CVE-2026-22246 Local Mastodon users can enumerate and access severed relationships of every other local user

Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub. Mastodon 4.3 added notifications of severed relationships, allowing end-users to inspect the relationships they lost as the result of a moderation action. The code allowing users to download lists of severed relationships...

Fake ChatGPT and DeepSeek Extensions Spied on Over 1 Million Chrome Users

Security researchers have identified two malicious Chrome extensions recording AI chats. Learn how to identify and remove these tools to protect your privacy...

Lego’s Smart Bricks explained: what they do, and what they don’t

Lego just made what it claims is its most important product release since it introduced minifigures in 1978. No, it's not yet another brand franchise. It's a computer in a brick. Called the Smart Brick , it's part of a broader system called Smart Play that Lego hopes will revolutionize your child...

USN-7946-1: GnuPG vulnerability

It was discovered that GnuPG incorrectly handled crafted input. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to crash the program, or execute arbitrary code...

CVE-2025-13679 Tutor LMS <= 3.9.3 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Sensitive Information Exposure via tutor_order_details

The Tutor LMS – eLearning and online course solution plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the getorderbyid function in all versions up to, and including, 3.9.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with...

OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health with Isolated, Encrypted Health Data Controls

Artificial intelligence AI company OpenAI on Wednesday announced the launch of ChatGPT Health, a dedicated space that allows users to have conversations with the chatbot about their health. To that end, the sandboxed experience offers users the optional ability to securely connect medical records...

Knowledge-To-Data: LLM-Driven Synthesis of Structured Network Traffic for Testbed-Free IDS Evaluation

Realistic, large-scale, and well-labeled cybersecurity datasets are essential for training and evaluating Intrusion Detection Systems IDS. However, they remain difficult to obtain due to privacy constraints, data sensitivity, and the cost of building controlled collection environments such as...

Spree API has Unauthenticated IDOR - Guest Address

Summary An Unauthenticated Insecure Direct Object Reference IDOR vulnerability was identified that allows an unauthenticated attacker to access guest address information without supplying valid credentials or session cookies. Details During testing, it was observed that all guest users can make a...

CVE-1999-0608

An incorrect configuration of the PDG Shopping Cart CGI program "shopper.cgi" could disclose private information...

CVE-2019-16752

An issue was discovered in Decentralized Anonymous Payment System DAPS through 2019-08-26. It is possible to force wallets to send HTTP requests to arbitrary locations, both on the local network and on the internet. This is a serious threat to user privacy, since it can possibly leak their IP...

CVE-2025-1322

The WP-Recall – Registration, Profile, Commerce & More plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 16.26.10 via the 'feed' shortcode due to insufficient restrictions on which posts can be included. This makes it possible for unauthenticated...

Disney fined $10m for mislabeling kids’ YouTube videos and violating privacy law

Disney will pay a $10m settlement over allegations that it violated kids' privacy rights, the Federal Trade Commission FTC said this week. The agreement, first proposed in September 2025, resolves a dispute over Disney's labeling of child-targeted content on YouTube. The thousands of YouTube vide...

A Critical Analysis of the Medibank Health Data Breach and Differential Privacy Solutions

This paper critically examines the 2022 Medibank health insurance data breach, which exposed sensitive medical records of 9.7 million individuals due to unencrypted storage, centralized access, and the absence of privacy-preserving analytics. To address these vulnerabilities, we propose an...

Disney Fined $10M for Violating Children’s Privacy Laws on YouTube

Disney agrees to a $10M settlement with the DOJ and FTC over YouTube privacy violations. Learn how the COPPA ruling affects kids' data and Disney's new rules...

Rethinking Secure Semantic Communications in the Age of Generative and Agentic AI: Threats and Opportunities

Semantic communication SemCom improves communication efficiency by transmitting task-relevant information instead of raw bits and is expected to be a key technology for 6G networks. Recent advances in generative AI GenAI further enhance SemCom by enabling robust semantic encoding and decoding und...

8 WhatsApp Features to Boost Your Security and Privacy

Meta’s end-to-end encrypted messaging app is used by billions of people. Here’s how to make sure you’re one of the most locked-down ones out there...

Security in the Era of Perceptive Networks: A Comprehensive Taxonomic Framework for Integrated Sensing and Communication Security

Integrated Sensing and Communication ISAC represents a significant shift in the 6G landscape, where wireless networks both sense the environment and communicate. While prior comprehensive surveys have established foundational elements of ISAC security, discussed perception-focused security models...

Comparative Evaluation of VAE, GAN, and SMOTE for Tor Detection in Encrypted Network Traffic

Encrypted network traffic poses significant challenges for intrusion detection due to the lack of payload visibility, limited labeled datasets, and high class imbalance between benign and malicious activities. Traditional data augmentation methods struggle to preserve the complex temporal and...

Flock Exposes Its AI-Enabled Surveillance Cameras

404 Media has the story: Unlike many of Flock's cameras, which are designed to capture license plates as people drive by, Flock's Condor cameras are pan-tilt-zoom PTZ cameras designed to record and track people, not vehicles. Condor cameras can be set to automatically zoom in on people's faces as...

GNU Privacy Guard 2.4.9

GnuPG the GNU Privacy Guard or GPG is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage. It can be used to encrypt data and to create digital signatures. It includes an advanced key management facility and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard as described in RFC2440. As suc...