Congratulations to the Top MSRC 2024 Q4 Security Researchers!

Congratulations to all the researchers recognized in this quarter’s Microsoft Researcher Recognition Program leaderboard! Thank you to everyone for your hard work and continued partnership to secure customers. The top three researchers of the 2024 Q4 Security Researcher Leaderboard are Suresh,...

The Paper Passport Is Dying

Smartphones and face recognition are being combined to create new digital travel documents. The paper passport’s days are numbered—despite new privacy risks...

Take Command of Your Career: Practicing Self-Advocacy as a Woman in Tech

As the year draws to a close, it’s essential—and often expected—to reflect on our achievements and lessons learned in preparation for annual performance reviews and setting future goals.For women in tech, this reflection period can be an especially powerful tool. The industry often demands that...

CVE-2017-13316

In checkPermissions of RecognitionService.java, there is a possible permissions bypass due to a missing permission check. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation...

CVE-2024-50194 arm64: probes: Fix uprobes for big-endian kernels

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: arm64: probes: Fix uprobes for big-endian kernels The arm64 uprobes code is broken for big-endian kernels as it doesn't convert the in-memory instruction encoding which is always little-endian into the kernel's native endianness...

Congratulations to the Top MSRC 2024 Q3 Security Researchers!

Congratulations to all the researchers recognized in this quarter’s Microsoft Researcher Recognition Program leaderboard! Thank you to everyone for your hard work and continued partnership to secure customers. The top three researchers of the 2024 Q3 Security Researcher Leaderboard are wkai,...

Upload a video selfie to get your Facebook or Instagram account back

Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram says its testing new ways to use facial recognition—both to combat scams and to help restore access to compromised accounts. The social media giant is testing the use of video selfies and facial recognition to help users get their hijacked accounts...

Google Chrome’s uBlock Origin Purge Has Begun

Plus: The alleged SEC X account hacker gets charged, Kroger wriggles out of a face recognition scandal, and Microsoft deals with missing customer security logs...

Auto-Identification Smart Glasses

Two students have created a demo of a smart-glasses app that performs automatic facial recognition and then information lookups. Kind of obvious--something similar was done in 2011--but the sort of creepy demo that gets attention. News article...

The FBI Still Hasn’t Cracked NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ Phone

Plus: Harvard students pack Meta’s smart glasses with privacy-invading face-recognition tech, Microsoft and the DOJ seize Russian hackers’ domains, and more...

Not Black Mirror: Meta’s smart glasses used to reveal someone’s identity just by looking at them

Like something out of Black Mirror, two students have demonstrated a way to use smart glasses and facial recognition technology to immediately reveal people’s names, phone numbers, and addresses. The Harvard students have dubbed the system I-XRAY and it works like this: When you look at someone’s...

AI-Powered Rhadamanthys Stealer Targets Crypto Wallets with Image Recognition

The threat actors behind the Rhadamanthys information stealer have added new advanced features to the malware, including using artificial intelligence AI for optical character recognition OCR as part of what's called "Seed Phrase Image Recognition." "This allows Rhadamanthys to extract...

Snapchat wants to put your AI-generated face in its ads

Snapchat is reserving the right to use your selfie images to power Cameos, Generative AI, and other experiences on Snapchat, including ads, according to our friends at 404 Media, The Snapchat Support page about its My Selfie feature says: “You’ll take selfies with your Snap camera or select image...

About the security content of watchOS11

About the security content of watchOS11 This document describes the security content of watchOS 11. About Apple security updates For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are available...

“Hello pervert” sextortion scam includes new threat of Pegasus—and a picture of your home

After using passwords obtained from one of the countless breaches as a lure to trick victims into paying, the “Hello pervert” sextortion scammers have recently introduced two new pressure tactics: Name-dropping the infamous Pegasus spyware and adding pictures of your home environment. They do thi...

Clearview AI Faces €30.5M Fine for Building Illegal Facial Recognition Database

The Dutch Data Protection Authority Dutch DPA has imposed a fine of €30.5 million $33.7 million against facial recognition firm Clearview AI for violating the General Data Protection Regulation GDPR in the European Union E.U. by building an "illegal database with billions of photos of faces,"...

Stadiums Are Embracing Face Recognition. Privacy Advocates Say They Should Stick to Sports

Protesters took to Citi Field Wednesday to raise awareness of the facial recognition systems that have become common at major league sporting venues...

SAP Commerce 信息泄露漏洞

SAP Commerce is a set of cloud-based e-commerce platforms from Germany's SAP. It supports sales management, marketing management, order management, and operations management. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in SAP Commerce that stems from the ability to recognize valid accounts...

Medium: ghostscript

Issue Overview: Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.0 has a heap-based pointer disclosure observable in a constructed BaseFont name in the function pdfbasefontalloc. CVE-2024-29508 Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.1, when Tesseract is used for OCR, has a directory traversal issue that allows arbitra...

A week in security (July 29 – August 4)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Threat actor impersonates Google via fake ad for Authenticator Scammers are impersonating cryptocurrency exchanges, FBI warns Meta to pay $1.4 billion over unauthorized facial recognition image capture Apple fixes Siri vulnerabilities that could have allowed...