CVE-2021-24730

CVE-2021-24730 affects the WordPress plugin “Logo Showcase with Slick Slider” prior to version 1.2.5. The issue is an absence of CSRF and authorization checks in the lswss_save_attachment_data AJAX action, allowing any authenticated user (e.g., Subscriber) to modify title, description, alt text, ...

Using Disinformation to Cause a Blackout

Interesting paper: "How weaponizing disinformation can bring down a city's power grid": Abstract: Social media has made it possible to manipulate the masses via disinformation and fake news at an unprecedented scale. This is particularly alarming from a security perspective, as humans have proven...

Repurposing Neural Networks to Generate Synthetic Media for Information Operations

FireEye’s Data Science and Information Operations Analysis teams released this blog post to coincide with our Black Hat USA 2020 Briefing, which details how open source, pre-trained neural networks can be leveraged to generate synthetic media for malicious purposes. To summarize our presentation,...

Breaking Down Election Security: Points of Vulnerability and Solutions

The importance of cybersecurity in the context of the democratic process has become undeniable—with nation-state hackers setting their sights on elections as effective vehicles for attack, disruption, and social unrest. Christopher Wray, the Director of the FBI, testified to Congress that U.S...

Elections Globally Are Under Threat. Here's How to Protect Them

A new report calls for safeguards to reduce the dangers posed by misinformation, online extremism, and social media manipulation...

Artificial Personas and Public Discourse

Presidential campaign season is officially, officially, upon us now, which means it's time to confront the weird and insidious ways in which technology is warping politics. One of the biggest threats on the horizon: artificial personas are coming, and they're poised to take over political debate...

A Feminist Take on Information Privacy

Maria Farrell has a really interesting framing of information/device privacy: What our smartphones and relationship abusers share is that they both exert power over us in a world shaped to tip the balance in their favour, and they both work really, really hard to obscure this fact and keep us...

Facebook Removes 17 Profiles Involved in Political Meddling

Facebook Tuesday said that it has removed 32 pages from its platform involved in “coordinated inauthentic behavior.” The action comes months before the November midterm elections – and at a time when all eyes are on Facebook to see how it protects against potential campaigns attempting to sway...

Design/Logic Flaw

A use-after-free vulnerability can occur when manipulating HTML media elements with media streams, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird 52.6, Firefox ESR 52.6, and Firefox 58...

Free online movie crack((latest technologies)-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Actually slightly understand a little web of friends all know to hack movies online is the best way to put pages saved, and then use the page editing software will save the page to open, and then figure out where the url links can be This is obviously a very good way, but also there is no matter...