforcement agencies and the technology industry is at risk due to end-to-end encryption E2EE. They called on the industry and governments to take urgent action to ensure public safety across social media platforms. "Priva...

Unmasking the True Cost of Cyberattacks: Beyond Ransom and Recovery

Cybersecurity breaches can be devastating for both individuals and businesses alike. While many people tend to focus on understanding how and why they were targeted by such breaches, there's a larger, more pressing question: What is the true financial impact of a cyberattack? According to researc...

CVE-2024-28627

Summary: CVE-2024-28627 affects Flipsnack (version 18/03/2024) and enables a local attacker to obtain sensitive information via the reader.gz.js file. The available documents do not provide deeper root-cause details beyond this file-based exposure; no exploit vectors or in-the-wild activity are d...

The Next US President Will Have Troubling New Surveillance Powers

Over the weekend, President Joe Biden signed legislation not only reauthorizing a major FISA spy program but expanding it in ways that could have major implications for privacy rights in the US...

Picking fights and gaining rights, with Justin Brookman: Lock and Code S05E09

This week on the Lock and Code podcast… Our Lock and Code host, David Ruiz, has a bit of an apology to make: “Sorry for all the depressing episodes.” When the Lock and Code podcast explored online harassment and abuse this year, our guest provided several guidelines and tips for individuals to lo...

CVE-2023-38291

An issue was discovered in a third-party component related to ro.boot.wifimacaddr, shipped on devices from multiple device manufacturers. Various software builds for the following TCL devices 30Z and 10L and Motorola devices Moto G Pure and Moto G Power leak the Wi-Fi MAC address to a system...

CVE-2024-29029

Memos: CVE-2024-29029 describes an SSRF flaw at the /o/get/image endpoint in memos 0.13.2 that allows unauthenticated users to enumerate the internal network and retrieve images. The response from the image request is echoed into the current server response, enabling a reflected XSS. The vulnerab...

CVE-2024-29029 memos vulnerable to an SSRF in /o/get/image

memos is a privacy-first, lightweight note-taking service. In memos 0.13.2, an SSRF vulnerability exists at the /o/get/image that allows unauthenticated users to enumerate the internal network and retrieve images. The response from the image request is then copied into the response of the current...

CVE-2024-29028 memos vulnerable to an SSRF in /o/get/httpmeta

memos is a privacy-first, lightweight note-taking service. In memos 0.13.2, an SSRF vulnerability exists at the /o/get/httpmeta that allows unauthenticated users to enumerate the internal network and receive limited html values in json form. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.16.1...

Mental health company Cerebral failed to protect sensitive personal data, must pay $7 million

The Federal Trade Commission FTC has reached a settlement with online mental health services company Cerebral after the company was charged with failing to secure and protect sensitive health data. Cerebral has agreed to an order that will restrict how the company can use or disclose sensitive...

Should you share your location with your partner?

Every relationship has its disagreements. Who takes out the trash and washes the dishes? Who plans the meals and writes out the grocery list? And when is it okay to start tracking one another’s location? Location sharing is becoming the norm between romantic partners—50% of people valued location...