CVE-2023-34090

Decidim is a participatory democracy framework, written in Ruby on Rails, originally developed for the Barcelona City government online and offline participation website. Decidim uses a third-party library named Ransack for filtering certain database collections e.g., public meetings. By default,...

CVE-2023-1431

The WP Simple Shopping Cart plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in versions up to, and including, 4.6.3 due to the plugin saving shopping cart data exports in a publicly accessible location /wp-content/plugins/wordpress-simple-paypal-shopping-cart/includes/admin/...

I checked out the European vulnerability database, EUVD, which was officially launched yesterday

I checked out the European vulnerability database,EUVD, which was officiallylaunchedyesterday. Its usefulness is questionable for now. !🤷‍♂️https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/15.1.0/72x72/1f937-200d-264...

Do You Really Need Public Data? Surrogate Public Data for Differential Privacy on Tabular Data

Differentially private DP machine learning often relies on the availability of public data for tasks like privacy-utility trade-off estimation, hyperparameter tuning, and pretraining. While public data assumptions may be reasonable in text and image domains, they are less likely to hold for tabul...

Meta Resumes E.U. AI Training Using Public User Data After Regulator Approval

Meta has announced that it will begin to train its artificial intelligence AI models using public data shared by adults across its platforms in the European Union, nearly a year after it paused its efforts due to data protection concerns from Irish regulators. "This training will better support...

Even More Venmo Accounts Tied to Trump Officials in Signal Group Chat Left Data Public

WIRED has found four new Venmo accounts that appear to be associated with Trump officials who were in an infamous Signal chat. One made a payment with a note consisting solely of an eggplant emoji...

Brazil Arrests ‘USDoD,’ Hacker in FBI Infragard Breach

Brazilian authorities reportedly have arrested a 33-year-old man on suspicion of being "USDoD ," a prolific cybercriminal who rose to infamy in 2022 after infiltrating the FBI 's InfraGard program and leaking contact information for 80,000 members. More recently, USDoD was behind a breach at the...

Brazil arrests USDoD hacker tied to FBI, National Public Data breaches

Brazilian police have arrested the hacker known as USDoD, responsible for high-profile breaches including the FBI’s InfraGard and…...

National Keep CyberMath 安全漏洞

National Keep CyberMath is a cybersecurity risk analysis tool for organizations from National Keep. A security vulnerability exists in versions prior to National Keep CyberMath CYBM.240816253, which stems from the presence of an external-party-accessible file or directory vulnerability that could...

A week in security (August 19 – August 25)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Millennials’ sense of privacy uniquely tested in romantic relationships Hacked GPS tracker reveals location data of customers "We will hold them accountable": General Motors sued for selling customer driving data to third parties Why you need to know about ransomwa...

When War Came to Their Country, They Built a Map

The Telegram channel and website Deep State uses public data and insider intelligence to power its live tracker of Ukraine’s ever-shifting front line...

No, not every Social Security number in the U.S. was stolen

My current least favorite thing about the churn of social media that Ive seen over the past week is waves of stories, posts and videos saying that every U.S. citizens Social Security number has been stolen or potentially viewed by a threat actor. The claim comes from a class action lawsuit filed ...

National Public Data leaked passwords online

Earlier this month, a huge trove of data from scraping service National Public Data was posted online. The dump made international headlines because it included data on hundreds of millions of people, and included Social Security Numbers. As if that wasnt bad enough, KrebsOnSecurity is now...

National Public Data Published Its Own Passwords

New details are emerging about a breach at National Public Data NPD, a consumer data broker that recently spilled hundreds of millions of Americans Social Security Numbers, addresses, and phone numbers online. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that another NPD data broker which shares access to the sam...

The Slow-Burn Nightmare of the National Public Data Breach

Social Security numbers, physical addresses, and more—all available online. After months of confusion, leaked information from a background-check firm underscores the long-term risks of data breaches...

Stolen data from scraping service National Public Data leaked online

Cybercriminals are offering a large database for sale that may include your data without you even being aware of its existence. The stolen data comes from a data scraping service trading under the name “National Public Data” which was allegedly breached by a cybercriminal group by the name of...

Data Breach: 3 Billion National Public Data Records with SSNs Dumped Online

National Public Data, a service by Jerico Pictures Inc., suffered a massive breach. Hacker "Fenice" leaked 2.9 billion…...

The AI Debate: Google's Guidelines, Meta's GDPR Dispute, Microsoft's Recall Backlash

Google is urging third-party Android app developers to incorporate generative artificial intelligence GenAI features in a responsible manner. The new guidance from the search and advertising giant is an effort to combat problematic content, including sexual content and hate speech, created throug...

CVE-2024-3717

The Drag and Drop Multiple File Upload – Contact Form 7 plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.7.7 via the '/wp-content/uploads/wpdndcf7uploads/wpcf7-files' directory. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to...

The AI Dividend

For four decades, Alaskans have opened their mailboxes to find checks waiting for them, their cut of the black gold beneath their feet. This is Alaskas Permanent Fund, funded by the states oil revenues and paid to every Alaskan each year. Were now in a different sort of resource rush, with...