OpenAI kills “short-lived experiment” where ChatGPT chats could be found on Google

A little-known ChatGPT "feature" is now gone. It could be a good thing. On X, OpenAI Chief Information Security Officer Dane Stuckey announced that OpenAI "removed a feature from ChatGPT that allowed users to make their conversations discoverable by search engines, such as Google." Stuckey called...

WakaTime: Unauthorized Disclosure of Private Emails via WakaTime Private Leaderboards

The vulnerability allowed unauthorized disclosure of private email addresses of WakaTime users through the private leaderboards feature. The email addresses were exposed to leaderboard creators and members, even when the users had not chosen to make their emails public...

Brave Browser Blocks Microsoft Recall from Tracking Online Activity

Brave browser now blocks Microsoft Recall by default, preventing screenshots and protecting users’ browsing history on Windows 11...

Security Vulnerabilities in ICEBlock

The ICEBlock tool has vulnerabilities: The developer of ICEBlock, an iOS app for anonymously reporting sightings of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE officials, promises that it "ensures user privacy by storing no personal data." But that claim has come under scrutiny. ICEBlock creator...

CVE-2025-49846 wire-ios accidentally logs message contents

wire-ios is an iOS client for the Wire secure messaging application. From Wire iOS 3.111.1 to before 3.124.1, messages that were visible in the view port have been logged to the iOS system logs in clear text. Wire application logs created and managed by the application itself were not affected,...

Facebook's New AI Tool Asks to Upload Your Photos for Story Ideas, Sparking Privacy Concerns

Facebook, the social network platform owned by Meta, is asking for users to upload pictures from their phones to suggest collages, recaps, and other ideas using artificial intelligence AI, including those that have not been directly uploaded to the service. According to TechCrunch, which first...

CVE-2025-5526 BuddyPress Docs < 2.2.5 - Subscriber+ Arbitrary Document Read/Update

The BuddyPress Docs WordPress plugin before 2.2.5 lacks proper access controls and allows a logged in user to view and download files belonging to another user...

CVE-2025-6431

When a link can be opened in an external application, Firefox for Android will, by default, prompt the user before doing so. An attacker could have bypassed this prompt, potentially exposing the user to security vulnerabilities or privacy leaks in external applications. This bug only affects...

WhatsApp to start targeting you with ads

WhatsApp has announced that it will start to show you targeted ads on the app. The ads, it says, will appear under the Updates tab. WhatsApp launched the Updates tab a year ago, and now 1.5 billion people visit it every day. Updates has historically been a place for users to follow news and updat...

OpenAI forced to preserve ChatGPT chats

OpenAI has protested a court order that forces it to retain its users' conversations. The creator of the ChatGPT AI model objected to the order, which is part of a copyright infringement case against it by The New York Times and other publishers. The news organizations argued that ChatGPT was...

Pornhub, RedTube, and YouPorn block access in France, VPN use set to soar

VPNs Virtual Private Networks are suddenly popular in France. Not because France has suddenly become super privacy conscious, but because Pornhub, RedTube, and YouPorn, have blocked access in France. But why? Last year, France enacted a law mandating that pornographic sites implement stricter...

Privacy and Security Threat for OpenAI GPTs

Large language models LLMs demonstrate powerful information handling capabilities and are widely integrated into chatbot applications. OpenAI provides a platform for developers to construct custom GPTs, extending ChatGPT's functions and integrating external services. Since its release in November...

Location Tracking App for Foreigners in Moscow

Russia is proposing a rule that all foreigners in Moscow install a tracking app on their phones. Using a mobile application that all foreigners will have to install on their smartphones, the Russian state will receive the following information: Residence location Fingerprint Face photograph...

CVE-2024-34457

On versions before 2.1.4, after a regular user successfully logs in, they can manually make a request using the authorization token to view everyone's user flink information, including executeSQL and config. Mitigation: all users should upgrade to 2.1.4...

CVE-2024-24755

discourse-group-membership-ip-block is a discourse plugin that adds support for adding users to groups based on their IP address. discourse-group-membership-ip-block was sending all group custom fields to the client, including group custom fields from other plugins which may expect their custom...

CVE-2024-55946

Playloom Engine is an open-source, high-performance game development engine. Engine Beta v0.0.1 has a security vulnerability related to data storage, specifically when using the collaboration features. When collaborating with another user, they may have access to personal information you have...

CVE-2024-40594

The OpenAI ChatGPT app before 2024-07-05 for macOS opts out of the sandbox, and stores conversations in cleartext in a location accessible to other apps...

CVE-2024-51362

The LSC Smart Connect Indoor IP Camera V7.6.32 is vulnerable to an information disclosure issue where live camera footage can be accessed through the RTSP protocol on port 8554 without requiring authentication. This allows unauthorized users with network access to view the camera's feed,...

CVE-2023-5160

Mattermost fails to check the Show Full Name option at the /api/v4/teams/TEAMID/top/teammembers endpoint allowing a member to get the full name of another user even if the Show Full Name option was disabled...

CVE-2023-45223

Mattermost fails to properly validate the "Show Full Name" option in a few endpoints in Mattermost Boards, allowing a member to get the full name of another user even if the Show Full Name option was disabled...