Data brokers should stop trading health and location data, new bill proposes

Senators introduced a bill on Tuesday that would prohibit data brokers from selling or transferring location and health data. Data brokers have drawn attention this year by leaking several large databases, with the worst being the National Public Data leak. The data breach made international...

Temu must respect consumer protection laws, says EU

Temu has been accused of a number of infringements on its platform against European Union EU consumer law. The Consumer Protection Cooperation CPC Network of national consumer authorities and the European Commission teamed up for a coordinated ongoing investigation into Temu and its practices. Th...

The vulnerability of the mmsServerHandleDeleteNamedVariableListRequest() function in the C language library libIEC61850 allows a attacker to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability of the mmsServerHandleDeleteNamedVariableListRequest function in the libIEC61850 library, written in the C language, is related to improper cleanup or release of resources. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause service failures remotely...

Meta Given Deadline to Address E.U. Concerns Over 'Pay or Consent' Model

Meta has been given time till September 1, 2024, to respond to concerns raised by the European Commission over its "pay or consent" advertising model or risk-facing enforcement measures, including sanctions. The European Commission said the Consumer Protection Cooperation CPC Network has notified...

Malicious code in commission-junction_stats (RubyGems)

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MAL-2024-6840 Malicious code in commission-junction_stats (RubyGems)

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Meta Pauses AI Training on EU User Data Amid Privacy Concerns

Meta on Friday said it's delaying its efforts to train the company's large language models LLMs using public content shared by adult users on Facebook and Instagram in the European Union following a request from the Irish Data Protection Commission DPC. The company expressed disappointment at...

FCC Fines Major U.S. Wireless Carriers for Selling Customer Location Data

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission FCC today levied fines totaling nearly $200 million against the four major carriers -- including AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon -- for illegally sharing access to customers location information without consent. The fines mark the culmination of a mor...

Disturbing robocaller fined $9.9 million

A federal court in Montana has fined a man $9.9 million after he was found responsible for causing thousands of unlawful and malicious spoofed robocalls. Sometimes there is good news. Well, for almost everybody except for the robocaller who was found guilty of unlawful robocalls to people in stat...

A Close Up Look at the Consumer Data Broker Radaris

If you live in the United States, the data broker Radaris likely knows a great deal about you, and they are happy to sell what they know to anyone. But how much do we know about Radaris? Publicly available data indicates that in addition to running a dizzying array of people-search websites, the...

New Phishing Kit Leverages SMS, Voice Calls to Target Cryptocurrency Users

A novel phishing kit has been observed impersonating the login pages of well-known cryptocurrency services as part of an attack cluster codenamed CryptoChameleon that's designed to primarily target mobile devices. "This kit enables attackers to build carbon copies of single sign-on SSO pages, the...

JupyterLab vulnerable to potential authentication and CSRF tokens leak

Impact Users of JupyterLab who click on a malicious link may get their Authorization and XSRFToken tokens exposed to a third party when running an older jupyter-server version. Patches JupyterLab 4.1.0b2, 4.0.11, and 3.6.7 were patched. Workarounds No workaround has been identified, however users...

JupyterLab vulnerable to SXSS in Markdown Preview

Impact The vulnerability depends on user interaction by opening a malicious notebook with Markdown cells, or Markdown file using JupyterLab preview feature. A malicious user can access any data that the attacked user has access to as well as perform arbitrary requests acting as the attacked user...

jointoceancommission.org Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3754012

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

TikTok Faces Massive €345 Million Fine Over Child Data Violations in E.U.

The Irish Data Protection Commission DPC slapped TikTok with a €345 million about $368 million fine for violating the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation GDPR in relation to its handling of children's data. The investigation, initiated in September 2021, examined how the popular...

GHSA-R726-VMFQ-J9J3 Open Redirect Vulnerability in jupyter-server

Impact Open Redirect Vulnerability. Maliciously crafted login links to known Jupyter Servers can cause successful login or an already logged-in session to be redirected to arbitrary sites, which should be restricted to Jupyter Server-served URLs. Patches Upgrade to Jupyter Server 2.7.2 Workaround...

GHSA-64X5-55RW-9974 cross-site inclusion (XSSI) of files in jupyter-server

Impact Improper cross-site credential checks on /files/ URLs could allow exposure of certain file contents, or accessing files when opening untrusted files via "Open image in new tab". Patches Jupyter Server 2.7.2 Workarounds Use lower performance...

UK Electoral Commission Hacked

The UK Electoral Commission discovered last year that it was hacked the year before. Thats fourteen months between the hack and the discovery. It doesnt know who was behind the hack. We worked with external security experts and the National Cyber Security Centre to investigate and secure our...

Voter data stolen in UK Electoral Commission systems breach

The UK's Electoral Commission has revealed it suffered a compromise which has the potential to expose aspects of registered voters' data. While much of this data may already be public, there are some privacy and safety concerns to consider. First of all, lets take a look at whats been affected. T...

The vulnerability of the HCI interface, which operates according to the IEC 60870-5-104 standard, and the programmable logic controllers Hitachi Energy RTU500, allows a intruder to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability of the HCI interface, which operates according to the IEC 60870-5-104 standard, in the Hitachi Energy RTU500 programmable logic controllers is related to buffer overflow in the stack. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to cause a service failure...