Encrypted Federated Search Using Homomorphic Encryption

The sharing of information between agencies is effective in dealing with cross-jurisdictional criminal activities; however, such sharing is often restricted due to concerns about data privacy, ownership, and compliance. Towards this end, this work has introduced a privacy-preserving federated...

Capability-Based Multi-Tenant Access Management in Crowdsourced Drone Services

We propose a capability-based access control method that leverages OAuth 2.0 and Verifiable Credentials VCs to share resources in crowdsourced drone services. VCs securely encode claims about entities, offering flexibility. However, standardized protocols for VCs are lacking, limiting their...

The DCR Delusion: Measuring the Privacy Risk of Synthetic Data

Synthetic data has become an increasingly popular way to share data without revealing sensitive information. Though Membership Inference Attacks MIAs are widely considered the gold standard for empirically assessing the privacy of a synthetic dataset, practitioners and researchers often rely on...

Federated One-Shot Learning with Data Privacy and Objective-Hiding

Privacy in federated learning is crucial, encompassing two key aspects: safeguarding the privacy of clients' data and maintaining the privacy of the federator's objective from the clients. While the first aspect has been extensively studied, the second has received much less attention. We present...

SONNI: Secure Oblivious Neural Network Inference

In the standard privacy-preserving Machine learning as-a-service MLaaS model, the client encrypts data using homomorphic encryption and uploads it to a server for computation. The result is then sent back to the client for decryption. It has become more and more common for the computation to be...

Blue Shield Leaked Millions of Patient Info to Google for Years

Blue Shield of California exposed the health data of 4.7 million members to Google for years due to…...

AiXamine: Simplified LLM Safety and Security

Evaluating Large Language Models LLMs for safety and security remains a complex task, often requiring users to navigate a fragmented landscape of ad hoc benchmarks, datasets, metrics, and reporting formats. To address this challenge, we present aiXamine, a comprehensive black-box evaluation...

Protecting Your Business on the Move: A Modern Cybersecurity Guide

Stay secure on the move. Protect your devices, data, and privacy with smart habits, reliable gear, updated software…...

webkitgtk: A malicious website may exfiltrate data cross-origin

A flaw was found in WebKitGTK. A malicious website may exfiltrate data cross-origin due to a cookie management issue related to improper state management...

CVE-2025-3082 User may override a view's collation and gain unauthorized access to underlying data

A user authorized to access a view may be able to alter the intended collation, allowing them to access to a different or unintended view of underlying data. This issue affects MongoDB Server v5.0 version prior to 5.0.31, MongoDB Server v6.0 version prior to 6.0.20, MongoDB Server v7.0 version...

New Report Explains Why CASB Solutions Fail to Address Shadow SaaS and How to Fix It

Whether it's CRMs, project management tools, payment processors, or lead management tools - your workforce is using SaaS applications by the pound. Organizations often rely on traditional CASB solutions for protecting against malicious access and data exfiltration, but these fall short for...

How to Delete Your Data From 23andMe

DNA-testing company 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy, which means the future of the company’s vast trove of customer data is unknown. Here’s what that means for your genetic data...

1 in 10 people do nothing to stay secure and private on vacation

This year, Spring Break vacationers are packing more than their flip-flops, bucket hats, and sunglasses—they’re also packing a few cybersecurity anxieties for the trip. According to new research from Malwarebytes, 52% of people said they “worry about being scammed while traveling,” while another...

LF Edge eKuiper allows Stored XSS in Rules Functionality

Summary Stored Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability allows attackers to inject malicious scripts into web applications, which can then be executed in the context of other users' browsers. This can lead to unauthorized access to sensitive information, session hijacking, and spreading of malware,...

GHSA-6HRW-X7PR-4MP8 LF Edge eKuiper allows Stored XSS in Rules Functionality

Summary Stored Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability allows attackers to inject malicious scripts into web applications, which can then be executed in the context of other users' browsers. This can lead to unauthorized access to sensitive information, session hijacking, and spreading of malware,...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-57912

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - iio: pressure: zpa2326: fix information leak in triggered buffer The 'sample' local struct is used to push data to user space from a triggered buffer, but it ha...

A week in security (February 24 – March 2)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Millions of stalkerware users exposed again PayPal’s "no-code checkout" abused by scammers Countries and companies are fighting at the expense of our data privacy Roblox called "real-life nightmare for children" as Roblox and Discord sued Android happy to check you...

Countries and companies are fighting at the expense of our data privacy

Data privacy issues are a hot topic in a world where we apparently don’t know who to trust anymore. A few weeks ago, we reported how the UK had secretly ordered Apple to provide blanket access to protected cloud backups around the world. This week, Apple decided to pull the plug on Advanced Data...

Surveillance pricing is “evil and sinister,” explains Justin Kloczko (Lock and Code S06E04)

This week on the Lock and Code podcast … Insurance pricing in America makes a lot of sense so long as you’re one of the insurance companies. Drivers are charged more for traveling long distances, having low credit, owning a two-seater instead of a four, being on the receiving end of a car crash,...

jquery: Untrusted code execution via <option> tag in HTML passed to DOM manipulation methods

A flaw was found in jQuery. HTML containing \ elements from untrusted sources are passed, even after sanitizing, to one of jQuery's DOM manipulation methods, which may execute untrusted code. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity...