US Hands Over Russian Cybercriminals in WSJ Reporter Prisoner Swap

Plus: Meta pays $1.4 million in a historic privacy settlement, Microsoft blames a cyberattack for a major Azure outage, and an artist creates a face recognition system to reveal your NYPD “coppelganger.”...

Meta to pay $1.4 billion over unauthorized facial recognition image capture

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced a $1.4 billion settlement with Meta to “stop the company’s practice of capturing and using the personal biometric data of millions of Texans without the authorization required by law.” The prime reason for the initial lawsuit that led to the...

Celebrating Excellence: Rapid7 Recognized in Newsweek's Greatest Workplaces in America 2024

In a testament to its commitment to fostering an exceptional workplace environment, Rapid7 is proud to be included in Newsweek's Greatest Workplaces in America for 2024. This recognition not only underscores Rapid7's dedication to its people, but also cements its standing among companies that...

Meta Settles for $1.4 Billion with Texas Over Illegal Biometric Data Collection

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, agreed to a record $1.4 billion settlement with the U.S. state of Texas over allegations that it illegally collected biometric data of millions of users without their permission, marking one of the largest penalties levied by regulato...

Congratulations to the Top MSRC 2024 Q2 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 Q2 Security Researcher Leaderboard are Yuki Chen,...

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-29511

Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.1, when Tesseract is used for OCR, has a directory traversal issue that allows arbitrary file reading and writing of error messages to arbitrary files via OCRLanguage. For example, exploitation can use debugfile /tmp/out and userpatternsfile /etc/passwd...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-29511

Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.1, when Tesseract is used for OCR, has a directory traversal issue that allows arbitrary file reading and writing of error messages to arbitrary files via OCRLanguage. For example, exploitation can use debugfile /tmp/out and userpatternsfile /etc/passwd...

Artifex Ghostscript 安全漏洞

Artifex Software Ghostscript is an open source parser for Postscript a page description language and programming language used in the electronics industry and desktop publishing from Artifex Software, Inc. The product can display Postscript files as well as print Postscript files on non-PostScrip...

Google Is Piloting Face Recognition for Office Security

Plus: A cloud company says notorious Russian hacker group APT29 attacked it, Chinese hackers use ransomware to hide their espionage campaigns, and a bank popular with startups discloses a cyberattack...

The vulnerability of the Speech API’s software interface for speech recognition and synthesis on Windows operating systems allows attackers to exploit their privileges.

The vulnerability of the Speech API SAPI software interface for speech recognition and synthesis in Windows operating systems is related to a memory reclamation error. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to increase their privileges...

CVE-2024-38636 f2fs: multidev: fix to recognize valid zero block address

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: multidev: fix to recognize valid zero block address As reported by Yi Zhang in mailing list 1, kernel warning was catched during zbd/010 test as below: ./check zbd/010 zbd/010 test gap zone support with F2FS failed runtime...

Motorola Solutions Vigilant Fixed LPR Coms Box Trust Management Issues Vulnerability

Motorola Solutions Vigilant Fixed LPR Coms Box is a license plate recognition system from Motorola Solutions USA. The Motorola Solutions Vigilant Fixed LPR Coms Box suffers from a trust management issue vulnerability that stems from an attacker being able to access the maintenance console using...

Motorola Solutions Vigilant Fixed LPR Coms Box Security Vulnerability

Motorola Solutions Vigilant Fixed LPR Coms Box is a license plate recognition system from Motorola Solutions USA. A security vulnerability exists in the Motorola Solutions Vigilant Fixed LPR Coms Box that originates from the exploitation of default credentials that allow an attacker to log in to...

Motorola Solutions Vigilant Fixed LPR Coms Box Security Vulnerability

Motorola Solutions Vigilant Fixed LPR Coms Box is a license plate recognition system from Motorola Solutions USA. A security vulnerability exists in the Motorola Solutions Vigilant Fixed LPR Coms Box, which arises from data being stored in clear text, which could allow an unauthorized user to...

Fedora: Security Advisory for qt6-qtsensors (FEDORA-2024-bfb8617ba3)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Fedora: Security Advisory for qt5-qtsensors (FEDORA-2024-2e27372d4c)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

[SECURITY] Fedora 40 Update: qt5-qtsensors-5.15.14-1.fc40

The Qt Sensors API provides access to sensor hardware via QML and C++ interfaces. The Qt Sensors API also provides a motion gesture recognition API for devices...

[SECURITY] Fedora 40 Update: qt6-qtsensors-6.7.1-1.fc40

The Qt Sensors API provides access to sensor hardware via QML and C++ interfaces. The Qt Sensors API also provides a motion gesture recognition API for devices...

Rapid7 Recognized in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SIEM

Command Your Attack Surface with a next-gen SIEM built for the Cloud First Era Rapid7 is excited to share that we are named a Challenger for InsightIDR in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SIEM. In a crowded and constantly changing space, this is our sixth time to be recognized in the report...

About the security content of watchOS 10.5

About the security content of watchOS 10.5 This document describes the security content of watchOS 10.5. 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 availabl...