UBUNTU-CVE-2023-1555

An issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting all versions starting from 15.2 before 16.1.5, all versions starting from 16.2 before 16.2.5, all versions starting from 16.3 before 16.3.1. A namespace-level banned user can access the API...

GitLab Security Breach

GitLab is an open source, end-to-end software development platform from GitLab, Inc. with built-in version control, issue tracking, code review, CI/CD Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, and other features. A security vulnerability exists in GitLab, which stems from the fact that user...

PT-2023-17071 · Gitlab · Gitlab

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: GitLab versions 15.2 through 16.1.4 GitLab versions 16.2 through 16.2.4 GitLab versions 16.3 through 16.3.0 Description: An issue has been discovered in GitLab where a namespace-level banned user can access the API. Recommendations: For GitLa...

Friday Squid Blogging: China’s Squid Fishing Ban Ineffective

China imposed a "pilot program banning fishing in parts of the south-west Atlantic Ocean from July to October, and parts of the eastern Pacific Ocean from September to December." However, the conservation group Oceana analyzed the data and figured out that the Chinese werent fishing in those area...

HackerOne: Bypass report submit restriction/ban using the API key

A vulnerability was discovered that allowed banned researchers to submit reports through API keys, bypassing reporting restrictions. By creating an API key after an account was banned from submitting reports, a researcher could still submit reports to programs without restrictions, potentially...

Rocket.Chat: IDOR vulnerability leads to Deleting message after leaving/getting banned from group using message ID

The vulnerability discovered was an IDOR Insecure Direct Object Reference vulnerability. The issue allowed a user to delete messages in a channel they had been banned from or left, using the message ID obtained from a previous message sent in the channel. This vulnerability existed because the...

China Bans U.S. Chip Giant Micron, Citing "Serious Cybersecurity Problems"

China has banned U.S. chip maker Micron from selling its products to Chinese companies working on key infrastructure projects, citing national security risks. The development comes nearly two months after the country's cybersecurity authority initiated a probe in late March 2023 to assess potenti...

How You, or Anyone, Can Dodge Montana’s TikTok Ban

Montana’s TikTok ban will be impossible to enforce. But it could encourage copycat crackdowns against the social media app...

Toyota Leaked Vehicle Data of 2 Million Customers

The FBI disables notorious Russia-linked malware, the EU edges toward a facial recognition ban, and security firm Dragos has an intrusion of its own...

Malicious code in ban-notifier4 (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ossf-package-analysis 40f50b4925a587e36b4236377850d644915a64a9183b4f152ac4f99cefffd557 The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'ban-notifier4' @ 1.0.0 npm as malicious. It is considered malicious because: - The package...

PT-2023-16536 · Gitlab · Gitlab Ce/Ee +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: GitLab EE versions 15.2 through 15.9.5 GitLab EE versions 15.10 through 15.10.4 GitLab EE versions 15.11 through 15.11.0 Description: An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE where a malicious group member may continue to have access to the...

Montana’s Looming TikTok Ban Is a Dangerous Tipping Point

The state is poised to be the first in the US to block downloads of the popular app, which could ignite a precarious chain reaction for digital rights...

Read The Manual Locker: A Private RaaS Provider

Read The Manual Locker: A Private RaaS Provider By Trellix · April 13, 2023 This blog was written by Max Kersten The underground intelligence was obtained byN074B07. Another day, another ransomware-as-a-service RaaS provider, or so it seems. We’ve observed the “Read The Manual” RTM Locker gang,...

Read The Manual Locker: A Private RaaS Provider

Read The Manual Locker: A Private RaaS Provider By Max Kersten · April 13, 2023 The underground intelligence was obtained by N074B07. Another day, another ransomware-as-a-service RaaS provider, or so it seems. We’ve observed the “Read The Manual” RTM Locker gang, previously known for their e-crim...

Italian Watchdog Bans OpenAI's ChatGPT Over Data Protection Concerns

The Italian data protection watchdog, Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali aka Garante, has imposed a temporary ban of OpenAI's ChatGPT service in the country, citing data protection concerns. To that end, it has ordered the company to stop processing users' data with immediate effect,...

Italian Watchdog Bans OpenAI's ChatGPT Over Data Protection Concerns

The Italian data protection watchdog, Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali aka Garante, has imposed a temporary ban of OpenAI's ChatGPT service in the country, citing data protection concerns. To that end, it has ordered the company to stop processing users' data with immediate effect,...

Banning TikTok

Congress is currently debating bills that would ban TikTok in the United States. We are here as technologists to tell you that this is a terrible idea and the side effects would be intolerable. Details matter. There are several ways Congress might ban TikTok, each with different efficacies and si...

The Push to Ban TikTok in the US Isn’t About Privacy

Lawmakers are increasingly hellbent on punishing the popular social network while efforts to pass a broader privacy law have dwindled...

TrickBot gang members sanctioned after pandemic ransomware attacks

In a collaborative partnership, officials in the United States and the United Kingdom unmasked and imposed financial sanctions against seven members of the notorious Russian gang TrickBot alias "TrickLoader", a mainstream banking Trojan turned malware-as-a-service MaaS platform for other criminal...

MAL-2023-121 Malicious code in ban-notifier (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware aecea46554ceaa591315411d0d3e279f9dab01878d3136b5f7a3e6e44974bb94 Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...