Security Evaluation of Android Apps in Budget African Mobile Devices

Android's open-source nature facilitates widespread smartphone accessibility, particularly in price-sensitive markets. System and vendor applications that come pre-installed on budget Android devices frequently operate with elevated privileges, yet they receive limited independent examination. To...

How Leading CISOs are Getting Budget Approval

It's budget season. Once again, security is being questioned, scrutinized, or deprioritized. If you're a CISO or security leader, you've likely found yourself explaining why your program matters, why a given tool or headcount is essential, and how the next breach is one blind spot away. But these...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-27073

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - media: ttpci: fix two memleaks in budgetavattach When saa7146registerdevice and saa7146vvinit fails, budgetavattach should free the resources it allocates, like...

Exploring Satellite Quantum Key Distribution under Atmospheric Constraints

Satellite Quantum Key Distribution creates a pathway for secure global communication with a level of security that is peerless. However, ground-to-satellite Quantum Key Distribution links are degraded due to the atmospheric turbulence. This paper gives a numerical framework using angular spectrum...

A Privacy-Preserving Framework for Advertising Personalization Incorporating Federated Learning and Differential Privacy

To mitigate privacy leakage and performance issues in personalized advertising, this paper proposes a framework that integrates federated learning and differential privacy. The system combines distributed feature extraction, dynamic privacy budget allocation, and robust model aggregation to balan...

CovertAuth: Joint Covert Communication and Authentication in MmWave Systems

Beam alignment BA is a crucial process in millimeter-wave mmWave communications, enabling precise directional transmission and efficient link establishment. However, due to characteristics like omnidirectional exposure and the broadcast nature of the BA phase, it is particularly vulnerable to...

Dynamic Risk Assessments for Offensive Cybersecurity Agents

Foundation models are increasingly becoming better autonomous programmers, raising the prospect that they could also automate dangerous offensive cyber-operations. Current frontier model audits probe the cybersecurity risks of such agents, but most fail to account for the degrees of freedom...

Theoretically Unmasking Inference Attacks against LDP-Protected Clients in Federated Vision Models

Federated Learning enables collaborative learning among clients via a coordinating server while avoiding direct data sharing, offering a perceived solution to preserve privacy. However, recent studies on Membership Inference Attacks MIAs have challenged this notion, showing high success rates...

Big Bird: Privacy Budget Management for W3C'S Privacy-Preserving Attribution API

Privacy-preserving advertising APIs like Privacy-Preserving Attribution PPA are designed to enhance web privacy while enabling effective ad measurement. PPA offers an alternative to cross-site tracking with encrypted reports governed by differential privacy DP, but current designs lack a principl...

Differentially Private Distribution Release of Gaussian Mixture Models Via KL-Divergence Minimization

Gaussian Mixture Models GMMs are widely used statistical models for representing multi-modal data distributions, with numerous applications in data mining, pattern recognition, data simulation, and machine learning. However, recent research has shown that releasing GMM parameters poses significan...

CVE-2024-52528

Budget Control Gateway acts as an entry point for incoming requests and routes them to the appropriate microservices for Budget Control. Budget Control Gateway does not properly validate auth tokens, which allows attackers to bypass intended restrictions. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.5.2...

CVE-2024-22628

Budget and Expense Tracker System v1.0 is vulnerable to SQL Injection via /expensebudget/admin/?page=reports/budgetstart=2023-12-28end=...

CVE-2023-26860

SQL injection vulnerability found in PrestaShop Igbudget v.1.0.3 and before allow a remote attacker to gain privileges via the LgBudgetBudgetModuleFrontController::displayAjaxGenerateBudget component...

CVE-2023-2772

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in SourceCodester Budget and Expense Tracker System 1.0. Affected is an unknown function of the file /admin/budget/managebudget.php of the component GET Parameter Handler. The manipulation of the argument id leads to sql injection. It i...

CVE-2021-29388

A stored cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in SourceCodester Budget Management System 1.0 allows users to inject and store arbitrary JavaScript code in index.php via vulnerable field 'Budget Title'...

CVE-2021-43830

OpenProject is a web-based project management software. OpenProject versions = 12.0.0 are vulnerable to a SQL injection in the budgets module. For authenticated users with the "Edit budgets" permission, the request to reassign work packages to another budget unsufficiently sanitizes user input in...

Optimal Allocation of Privacy Budget on Hierarchical Data Release

Releasing useful information from datasets with hierarchical structures while preserving individual privacy presents a significant challenge. Standard privacy-preserving mechanisms, and in particular Differential Privacy, often require careful allocation of a finite privacy budget across differen...

kernel: block, bfq: fix possible UAF for bfqq->bic with merge chain

A flaw was found in the Budget Fair Queueing BFQ I/O scheduler in the Linux kernel. Handling merged chains of BFQ queues can cause a use-after-free condition and result in a denial of service...

Unencrypted Flying Objects: Security Lessons from University Small Satellite Developers and Their Code

Satellites face a multitude of security risks that set them apart from hardware on Earth. Small satellites may face additional challenges, as they are often developed on a budget and by amateur organizations or universities that do not consider security. We explore the security practices and...

Cluster-Aware Attacks on Graph Watermarks

Data from domains such as social networks, healthcare, finance, and cybersecurity can be represented as graph-structured information. Given the sensitive nature of this data and their frequent distribution among collaborators, ensuring secure and attributable sharing is essential. Graph...