Characterizing Security and Privacy Teaching Standards for Schools in the United States

Increasingly, students begin learning aspects of security and privacy during their primary and secondary education grades K-12 in the United States. Individual U.S. states and some national organizations publish teaching standards -- guidance that outlines expectations for what students should...

Millions of people spied on by malicious browser extensions in Chrome and Edge

Researchers have discovered a campaign that tracked users’ online behavior using 18 browser extensions available in the official Chrome and Edge webstores. The total number of installs is estimated to be over two million. These extensions offered functionality, received good reviews, touted...

Sextortion email scammers increase their “Hello pervert” money demands

Every so often the sextortion emails that start with “Hello pervert” get a redesign. You may have received one yourself: The emails claim that the sender has been watching your online behavior and caught you red-handed doing activities that you would like to keep private. The email usually starts...

Web tracking report: who monitored users’ online activities in 2023–2024 the most

Web tracking has become a pervasive aspect of our online experience. Whether we're browsing social media, playing video games, shopping for products, or simply reading news articles, trackers are silently monitoring our online behavior, fueling the ceaseless hum of countless data centers worldwid...

CVE-2024-36888 workqueue: Fix selection of wake_cpu in kick_pool()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: workqueue: Fix selection of wakecpu in kickpool With cpupossiblemask=0-63 and cpuonlinemask=0-7 the following kernel oops was observed: smp: Bringing up secondary CPUs ... smp: Brought up 1 node, 8 CPUs Unable to handle kernel...

CVE-2023-42406

SQL injection vulnerability in D-Link Online behavior audit gateway DAR-7000 V31R02B1413C allows a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information and execute arbitrary code via the editrole.php component...

Sql injection

SQL injection vulnerability in D-Link Online behavior audit gateway DAR-7000 V31R02B1413C allows a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information and execute arbitrary code via the editrole.php component...

CVE-2023-42406

CVE-2023-42406 affects D-Link DAR-7000 Online Behavior Audit Gateway (V31R02B1413C). The vulnerability is an SQL injection in the editrole.php component that allows a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information and execute arbitrary code. CVSS-3.1 vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/...

CVE-2023-44693

D-Link Online behavior audit gateway DAR-7000 V31R02B1413C is vulnerable to SQL Injection via /importexport.php...

CVE-2023-44693

D-Link DAR-7000 Online Behavior Audit Gateway (model DAR-7000, version V31R02B1413C) is reported vulnerable to SQL injection via the importexport.php endpoint. The CVE-2023-44693 entry identifies the vulnerability as a SQL injection in importexport.php, with the impacted device exposing a high-se...

This Chatbot Aims to Steer People Away From Child Abuse Material

Pornhub is trialing a new automated tool that pushes CSAM-searchers to seek help for their online behavior. Will it work?...

Command Execution Vulnerability in RG-UAC Ruijie Unified Online Behavior Management and Audit System

The RG-UAC Ruijie Unified Online Behavior Management and Audit System has a command execution vulnerability that can be exploited by attackers to gain control of the server...

Teaching Cybersecurity to Children

A new draft of an Australian educational curriculum proposes teaching children as young as five cybersecurity: The proposed curriculum aims to teach five-year-old children -- an age at which Australian kids first attend school -- not to share information such as date of birth or full names with...

FBI Releases Article on Think Before You Post Campaign

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has released an article on their Think Before You Post campaign, designed to educate students on the use of social media and how to avoid making poor choices when posting, texting, or emailing thoughts or grievances that could lead to disruptive behavior,...

Internet Safety Month: How to manage your child’s online presence

When you hear the term "reputation risk management," you might think of a buzzword used in the business sector. Reputation risk management is a term used to describe how companies identify potential risks that may harm their reputation and mitigate them before they blow off. As companies grow, so...

Little Change in Online Behavior Following Snowden Revelations

Some 30 percent of American adults say they have altered their digital behavior in the wake of Edward Snowden’s NSA spying revelations in order to hide information from the government. In Spring 2013, Snowden, a then NSA contractor working for Booz Allen Hamilton, remotely accessed the NSA’s Ft...

Your TV now watching you too! LG Smart TV caught collecting owners' Habits and USB file names

Now your TV is also watching you, and is smart enough to spy on you. A UK blogger, developer and Linux enthusiast, known only as DoctorBeet has discovered that LG's smart TVs are sending personal information back to the company's servers about what channels you watch and viewing habits. Actually,...

Study Shows One in Four Who Receive Data Breach Letter Become Fraud Victims

A study released Wednesday shows one in four consumers who receive a data breach letter become the victim of identity fraud. That statistic represented 12.6 million victims last year — one million more than the year before, according to the 2013 Identity Fraud Report released by Javelin Strategy ...

Survey Shows Consumers Still Openly Risking ID Theft

A new survey conducted by a credit card comparison Web site indicates consumers continue to be lax when it comes to guarding against identity theft. Users may not be able to prevent leaks such as today’s disclosure of 6.5 million stolen LinkedIn passwords, but they are still engaging in their own...