CVE-2023-28910

CVE-2023-28910 concerns the Bluetooth stack in Volkswagen MIB3 infotainment systems (notably OEM part 3V0035820; seen in Skoda Superb III). The root cause is a disabled abortion flag that can lead to bypassing assertion functions, enabling a high-severity impact as described by the CVSS (AV Adjac...

A Hacker May Have Deepfaked Trump’s Chief of Staff in a Phishing Campaign

Plus: An Iranian man pleads guilty to a Baltimore ransomware attack, Russia’s nuclear blueprints get leaked, a Texas sheriff uses license plate readers to track a woman who got an abortion, and more...

Google failing to scrub abortion access in location history, study claims

Nearly 16 months after Google announced a policy change to remove location data that could reveal users’ physical trips to abortion clinics and other potentially sensitive medical centers, a nonprofit has alleged in a new report that the company is failing to do just that. The findings, which wer...

The Most Popular Digital Abortion Clinics, Ranked by Data Privacy

Telehealth companies that provide abortion pills are surging in popularity. Which are as safe as they claim to be?...

Nude Videos of Kids From Hacked Baby Monitors Were Sold on Telegram

Plus: A fitness app may have leaked the location of a murdered submarine captain, the privacy risks of filing taxes online, and how Facebook data was used in an abortion trial...

Inside the Dangerous Underground Abortion Pill Market Growing on Telegram

As states further limit access to abortion care in the US, a gray market for medication is filling the void. Buyers beware...

ICE Is Grabbing Data From Schools and Abortion Clinics

An agency database WIRED obtained reveals widespread use of so-called 1509 summonses that experts say raises the specter of potential abuse...

Meta Just Happens to Expand Messenger’s End-to-End Encryption

The company says an expansion of privacy features in Messenger is unrelated to a high-profile Nebraska abortion case...

Have we lost the fight for data privacy? Lock and Code S03E16

At the end of 2021, Lock and Code invited the folks behind our news-driven cybersecurity and online privacy blog, Malwarebytes Labs, to discuss what upset them most about cybersecurity in the year prior. Today, were bringing those same guests back to discuss the other, biggest topic in this space...

In post-Roe US, experts share how to keep your data private

In the weeks since the Supreme Court of the United States removed a nationwide right to choose to have an abortion, millions of Americans have been forced to relearn what is and isn’t safe to do online, as their actions, words, and choices—many of which are tracked digitally—could potentially be...

Interstate Travel Post-Roe Isn’t as Secure as You May Think

Despite the DOJ vowing to protect people's ability to travel out of state for abortion care, legal experts warn not to take that freedom for granted...

Roe v. Wade: How the cops can use your data: Lock and Code S03E15

On the evening of June 23, in the United States, millions of women went to bed with a Constitutional right to choose to have an abortion, and they went to bed with the many assurances that are tied to that right—to speak about getting an abortion, to organize and provide support to those seeking...

Post-Roe Privacy

This is an excellent essay outlining the post-Roe privacy threat model. Summary: period tracking apps are largely a red herring. Taken together, this means the primary digital threat for people who take abortion pills is the actual evidence of intention stored on your phone, in the form of texts,...

The Danger of License Plate Readers in Post-Roe America

Known as ALPRs, this surveillance tech is pervasive across the US—and could soon be used by police and anti-abortion groups alike...

End-to-End Encryption's Central Role in Modern Self-Defense

With abortion set to be criminalized in more than half the US, encryption has never been more important for protection—and civil disobedience...

My Body, My Data Act would lock down reproductive and sexual health data

A new bill entered into both the House of Representatives and the Senate proposes the strongest Federal data privacy protections yet for an increasingly scrutinized form of data in the United States—reproductive and sexual health data. The “My Body, My Data Act of 2022” was announced in early Jun...

Google Urged to Stop Tracking Location Data Ahead of Roe Reversal

Lawmakers argue Android phone data could be “weaponized against women” if the US Supreme Court officially overturns abortion protections...

Data Brokers Track Abortion Clinic Visits for Anyone to Buy

Plus: Russia rerouted internet in occupied Ukraine, Grindr sold its users' location data to ad networks, and more...

Planned Parenthood Breach Opens Patients to Follow-On Attacks

Planned Parenthood’s Los Angeles PPLA division has been hacked, with cyberattackers making off with sensitive personal health information for at least 400,000 patients. In a data-breach notice PDF filed with the state of California, the organization said that it had detected the intrusion on Oct...

Anonymous hacks Texas Republican Party website against abortion law

By Waqas The Texas Republican Party is now asking for donations to secure its website from further attacks from Anonymous and "Pro-abortion activists." This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Anonymous hacks Texas Republican Party website against abortion law...