Pavel Durov Criticizes Outdated Laws After Arrest Over Telegram Criminal Activity

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has broken his silence nearly two weeks after his arrest in France, stating the charges are misguided. "If a country is unhappy with an internet service, the established practice is to start a legal action against the service itself," Durov said in a 600-word statement on...

Police Chiefs Call for Solutions to Access Encrypted Data in Serious Crime Cases

European Police Chiefs said that the complementary partnership between law enforcement agencies and the technology industry is at risk due to end-to-end encryption E2EE. They called on the industry and governments to take urgent action to ensure public safety across social media platforms. "Priva...

TikTok facing fines for violating children’s privacy

The European Data Protection Board is expected to fine TikTok for violating the privacy of young children within the next four weeks. The European Data Protection Board said a binding decision has been reached over TikTok's processing of childrens data, after the ByteDance-owned app submitted leg...

Apple Expands Its On-Device Nudity Detection to Combat CSAM

Instead of scanning iCloud for illegal content, Apple’s tech will locally flag inappropriate images for kids. And adults are getting an opt-in nudes filter too...

Two Supreme Court cases could change the Internet as we know it

The Supreme Court is about to reconsider Section 230, a law thats been the foundation of the way we have used the Internet for decades. The court will be handling a few cases that at first glance are about online platforms' liability for hosting accounts from foreign terrorists. But at a deeper...

Criminals using compromised social media accounts to "post indecent images of children" says UK cybercrime organization

Action Fraud, the UK's national reporting center for fraud and cybercrime, is warning of a very disturbing scam involving social media and "indecent images of children." Details are light, but social media fans should take this as a warning to lock down their accounts immediately...

Why torrenting on Elon Musk’s Starlink is not a good idea?

By Waqas Starlink sends piracy warnings to users urging them to avoid downloading any illegal content by using their service. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Why torrenting on Elon Musks Starlink is not a good idea?...

FBI shuts down malware on hundreds of Exchange servers, opens Pandora’s box

A rather remarkable story has emerged, setting the scene for lively debates about permissible system access. A press release from the US Department of Justice Judge has revealed that the FBI were granted permission to perform some tech support backdoor removal. Bizarrely, they did this without...

Illegal Content and the Blockchain

Security researchers have recently discovered a botnet with a novel defense against takedowns. Normally, authorities can disable a botnet by taking over its command-and-control server. With nowhere to go for instructions, the botnet is rendered useless. But over the years, botnet designers have...

Add From Server < 3.3.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

An attacker can use this issue to add illegal content to the victims server, or add very large files to the victim's server to exhaust the amount of available disk space...

Slack: Open Redirect on slack.com

Hi, my report has tow interesting parts here First ====== In this report 104087 the attacker uploads a svg file to execute JavaScript and redirect to any domain I have found a new way to execute full html files on victim machine instead of downloading them by adding a bunch of binary chars before...

Shopify: Arbitrary write on s3://shopify-delivery-app-storage/files

Short ==== The policy used to upload files via the Delivery app is too generic which results in an arbitrary write and replace of files in the files/ directory. Disclaimer: While I was unable to create a second store to fully test this I can't create new development stores right now, support is...

The Pirate Bay Founders Free Of Criminal Copyright Case

The four co-founders of The Pirate Bay, the world’s most popular torrent website, have been cleared of charges alleging criminal copyright infringement and abuse of electronic communications in a Belgian court. The Pirate Bay co-founders Gottfrid Svartholm, Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Carl...

Onion.City — Search Engine for Deep Web that Works From Normal Web Browser

There is an entire section of the Internet that you probably don’t see on daily basis, it’s called the "Darknet" or "Deep Web", where all browsing is done anonymously. About a week ago, we reported about the 'Memex' Deep Web Search Engine, a Defense Advance Research Projects Agency DARPA project ...