23andMe Failed to Detect Account Intrusions for Months

Plus: North Korean hackers get into generative AI, a phone surveillance tool that can monitor billions of devices gets exposed, and ambient light sensors pose a new privacy risk...

Ring curtails law enforcement’s access to footage

US law enforcement will no longer be able to request footage through the Neighbors app produced by Ring video doorbells and surveillance cameras. Until now Ring’s Request for Assistance RFA function allowed law enforcement to ask for and obtain user footage, but this function will be retired. Alo...

Ring Will Stop Giving Cops a Free Pass on Warrantless Video Requests

The Amazon-owned home surveillance company says it is shuttering a feature in its Neighbors app that allows police to request footage from users. But it’s not shutting out the cops entirely...

Arbitrary File Download Vulnerability in DSS of Zhejiang Dahua Technology Co.(CNVD-2024-10023)

Zhejiang Dahua Technology Co., Ltd. is a supplier of surveillance products and solution service provider. Zhejiang Dahua Technology Co., Ltd DSS has an arbitrary file download vulnerability that can be exploited by attackers to obtain sensitive information...

Remcos RAT Spreading Through Adult Games in New Attack Wave

The remote access trojan RAT known as Remcos RAT has been found being propagated via webhards by disguising it as adult-themed games in South Korea. WebHard, short for web hard drive, is a popular online file storage system used to upload, download, and share files in the country. While webhards...

Information Leakage Vulnerability in Urban Security Monitoring DSS System of Zhejiang Dahua Technology Co.

Zhejiang Dahua Technology Co., Ltd. is a leading supplier and solution provider of surveillance products. An information leakage vulnerability exists in Zhejiang Dahua Technology Co. city security monitoring DSS system, which can be exploited by attackers to obtain sensitive information...

What Is Policy-as-Code

Decoding the Enigma: Policy-as-Code Explained The Information Technology IT sector can often feel like a maze of intricate jargon and theories. A phrase gaining traction in this field is Policy-as-Code PaC. However, what does Policy-as-Code entail? Let's demystify this enigma. Policy-as-Code...

Teledyne FLIR AX8 Path Traversal Vulnerability

The Teledyne FLIR AX8 is a series of thermal surveillance cameras from Teledyne FLIR USA. The Teledyne FLIR AX8 is vulnerable to a path traversal vulnerability that stems from the presence of a path traversal vulnerability...

The vulnerability of the QNAP QVR surveillance system arises from the lack of measures taken to neutralize special elements used in the operating system’s command set. This allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands.

The vulnerability of the QNAP QVR video surveillance system exists due to the failure to take measures to neutralize certain elements. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands...

Mastercard Cybersecurity

Safeguarding Trade: Discovering the World of Mastercard Digital Guardrails In our tech-driven era, it is vitro important that financial dealings are shielded competently. A colossal number of exchanges are happening each day, proving the ever growing necessity of sturdy digital protective measure...

23andMe Blames Users for Recent Data Breach as It's Hit With Dozens of Lawsuits

Plus: Russia hacks surveillance cameras as new details emerge of its attack on a Ukrainian telecom, a Google contractor pays for videos of kids to train AI, and more...

Sea Turtle Cyber Espionage Campaign Targets Dutch IT and Telecom Companies

Telecommunication, media, internet service providers ISPs, information technology IT-service providers, and Kurdish websites in the Netherlands have been targeted as part of a new cyber espionage campaign undertaken by a Türkiye-nexus threat actor known as Sea Turtle. "The infrastructure of the...

US pharmacy Rite Aid banned from operating facial recognition systems

Pharmacy chain Rite Aid has been denied the right to run facial recognition systems in its stores for five years, by a Federal Trade Commission FTC ruling. The regulator found so many flaws in the retailers surveillance program that it concluded Rite Aid had failed to implement reasonable...

Intellexa and Cytrox: From fixer-upper to Intel Agency-grade spyware

By Mike Gentile, Asheer Malhotra and Vitor Ventura. Editors note: This blog post is a public version of a talk presented at LabsCon 2023 on Sept. 22, 2023. You can watch a recording of the talk here. Some of the intelligence presented at LabsCon was later confirmed by an Amnesty International blo...

MajorDoMo Remote Code Execution

Introduction MajorDoMo, a beacon in Russian home automation and particularly favored by Raspberry Pi aficionados, has been a trusted name for over a decade. With over 380 stars on its official GitHub repository at the time of writing https://github.com/sergejey/majordomo, its popularity is eviden...

Google Just Denied Cops a Key Surveillance Tool

Plus: Apple tightens anti-theft protections, Chinese hackers penetrate US critical infrastructure, and the long-running rumor of eavesdropping phones crystallizes into more than an urban legend...

Surveillance Cameras Disguised as Clothes Hooks

This seems like a bad idea. And there are ongoing lawsuits against Amazon for selling them...

Surveillance by the US Postal Service

This is not about mass surveillance of mail, this is about the sorts of targeted surveillance the US Postal Inspection Service uses to catch mail thieves: To track down an alleged mail thief, a US postal inspector used license plate reader technology, GPS data collected by a rental car company,...

Congress Clashes Over the Future of America’s Section 702 Spy Program

Competing bills moving through the House of Representatives both reauthorize Section 702 surveillance—but they pave very different paths forward for Americans’ privacy and civil liberties...

US government is snooping on people via phone push notifications, says senator

Many people don’t realize that the instant alert push notifications you get on your phone are routed through Google or Apples servers, depending on which device you use. So if you have an iPhone or iPad, any push notifications can be seen by Apple, and if you use an Android, they can be seen by...