Google will start deleting location history

Google announced that it will reduce the amount of personal data it is storing by automatically deleting old data from "Timeline"—the feature that, previously named "Location History," tracks user routes and trips based on a phone’s location, allowing people to revisit all the places theyve been ...

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A week in security (May 27 – June 2)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Data leak site BreachForums is back, boasting Live Nation/Ticketmaster user data. But is it a trap? The Ticketmaster "breach"—what you need to know Ticketmaster confirms customer data breach How to tell if a VPN app added your Windows device to a botnet Beware of...

PT-2024-29161

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description The issue is related to a bug in the x86/kexec component of the Linux kernel, where the call to cc platform has triggers a fault and system crash if call depth tracking is active. This...

CVE-2024-35196

Sentry is a developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring platform. Sentry's Slack integration incorrectly records the incoming request body in logs. This request data can contain sensitive information, including the deprecated Slack verification token. With this verification token, i...

Researchers Uncover Active Exploitation of WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Cybersecurity researchers have warned that multiple high-severity security vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins are being actively exploited by threat actors to create rogue administrator accounts for follow-on exploitation. "These vulnerabilities are found in various WordPress plugins and are...

How to turn off location tracking on iOS and iPadOS

On iOS and iPadOS, location services are typically turned on when you first set up your device. However, there may be reasons why you don’t want your device to be located, perhaps because you don’t want to be found but need to keep the device with you. There are a few options to hide your locatio...

How to turn off location tracking on Android

Android devices come with location services. Some apps need access to location services to function properly. However, there may be reasons why you don’t want your device to be located, often because you don’t want to be found and the device is always with you. Depending on who you are trying to...

Privacy Implications of Tracking Wireless Access Points

Brian Krebs reports on research into geolocating routers: Apple and the satellite-based broadband service Starlink each recently took steps to address new research into the potential security and privacy implications of how their services geolocate devices. Researchers from the University of...

SUSE CVE-2021-47407

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: x86: Handle SRCU initialization failure during page track init Check the return of initsrcustruct, which can fail due to OOM, when initializing the page track mechanism. Lack of checking leads to a NULL pointer deref found b...

SUSE CVE-2021-47449

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ice: fix locking for Tx timestamp tracking flush Commit 4dd0d5c33c3e "ice: add lock around Tx timestamp tracker flush" added a lock around the Tx timestamp tracker flow which is used to cleanup any left over SKBs and prepare for...

CVE-2021-47514 devlink: fix netns refcount leak in devlink_nl_cmd_reload()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: devlink: fix netns refcount leak in devlinknlcmdreload While preparing my patch series adding netns refcount tracking, I spotted bugs in devlinknlcmdreload Some error paths forgot to release a refcount on a netns. To fix this, we...

Apple and Google are taking steps to curb the abuse of location-tracking devices — but what about others?

Since the advent of products like the Tile and Apple AirTag, both used to keep track of easily lost items like wallets, keys and purses, bad actors and criminals have found ways to abuse them. These adversaries can range from criminals just looking to do something illegal for a range of reasons,...

xorg-x11-server security update

1.20.4-24 - Fix use after free related to CVE-2024-21886 1.20.11-21 - CVE fix for: CVE-2023-6816, CVE-2024-0229, CVE-2024-21885, CVE-2024-21886, CVE-2024-0408 and CVE-2024-0409 Resolves: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-21207 Resolves: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-20528 Resolves:...

DEBIAN-CVE-2021-47449

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ice: fix locking for Tx timestamp tracking flush Commit 4dd0d5c33c3e "ice: add lock around Tx timestamp tracker flush" added a lock around the Tx timestamp tracker flow which is used to cleanup any left over SKBs and prepare for...

CVE-2021-47449 ice: fix locking for Tx timestamp tracking flush

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ice: fix locking for Tx timestamp tracking flush Commit 4dd0d5c33c3e "ice: add lock around Tx timestamp tracker flush" added a lock around the Tx timestamp tracker flow which is used to cleanup any left over SKBs and prepare for...

Why Your Wi-Fi Router Doubles as an Apple AirTag

Image: Shutterstock. Apple and the satellite-based broadband service Starlink each recently took steps to address new research into the potential security and privacy implications of how their services geo-locate devices. Researchers from the University of Maryland say they relied on publicly...

UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52782

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5e: Track xmit submission to PTP WQ after populating metadata map Ensure the skb is available in metadata mapping to skbs before tracking the metadata index for detecting undelivered CQEs. If the metadata index is put in t...

DEBIAN-CVE-2021-47412

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: block: don't call rqqosops-donebio if the bio isn't tracked rqqos framework is only applied on request based driver, so: 1 rqqosdonebio needn't to be called for bio based driver 2 rqqosdonebio needn't to be called for bio which...

DEBIAN-CVE-2021-47407

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: x86: Handle SRCU initialization failure during page track init Check the return of initsrcustruct, which can fail due to OOM, when initializing the page track mechanism. Lack of checking leads to a NULL pointer deref found b...