Online Safety Regulation Increases Privacy Risk: Evidence from the UK Online Safety Act

Governments worldwide are increasingly regulating digital platforms to reduce online harms, particularly those affecting children. However, access restrictions can alter user behaviour and introduce new privacy and security risks. The UK Online Safety Act OSA, passed in October 2023, illustrates...

[SECURITY] Fedora 43 Update: NetworkManager-1.54.3-2.fc43

NetworkManager is a system service that manages network interfaces and connections based on user or automatic configuration. It supports Ethernet, Bridge, Bond, VLAN, Team, InfiniBand, Wi-Fi, mobile broadband WWAN, PPPoE and other devices, and supports a variety of different VPN services...

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CVE-2024-20355

A vulnerability in the implementation of SAML 2.0 single sign-on SSO for remote access VPN services in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance ASA Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense FTD Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to successfully establish a VPN session on an affecte...

The evolution and abuse of proxy networks

As long as we've had the internet, users have tried to obfuscate how and what they are connecting to. In some cases, this is to work around restrictions put in place by governments or a desire to access content that is not otherwise available in a given region. This is why technologies like VPNs...

Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

The homepage of Stark Industries Solutions. Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks on government a...

CVE-2024-29209

A medium severity vulnerability has been identified in the update mechanism of the Phish Alert Button for Outlook, which could allow an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code on the host machine. The vulnerability arises from the application's failure to securely verify the authenticity and...

Tech CEO Sentenced to 5 Years in IP Address Scheme

Amir Golestan, the 40-year-old CEO of the Charleston, S.C. based technology company Micfo LLC, has been sentenced to five years in prison for wire fraud. Golestans sentencing comes nearly two years after he pleaded guilty to using an elaborate network of phony companies to secure more than 735,00...

Yifan YF325 libutils.so nvram_restore stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability

Talos Vulnerability Report TALOS-2023-1763 Yifan YF325 libutils.so nvramrestore stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability October 11, 2023 CVE Number CVE-2023-34365 SUMMARY A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the libutils.so nvramrestore functionality of Yifan YF325 v1.020221108...

Facebook Detects 400 Android and iOS Apps Stealing Users Log-in Credentials

Meta Platforms on Friday disclosed that it had identified over 400 malicious apps on Android and iOS that it said targeted online users with the goal of stealing their Facebook login information. "These apps were listed on the Google Play Store and Apple's App Store and disguised as photo editors...

A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

The 911 service as it exists today. For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe -- but...

People’s Republic of China State-Sponsored Cyber Actors Exploit Network Providers and Devices

Summary Best Practices • Apply patches as soon as possible • Disable unnecessary ports and protocols • Replace end-of-life infrastructure • Implement a centralized patch management system This joint Cybersecurity Advisory describes the ways in which People’s Republic of China PRC state-sponsored...

NetworkManager bug fix and enhancement update

NetworkManager is a system network service that manages network devices and connections, attempting to keep active network connectivity when available. Its capabilities include managing Ethernet, wireless, mobile broadband WWAN, and PPPoE devices, as well as providing VPN integration with a varie...

Russia bans VyprVPN, Opera VPN services for not complying with blacklist request

Russia's telecommunications and media regulator Roskomnadzor RKN on Thursday introduced restrictions on the operation of VyprVPN and Opera VPN services in the country. "In accordance with the regulation on responding to threats to circumvent restrictions on access to child pornography, suicidal,...

[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: NetworkManager-1.22.14-1.fc32

NetworkManager is a system service that manages network interfaces and connections based on user or automatic configuration. It supports Ethernet, Bridge, Bond, VLAN, Team, InfiniBand, Wi-Fi, mobile broadband WWAN, PPPoE and other devices, and supports a variety of different VPN services...

Alleged Member of Neo-Nazi Swatting Group Charged

Federal investigators on Friday arrested a Virginia man accused of being part of a neo-Nazi group that targeted hundreds of people in "swatting" attacks, wherein fake bomb threats, hostage situations and other violent scenarios were phoned in to police as part of a scheme to trick them into...

Cellular networks under fire from Soft Cell attacks

We place a lot of trust in our mobile experience, given they’re one of the most constant companions we have. Huge reams of data, tied to a device we always carry with us, with said device frequently offering additional built-in app functionality. An astonishing wealth of information, for anyone...

China Blocks Microsoft's Bing Search Engine, Despite Offering Censored Results

Update: Microsoft's search engine Bing has been restored in China after being inaccessible in the country for almost two days. According to sources familiar with the matter, Bing was blocked due to an accidental technical error and not due to an attempt at censorship. China has blocked...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: NetworkManager-1.8.8-2.fc27

NetworkManager is a system service that manages network interfaces and connections based on user or automatic configuration. It supports Ethernet, Bridge, Bond, VLAN, Team, InfiniBand, Wi-Fi, mobile broadband WWAN, PPPoE and other devices, and supports a variety of different VPN services...

[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: NetworkManager-1.10.12-2.fc28

NetworkManager is a system service that manages network interfaces and connections based on user or automatic configuration. It supports Ethernet, Bridge, Bond, VLAN, Team, InfiniBand, Wi-Fi, mobile broadband WWAN, PPPoE and other devices, and supports a variety of different VPN services...