Your location or browsing habits could lead to price increases when buying online

Companies are showing customers different prices for the same goods and services based what data they have on them, including details like their precise location or browser history. The name for this method is surveillance pricing, and the FTC has just released initial findings of a report lookin...

Insurance company accused of using secret software to illegally collect and sell location data on millions of Americans

Insurance company Allstate and its subsidiary Arity unlawfully collected, used, and sold data about the location and movement of Texans’ cell phones through secretly embedded software in mobile apps, according to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Attorney General Paxton says the companies didn't...

CISA: Protecting Patrons during the Holiday Shopping Season Fact Sheet

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US Cyber Trust Mark logo for smart devices is coming

The White House announced the launch of the US Cyber Trust Mark which aims to help buyers make an informed choice about the purchase of wireless internet-connected devices, such as baby monitors, doorbells, thermostats, and more. The cybersecurity labeling program for wireless consumer Internet o...

Dental group lied through teeth about data breach, fined $350,000

A US chain of dental offices known as Westend Dental LLC denied a 2020 ransomware attack and its associated data breach, instead telling their customers that data was lost due to an “accidentally formatted hard drive.” Unfortunately for the organization, the truth was found out. Westend Dental...

SUSE CVE-2022-49035

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: s5pcec: limit msg.len to CECMAXMSGSIZE I expect that the hardware will have limited this to 16, but just in case it hasn't, check for this corner case...

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Top US Consumer Watchdog Has a Plan to Fight Predatory Data Brokers

A new proposal by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would use a 54-year-old privacy law to impose new oversight of the data broker industry. But first, the agency must survive Elon Musk...

An air fryer, a ring, and a vacuum get brought into a home. What they take out is your data (Lock and Code S05E24)

This week on the Lock and Code podcast… The month, a consumer rights group out of the UK posed a question to the public that they’d likely never considered: Were their air fryers spying on them? By analyzing the associated Android apps for three separate air fryer models from three different...

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...

kernel: use-after-free in cec_queue_msg_fh

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel. A use-after-free exists in cecqueuemsgfh, related to drivers/media/cec/core/cec-adap.c and drivers/media/cec/core/cec-api.c...

Europol warns about counterfeit goods and the criminals behind them

With the holidays around the bend, many are looking for gifts for their family and friends. And since we somehow decided we want to give more each time, we’re also looking for good deals. But European law enforcement agency Europol issued a warning about buying fake goods. Sure, they are cheaper,...

CVE-2024-45334

Trend Micro Antivirus One versions 3.10.4 and below Consumer is vulnerable to an Arbitrary Configuration Update that could allow unauthorized access to product configurations and functions...

CVE-2024-45334: Improper Access Control

Trend Micro Antivirus One versions 3.10.4 and below Consumer is vulnerable to an Arbitrary Configuration Update that could allow unauthorized access to product configurations and functions...

SUSE CVE-2024-47675

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix use-after-free in bpfuprobemultilinkattach If bpflinkprime fails, bpfuprobemultilinkattach goes to the errorfree label and frees the array of bpfuprobe's without calling bpfuprobeunregister. This leaks bpfuprobe-uprobe a...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47675

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix use-after-free in bpfuprobemultilinkattach If bpflinkprime fails, bpfuprobemultilinkattach goes to the errorfree label and frees the array of bpfuprobe's without calling bpfuprobeunregister. This leaks bpfuprobe-uprobe a...

powerpc/qspinlock: Fix deadlock in MCS queue

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Fake Trading Apps Target Victims Globally via Apple App Store and Google Play

A large-scale fraud campaign leveraged fake trading apps published on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, as well as phishing sites, to defraud victims, per findings from Group-IB. The campaign is part of a consumer investment fraud scheme that's also widely known as pig butchering, in whi...

USN-7007-3 linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15 vulnerabilities

Chenyuan Yang discovered that the CEC driver driver in the Linux kernel contained a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2024-23848 Chenyuan Yang discovered that the USB Gadget subsystem in...