How someone can nab buffered info, by hook or by kr00k Ambiguity in the Wi-Fi specification has left the wireless networking stacks in various operating systems vulnerable to several attacks that have the potential to expose network traffic.... [...]
Digital Market Act interoperability requirement a social challenge as well as a technical one By March 2024, instant messaging and real-time media apps operated by large tech platforms in Europe will be required to communicate with other services, per the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA).... [...]
Starting to see a pattern here? Judge seems to think so Updated Google Chat histories handed over by the web giant in ongoing Android antitrust litigation reveal the biz has been systematically destroying evidence, according to those suing the big G.... [...]
Liberté, égalité, reconnaissance faciale for all Despite the opposition of 38 civil society groups, the French National Assembly has approved the use of algorithmic video surveillance during the 2024 Paris Olympics.... [...]
Security researchers find bugs, big and small, in every industrial box probed Devices used in critical infrastructure are riddled with vulnerabilities that can cause denial of service, allow configuration manipulation, and achieve remote code execution, according to security researchers.... [...]
Now that's a flash bang Police in Ecuador are investigating attacks on media organizations across the country after a journalist was injured by an exploding USB flash drive.... [...]
Religious non-profit allegedly hoovered up location data from dating apps to ID clerics A Catholic clergy conformance organization has reportedly been buying up tracking data from mobile apps to identify gay priests, and providing that information to bishops around America.... [...]
Clock is ticking for TikTok and other foreign natter-ware On Tuesday a bipartisan group of a dozen US senators introduced a bill to authorize the Commerce Department to ban information and communications technology products and services deemed threats to national security.... [...]
Investigations 'at risk' from sloppy surveillance uncovered by audit probe The US Secret Service and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agencies have failed to follow the law and official policy regarding the use of cell-site simulators, according to a government audit.... [...]
Proposal to break encryption to scan messages for abuse material challenged as illegal and unworkable Europe's proposed "Chat Control" legislation to automatically scan chat, email, and instant message communications for child sexual exploitation material (CSEM) ran up against broad resistance at a meeting of the German Parliament's (Bundestag) Digital …
rm -rf'ing staff chat logs can't go unpunished, says Uncle Sam The US Department of Justice (DoJ) asked the judge hearing its antitrust case against Google to sanction the search advertising giant for destruction of evidence.... [...]
Cyber Europe cyber worried about cyber threats, doesn't cyber use the other C word (China) The European Commission on Thursday banned the use of the TikTok short video app on corporate devices and on the personal devices of employees enrolled in the commission's mobile device management service.... [...]
Eggheads prove they can mimic messages and bag bug bounty bucks Analysis Over the past two decades, efforts have been made to make email more secure. Alas, defensive protocols implemented during this period, such as SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, remain unable to deal with the complexity of email forwarding …
Devs missed warnings plus tons of code relies again on lone open source maintainer Google this week reversed an overhaul of one of its security-related file formats after the transition broke Android apps.... [...]
WebKit flaw 'may have been exploited' – just like Tim Cook 'may have' made a million bucks this week Apple this week released bug-splatting updates to its operating systems and Safari browser, to fix a zero-day vulnerability in its WebKit browser engine that's reported to have been actively exploited.... [...]
Chocolate Factory's ad tech renovation is moving ahead, like it or not Google on Tuesday began rolling out a beta test of its Privacy Sandbox software for a small portion of Android 13 devices to learn how its purportedly privacy-protecting ad tech actually performs.... [...]
Schools' laptops are out if this one gets around, tho beware bricking Users of enterprise-managed Chromebooks now, for better or worse, have a way to break the shackles of administrative control through an exploit called SHI1MMER.... [...]
'I believe they made this change deliberately' claims researcher The Secure Boot process on almost 300 different PC motherboard models manufactured by Micro-Star International (MSI) isn't secure, which is particularly problematic when "Secure" is part of the process description.... [...]
'I believe they made this change deliberately' claims researcher The Secure Boot process on almost 300 different PC motherboard models manufactured by Micro-Star International (MSI) isn't secure, which is particularly problematic when "Secure" is part of the process description.... [...]
Call metadata can be ferreted out Boffins based in China and the UK have devised a telecom network attack that can expose call metadata during VoLTE/VoNR conversations.... [...]
Boffins find Twitter foreign influence campaign didn't have much pull Russian disinformation didn't materially affect the way people voted in the 2016 US presidential election, according to a research study published on Monday, though that doesn't make the effect totally inconsequential.... [...]
Near-term vulnerability of RSA-2048 keys not so near, says quantum boffin Scott Aaronson Briefly this week, it appeared that quantum computers might finally be ready to break 2048-bit RSA encryption, but that moment has passed.... [...]
Activists note absence of VPNs ponder whether Apple may put revenue above human rights in some markets Apple has been accused of selling out human rights for the sake of profit by cooperating with authoritarian censorship demands in China and Russia, according to two reports issued on Thursday.... [...]
Scheme allegedly allowed taxi drivers to bypass airport waiting line for $10 fee Two men have been charged for allegedly conspiring with Russian hackers to manipulate the taxi dispatch system at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.... [...]
Central hub will make things smoother and safer but not store details The European Commission last week proposed rules governing the use of Advance Passenger Information in a bid to strengthen border security.... [...]