Google Pays $1.375 Billion to Texas Over Unauthorized Tracking and Biometric Data Collection

Google has agreed to pay the U.S. state of Texas nearly $1.4 billion to settle two lawsuits that accused the company of tracking users' personal location and maintaining their facial recognition data without consent. The $1.375 billion payment dwarfs the fines the tech giant has paid to settle...

Pakistani Firm Shipped Fentanyl Analogs, Scams to US

A Texas firm recently charged with conspiring to distribute synthetic opioids in the United States is at the center of a vast network of companies in the U.S. and Pakistan whose employees are accused of using online ads to scam westerners seeking help with trademarks, book writing, mobile app...

UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49847

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ethernet: ti: am65-cpsw: Fix segmentation fault at module unload Move am65cpswnussphylinkcleanup call to after am65cpswnusscleanupndev so phylink is still valid to prevent the below Segmentation fault on module remove when...

CVE-2022-49847 net: ethernet: ti: am65-cpsw: Fix segmentation fault at module unload

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ethernet: ti: am65-cpsw: Fix segmentation fault at module unload Move am65cpswnussphylinkcleanup call to after am65cpswnusscleanupndev so phylink is still valid to prevent the below Segmentation fault on module remove when...

CVE-2022-49847

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ethernet: ti: am65-cpsw: Fix segmentation fault at module unload Move am65cpswnussphylinkcleanup call to after am65cpswnusscleanupndev so phylink is still valid to prevent the below Segmentation fault on module remove when...

A Bootiful Podcast: Java Champion, Tessl Devrel head, friend, Virtual JUG co-founder Simon Maple

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, we catch up with Java Champion, Tessl Devrel head, Virtual JUG co-founder, and friend Simon Maple! This episode was recorded at the amazing ArcOfAI conference held in amazing Austin, TX!...

Chinese Smishing Kit Powers Widespread Toll Fraud Campaign Targeting U.S. Users in 8 States

Cybersecurity researchers are warning of a "widespread and ongoing" SMS phishing campaign that's been targeting toll road users in the United States for financial theft since mid-October 2024. "The toll road smishing attacks are being carried out by multiple financially motivated threat actors...

Oracle Hit with Lawsuit Over Alleged Cloud Breach Affecting Millions

Oracle faces a class action lawsuit filed in Texas over a cloud data breach exposing sensitive data of 6M+ users; plaintiff alleges negligence and delays...

texascommunitypartnerprogram.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-4033535

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49652

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dmaengine: ti: Fix refcount leak in tidra7xbarrouteallocate ofparsephandle returns a node pointer with refcount incremented, we should use ofnodeput on it when not needed anymore. Add missing ofnodeput in to fix this...

CVE-2022-49473 ASoC: ti: j721e-evm: Fix refcount leak in j721e_soc_probe_*

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: ti: j721e-evm: Fix refcount leak in j721esocprobe ofparsephandle returns a node pointer with refcount incremented, we should use ofnodeput on it when not needed anymore. Add missing ofnodeput to avoid refcount leak...

Healthcare security lapses keep piling up

Healthcare is one of the sectors that has the most sensitive information about us. At the same time it's one of the worst at keeping them secret. Because of its access and storage of our personal health information PHI and other personally identifiable information PII, the healthcare sector shoul...

Clinical Research Firm Exposes 1.6 Million US Medical Survey Records

A Dallas, Texas-based clinical research firm had its database exposed, containing sensitive personal healthcare records of over 1.6…...

CVE-2021-22636

Texas Instruments TI-RTOS, when configured to use HeapMem heapdefault, malloc returns a valid pointer to a small buffer on extremely large values, which can trigger an integer overflow vulnerability in 'HeapMemallocUnprotected' and result in code execution...

CVE-2022-25334

The Texas Instruments OMAP L138 secure variants trusted execution environment TEE lacks a bounds check on the signature size field in the SKLOAD module loading routine, present in mask ROM. A module with a sufficiently large signature field causes a stack overflow, affecting secure kernel data...

CVE-2022-25333

The Texas Instruments OMAP L138 secure variants trusted execution environment TEE performs an RSA check implemented in mask ROM when loading a module through the SKLOAD routine. However, only the module header authenticity is validated. An adversary can re-use any correctly signed header and appe...

Texas scrutinizes four more car manufacturers on privacy issues (updated)

The Texas Attorney General’s Office has started an investigation into how Ford, Hyundai, Toyota, and Fiat Chrysler collect, share, and sell consumer data, expanding an earlier probe launched last year into how modern automakers are potentially using customer driving data. We've addressed cars and...

Chinese Innovations Spawn Wave of Toll Phishing Via SMS

Residents across the United States are being inundated with text messages purporting to come from toll road operators like E-ZPass , warning that recipients face fines if a delinquent toll fee remains unpaid. Researchers say the surge in SMS spam coincides with new features added to a popular...

Rumble Among 15 Targets of Texas Attorney General’s Child Privacy Probe

Texas has become a leading enforcer of internet rules. Its latest probe includes some platforms that privacy experts describe as unusual suspects...

kernel: dmaengine: ti: k3-udma: Reset UDMA_CHAN_RT byte counters to prevent overflow

A counter-overflow flaw was found in the Linux kernel Texas Instruments K3 Universal Direct Memory Access UDMA driver. During long data transfers exceeding four gigabytes, the hardware byte-count registers could wrap and misreport progress, causing the transfer to hang indefinitely. A local user...