AI and Mass Spying

Spying and surveillance are different but related things. If I hired a private detective to spy on you, that detective could hide a bug in your home or car, tap your phone, and listen to what you said. At the end, I would get a report of all the conversations you had and the contents of those...

WhatsApp's New Secret Code Feature Lets Users Protect Private Chats with Password

Meta-owned WhatsApp has launched a new Secret Code feature to help users protect sensitive conversations with a custom password on the messaging platform. The feature has been described as an "additional way to protect those chats and make them harder to find if someone has access to your phone o...

Authorization

Missing Authorization vulnerability in WPOmnia KB Support – WordPress Help Desk and Knowledge Base allows Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs. Users with a role as low as a subscriber can view other customers.This issue affects KB Support – WordPress Help Desk and Knowledge...

Meta sued over forcing users to pay to stop tracking

Meta is required to get users’ consent in Europe in order to show them targeted ads. For this reason, Meta has to provide European users with a way to opt out of behavioral advertising or face fines totalling $100,000 a day. Behavioral advertising are ads tailored to someone’s browsing habits and...

Information Disclosure

github.com/mattermost/mattermost library is vulnerable to Information Disclosure. The vulnerability is due to Mattermost fails to properly validate the "Show Full Name" option in a few endpoints in Mattermost Boards, This allowing a member to get the full name of another user even if the Show Ful...

m-privacy TightGate-Pro Code Execution / Insecure Permissions

SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab Security Advisory ======================================================================= title: Multiple Vulnerabilities product: m-privacy TightGate-Pro vulnerable version: Rolling Release, servers with the following package versions are vulnerable: tightgatevnc...

CVE-2023-45223

Mattermost fails to properly validate the "Show Full Name" option in a few endpoints in Mattermost Boards, allowing a member to get the full name of another user even if the Show Full Name option was disabled...

CVE-2023-45223 Users full name disclosure through Mattermost Boards with Show Full Name Option disabled

Mattermost fails to properly validate the "Show Full Name" option in a few endpoints in Mattermost Boards, allowing a member to get the full name of another user even if the Show Full Name option was disabled...

Private and Secure Web Search Engines: DuckDuckGo, Brave, Kagi, Startpage

What you look for online is up to you—just make sure no one else is taking a peek...

Chrome pushes forward with plans to limit ad blockers in the future

Google has announced it will shut down Manifest V2 in June 2024 and move on to Manifest V3, the latest version of its Chrome extension specification that has faced criticism for putting limits on ad blockers. Roughly said, Manifest V2 and V3 are the rules that browser extension developers have to...

CVE-2023-47824

Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability in wpWax Legal Pages – Privacy Policy, Terms & Conditions, GDPR, CCPA, and Cookie Notice Generator plugin = 1.3.8 versions...

CVE-2023-47824

Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability in wpWax Legal Pages – Privacy Policy, Terms & Conditions, GDPR, CCPA, and Cookie Notice Generator plugin = 1.3.8 versions...

Cross site request forgery (csrf)

Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability in wpWax Legal Pages – Privacy Policy, Terms & Conditions, GDPR, CCPA, and Cookie Notice Generator plugin = 1.3.8 versions...

CVE-2023-47251

In mprivacy-tools before 2.0.406g in m-privacy TightGate-Pro Server, a Directory Traversal in the print function of the VNC service allows authenticated attackers with access to a VNC session to automatically transfer malicious PDF documents by moving them into the .spool directory, and then...

CVE-2023-47250

In mprivacy-tools before 2.0.406g in m-privacy TightGate-Pro Server, broken Access Control on X11 server sockets allows authenticated attackers with access to a VNC session to access the X11 desktops of other users by specifying their DISPLAY ID. This allows complete control of their desktop,...

Biden's AI Executive Order: What it says, and what it means for security teams

The 2023 Executive Order has far-reaching implications for companies relying on AI. Here is a breakdown of it through the lens of a Security Engineer, including an analysis, a summary of the impact on AI safety and privacy protection, and a look at how the order will affect security teams...

Explained: Privacy washing

Question: Who said the sentence below? “Privacy is at the heart of everything we do.” Answer: Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Alphabet and its largest subsidiary Google. And if you look at the recent actions Google has announced, you’d be tempted to take his word for it: An initiative to let Chrome hid...

CVE-2023-47251

In mprivacy-tools before 2.0.406g in m-privacy TightGate-Pro Server, a Directory Traversal in the print function of the VNC service allows authenticated attackers with access to a VNC session to automatically transfer malicious PDF documents by moving them into the .spool directory, and then...

m-privacy TightGate-Pro Server Security Vulnerability

The m-privacy TightGate-Pro Server is a remote control browser system from the German company m-privacy. A security vulnerability exists in m-privacy TightGate-Pro Server versions prior to 2.0.406g, which originates from an easily compromised access control on X11 server sockets, allowing an...

CVE-2023-47250

CVE-2023-47250 affects mprivacy-tools prior to 2.0.406g (m-privacy TightGate-Pro Server). The root cause is broken access control on X11 server sockets, enabling an authenticated attacker with access to a VNC session to specify another user’s DISPLAY ID and access that user’s X11 desktop. This gr...