UK Runs Fake DDoS-for-Hire Sites

Brian Krebs is reporting that the UKs National Crime Agency is setting up fake DDoS-for-hire sites as part of a sting operation: The NCA says all of its fake so-called "booter" or "stresser" sites -­ which have so far been accessed by several thousand people--have been created to look like they...

Senator Warner on the Restrict Act and a US TikTok Ban

WIRED spoke with the coauthor of the Restrict Act, a bipartisan bill to crack down on tech from six “hostile” countries...

PT-2023-35421 · Linux · Linux Kernel

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux Kernel versions prior to v5.15.95 Description: The issue is related to the usb bulk msg function in the Linux Kernel's USB subsystem. It involves passing act len in the error path, which may have potential security implications. The...

CVE-2023-24736

PMB v7.4.6 was discovered to contain a remote code execution RCE vulnerability via the component /sauvegarde/restaureact.php...

Remote code execution

PMB v7.4.6 was discovered to contain a remote code execution RCE vulnerability via the component /sauvegarde/restaureact.php...

Why Attackers Target the Healthcare Industry

Key Takeaways: Personal health information PHI is an incredibly valuable category of personal data. When compromised and sold on the dark web, this data can be sold for thousands of dollars. Healthcare is a valuable target to attackers, including the group Killnet, which targeted healthcare sites...

Two Supreme Court cases could change the Internet as we know it

The Supreme Court is about to reconsider Section 230, a law thats been the foundation of the way we have used the Internet for decades. The court will be handling a few cases that at first glance are about online platforms' liability for hosting accounts from foreign terrorists. But at a deeper...

FIRST ERC4626 DEPOSIT CAN BE EXPLOITED ON SHARE CALCULATION

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact As also encountered by Uniswap V2 and other protocols, the first depositor of an ERC4626 vault can maliciously manipulate the share price by depositing as low as 1 wei of liquidity prior to deliberately inflating ERC4626.totalAssets to as high as 1:1e18...

PT-2023-34866 · Linux · Linux Kernel

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux Kernel versions prior to v5.10.164 Description: A potential security issue exists due to a warning during failed attribute validation in the act mpls component of the Linux Kernel. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet...

PT-2023-34775 · Linux · Linux Kernel

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux Kernel versions prior to v6.1.7 Description: The issue is related to a warning during failed attribute validation in the act mpls component of the Linux Kernel's net/sched module. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet...

Privilege Escalation

github.com/nektos/act is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation. The vulnerability exists in multiple functions of server.go because the path inputs are not sanitized which allows an attacker to download and overwrite arbitrary files on the host...

4 ways to protect your privacy while scrolling

Privacy is a right that is yours to value and defend. Article 8 of the Human Rights Act protects your right to respect for your private and family life. One of the pillars of the article is that personal information about you including official records, photographs, letters, diaries, and medical...

TikTok CEO told to "step up efforts to comply" with digital laws

EU Commissioner Thierry Breton, the EU's digital policy chief, "explicitly conveyed" to TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew that the company must "step up efforts to comply" with the European Union's rules on copyright, data protection, and the Digital Services Act DSA--an EU regulation setting out "an...

CVE-2023-22726

Summary: CVE-2023-22726 affects the act project (local GitHub Actions runner). The artifact server does not sanitize path inputs, enabling path traversal via user-controlled paths on both the /upload and /artifact endpoints, which can lead to arbitrary file download and potential overwrites on th...

CVE-2023-22726 Unrestricted file upload leading to privilege escalation in act

act is a project which allows for local running of github actions. The artifact server that stores artifacts from Github Action runs does not sanitize path inputs. This allows an attacker to download and overwrite arbitrary files on the host from a Github Action. This issue may lead to privilege...

act 路径遍历漏洞

github act is a tool for running GitHub Actions locally. act suffers from a path traversal vulnerability that stems from the fact that path inputs are not cleaned up, leading to privilege escalation...

WhatsApp lawsuit against NSO Group greenlit by Supreme Court

On Monday, the US Supreme Court denied the NSO Group's petition for a writ of certiorari, a request to the high court to review its case, signaling that Meta's WhatsApp can go ahead with its case against the Israeli-based company behind the Pegasus spyware. The court didn't explain why it refused...

FTC Fines Fortnite Maker Epic Games $275 Million for Violating Children's Privacy Law

Epic Games has reached a $520 million settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission FTC over allegations that the Fortnite creator violated online privacy laws for children and tricked users into making unintended purchases in the video game. To that end, the company will pay a record $275...

CVE-2022-20516

In rwt3tacthandlecheckndefrsp of rwt3t.cc, there is a possible out of bounds read due to an integer overflow. This could lead to remote information disclosure with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions: Android-13Androi...

Is Apple about to embrace third-party app stores?

On Tuesday, Bloomberg reported that Apple is preparing to allow access to third-party app stores on all iPhone and iPad devices owned by EU users, in anticipation of a new EU competition law coming into force in mid-2024. If the reporting is correct, then in future users in the EU will no longer ...