CVE-2026-54741

Lemmy is a link aggregator and forum for the fediverse. Prior to 0.19.19 and 1.0.0-alpha.18, Lemmy blocks new private messages from a sender after the recipient blocks that sender, but the edit path skips the same block check. createprivatemessage checks the recipient's block list with...

CVE-2026-54741 Lemmy: Blocked users can edit private messages sent before the block

Lemmy is a link aggregator and forum for the fediverse. Prior to 0.19.19 and 1.0.0-alpha.18, Lemmy blocks new private messages from a sender after the recipient blocks that sender, but the edit path skips the same block check. createprivatemessage checks the recipient's block list with...

CVE-2026-54741

In Lemmy (versions before 0.19.19 and 1.0.0-alpha.18), the edit_private_message function in crates/api/api_crud/src/private_message/update.rs only verifies the caller is the original message creator, skipping the recipient block-list check that create_private_message performs. This allows a block...

EUVD-2026-62843

Lemmy is a link aggregator and forum for the fediverse. Prior to 0.19.19 and 1.0.0-alpha.18, Lemmy blocks new private messages from a sender after the recipient blocks that sender, but the edit path skips the same block check. createprivatemessage checks the recipient's block list with...

Please Don’t Feed the Scattered Lapsus ShinyHunters

A prolific data ransom gang that calls itself Scattered Lapsus ShinyHunters SLSH has a distinctive playbook when it seeks to extort payment from victim firms: Harassing, threatening and even swatting executives and their families, all while notifying journalists and regulators about the extent of...

Your Digital Footprint Can Lead Right to Your Front Door

You lock your doors at night. You avoid sketchy phone calls. You're careful about what you post on social media. But what about the information about you that's already out there—without your permission? Your name. Home address. Phone number. Past jobs. Family members. Old usernames. It's all sti...

RUSTSEC-2025-0141 Bincode is unmaintained

Due to a doxxing and harassment incident, the bincode team has taken the decision to cease development permanently. The team considers version 1.3.3 a complete version of bincode that is not in need of any updates. Alternatives to consider wincode postcard bitcode rkyv...

Hack Exposes Kansas City’s Secret Police Misconduct List

A major breach of the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department reveals, for the first time, a list of alleged officer misconduct including dishonesty, sexual harassment, excessive force, and false arrest...

This “insidious” police tech claims to predict crime (Lock and Code S06E18)

This week on the Lock and Code podcast… In the late 2010s, a group of sheriffs out of Pasco County, Florida, believed they could predict crime. The Sheriff’s Department there had piloted a program called “Intelligence-Led Policing” and the program would allegedly analyze disparate points of data ...

BIT-MASTODON-2025-54879 Mastodon e‑mail throttle misconfiguration allows unlimited email confirmations against unconfirmed emails

Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub Mastodon which facilitates LDAP configuration for authentication. In versions 3.1.5 through 4.2.24, 4.3.0 through 4.3.11 and 4.4.0 through 4.4.3, Mastodon's rate-limiting system has a critical configuration error where the...

CVE-2025-54879 Mastodon e‑mail throttle misconfiguration allows unlimited email confirmations against unconfirmed emails

Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub Mastodon which facilitates LDAP configuration for authentication. In versions 3.1.5 through 4.2.24, 4.3.0 through 4.3.11 and 4.4.0 through 4.4.3, Mastodon's rate-limiting system has a critical configuration error where the...

PT-2025-22812 · Schule · Schule

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Schule versions prior to 1.0.1 Description: The issue concerns a lack of proper rate limiting controls in the file forgot password.php, which is responsible for email-based OTP generation. This allows attackers to abuse the OTP request...

Inside the Telegram Groups Doxing Women for Their Facebook Posts

A WIRED investigation goes inside the Telegram groups targeting women who joined “Are We Dating the Same Guy?” groups on Facebook with doxing, harassment, and sharing of nonconsensual intimate images...

TShock allows chat while not fully connected, possible ban evasion

This issue was reported to TShock by @ohayo, but was found by the Discord user by the name of sofurry.com. Please note that this user does not own this domain on the internet, just the discord handle. TShock overrides certain Terraria vanilla systems, including chat, and the connection handling,...

Cyberbullying and the Law: When Does Online Harassment Become a Criminal Offense?

The rise of social media and digital communication has transformed how we connect, but it has also opened…...

She Escaped an Abusive Marriage—Now She Helps Women Battle Cyber Harassment

Inspired by her own experience of abuse, Nighat Dad fights for women’s social and digital rights in Pakistan and beyond...

The Real Problem With Banning Masks at Protests

Privacy advocates worry banning masks at protests will encourage harassment, while cops’ high-tech tools render the rules unnecessary...

San Francisco’s fight against deepfake porn, with City Attorney David Chiu (Lock and Code S05E20)

This week on the Lock and Code podcast … On August 15, the city of San Francisco launched an entirely new fight against the world of deepfake porn—it sued the websites that make the abusive material so easy to create. “Deepfakes,” as they’re often called, are fake images and videos that utilize...

CVE-2024-6331

stitionai/devika main branch as of commit cdfb782b0e634b773b10963c8034dc9207ba1f9f is vulnerable to Local File Read LFI by Prompt Injection. The integration of Google Gimini 1.0 Pro with HarmBlockThreshold.BLOCKNONE for HarmCategory.HARMCATEGORYHATESPEECH and HarmCategory.HARMCATEGORYHARASSMENT i...

PT-2024-37546 · Stitionai +1 · Devika +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: stitionai/devika main branch as of commit cdfb782b0e634b773b10963c8034dc9207ba1f9f stitionai/devika up to version 1.0 Description: The issue concerns a Local File Read LFI vulnerability by Prompt Injection. It is caused by the integration of...