CVE-2025-2498 Insufficient Granularity of Access Control in GitLab

An improper access control in Gitlab EE affecting all versions from 12.0 prior to 18.0.6, 18.1 prior to 18.1.4, and 18.2 prior to 18.2.2 that under certain conditions could have allowed users to view assigned issues from restricted groups by bypassing IP restrictions...

Iran’s Internet Blackout Adds New Dangers for Civilians Amid Israeli Bombings

Iran is limiting internet connectivity for citizens amid Israeli airstrikes—pushing people towards domestic apps, which may not be secure, and limiting their ability to access vital information...

Top Trump Officials’ Passwords and Personal Phone Numbers Discovered Online

Plus: Alleged Snowflake hacker will be extradited to US, internet restrictions create an information vacuum in Myanmar, and London gets its first permanent face recognition cameras...

VPN Usage Increased 5016% in Bangladesh Amidst Online Censorship

VPN demand skyrockets in Bangladesh due to internet restrictions. Learn about the global impact of VPNs on internet…...

WhatsApp Upgrades Proxy Feature Against Internet Shutdowns

Meta's WhatsApp has rolled out updates to its proxy feature, allowing more flexibility in the kind of content that can be shared in conversations. This includes the ability to send and receive images, voice notes, files, stickers and GIFs, WhatsApp told The Hacker News. The new features were firs...

VPNs are mainstream, which is good news

Virtual private networks VPNs have been growing in popularity for the last three years, a notable trend revealed in a collaborative report PDF by Top10VPN and GlobalWebIndex. This year is no different. When a majority of the world’s internet users are in isolation due to the COVID-19 global...

Apple removes VPN Apps from the China App Store

In order to comply with Chinese censorship law, Apple has started removing all virtual private network VPN apps from the App Store in China, making it harder for internet users to bypass its Great Firewall. VPN service providers that provide services in China has accused the United States tech...

Anonymous hacks 500 Chinese websites

Anonymous hacks 500 Chinese websites Messages by the international hacking group Anonymous went up on a number of Chinese government websites on Thursday to protest internet restrictions. "Dear Chinese Government, you are not infallible, today websites are hacked, tomorrow it will be your vile...

Breakthrough LAN on the Internet users some of the limitations-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

May now LAN online network user restrictions, such as not on some website, can't play certain games, not on MSN, port restrictions, etc., generally is through a proxy server on the software to be limiting, as will now talk about most of the ISA Server 2 0 0 4, or through hardware blank" the...