Apple to Scan Every Device for Child Abuse Content — But Experts Fear for Privacy

Apple on Thursday said it's introducing new child safety features in iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and macOS as part of its efforts to limit the spread of Child Sexual Abuse Material CSAM in the U.S. To that effect, the iPhone maker said it intends to begin client-side scanning of images shared via every...

Storing Encrypted Photos in Google’s Cloud

New paper: "Encrypted Cloud Photo Storage Using Google Photos": Abstract: Cloud photo services are widely used for persistent, convenient, and often free photo storage, which is especially useful for mobile devices. As users store more and more photos in the cloud, significant privacy concerns...

Newark Releases Latest Global IoT Trends Report

The latest trend report also said that security concerns negatively impact the adoption of IoT technologies and the growth of Industry 4.0...

Kaseya Patches Zero-Days Used in REvil Attacks

Kaseya made good on its promise to issue patches by July 11. On Saturday, the company behind the Virtual System/Server Administrator VSA platform that got walloped by the REvil ransomware-as-a-service RaaS gang in a massive supply-chain attack released urgent updates to address critical zero-day...

Feds Told to Better Manage Facial Recognition, Amid Privacy Concerns

Though the federal government widely uses facial recognition for various uses from criminal investigations to collecting traveler data, this use is largely unmonitored and unmanaged — a scenario that must change to protect people’s privacy and avoid inaccurate identification of perpetrators, a...

Forblaze - A Python Mac Steganography Payload Generator

Forblaze is a project designed to provide steganography capabilities to Mac OS payloads. Using python3, it will build an Obj-C file for you which will be compiled to pull desired encrypted URLs out of the stego file, fetch payloads over https, and execute them directly into memory. It utilizes...

US Takedown of Iranian Media Sites Extends a Thorny Precedent

Free speech advocates raised concerns after the Justice Department seized more than 30 domains this week...

Privacy compliance for smart meter infrastructure with Microsoft Information Protection and Azure Purview

Smart meters and smart grid infrastructure have been deployed in many of the world’s electric distribution grids. They promise energy conservation, better grid management for utilities, electricity theft reduction, and a host of value-added services for consumers. To deliver on this promise, they...

Privacy compliance for smart meter infrastructure with Microsoft Information Protection and Azure Purview

Smart meters and smart grid infrastructure have been deployed in many of the world’s electric distribution grids. They promise energy conservation, better grid management for utilities, electricity theft reduction, and a host of value-added services for consumers. To deliver on this promise, they...

Amazon Sidewalk Poised to Sweep You Into Its Mesh

Tweet On June 8, Amazon, the Web giant with tentacles reaching into every nook and cranny of our lives, is going to stretch those tentacles out further by turning all its gadgets into little cell towers so they can help each other out with little slices of bandwidth. It’s created a new Wi-Fi...

GHSA-5MV9-Q7FQ-9394 Action Commands (run/shell/exec) Against Library URIs Ignore Configured Remote Endpoint

Impact Due to incorrect use of a default URL, singularity action commands run/shell/exec specifying a container using a library:// URI will always attempt to retrieve the container from the default remote endpoint cloud.sylabs.io rather than the configured remote endpoint. An attacker may be able...

The slow trend away from facial recognition technology

It’s been a busy few weeks for facial recognition technology. Its oft-maligned abilities frequently wind up in tales of privacy invasion, or false positives, or dubious data retention. In fact, it’s not uncommon to see big organisations backing away from how they expect to use it, or indeed deplo...

How Amazon Sidewalk Works—and Why You May Want to Turn It Off

The premise is convenient. But the ecommerce giant’s record on privacy isn't exactly inspiring...

Google's Grand Plan to Eradicate Cookies Is Crumbling

Regulators in the EU and competitors have raised concerns about the company's proposals to rewrite the rules of online advertising...

A week in security (April 19 – 25)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we interviewed Youssef Sammouda, a 21-year-old bug bounty hunter who is focused on finding vulnerabilities on Facebook. We looked into the CodeCov supply-chain attack, the vulnerabilities in Pulse Secure VPN that are being actively exploited by attackers, and the...

Telegram Platform Abused in 'ToxicEye' Malware Campaigns

Hackers are leveraging the popular Telegram messaging app by embedding its code inside a remote access trojan RAT dubbed ToxicEye, new research has found. A victim’s computer infected with the ToxicEye malware is controlled via a hacker-operated Telegram messaging account. The ToxicEye malware ca...

Insecure Session Management

mediawik is vulnerable to insecure session management. The vulnerabilty exists in Special:ResetTokens function because a blocked user might accidentally share the token or might know that a token has been compromised, and yet is not able to block any potential future use of the token by an...

Relax. Internet password books are OK

Passwords are a hot topic on social media at the moment, due to the re-emergence of a discussion about good password management practices. There’s a wealth of password management options available, some more desirable than others. The primary recommendation online is usually a software-based...

Replacing EDR/NGAV with Autonomous XDR Makes a Big Difference for Small Security Teams

The attack surface is virtually expanding before our eyes. Protecting assets across multiple locations, with multiple solutions from different vendors, has become a daily concern for CISOs globally. In a new e-book recently published download here, CISOs with small security teams talk about the...

Is Your Browser Extension a Botnet Backdoor?

A company that rents out access to more than 10 million Web browsers so that clients can hide their true Internet addresses has built its network by paying browser extension makers to quietly include its code in their creations. This story examines the lopsided economics of extension development,...