Security & Privacy News

4201 news in this category

1. Ongoing antitrust evidence reveals Google's strategy to 'crush' its competition in ads

   By Karlston, September 12, 2024   

   • google
   • antitrust trial
   • 3 comments
   • 1,516 views
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   • Comment by aeri
   • September 15, 2024

2. Europe’s privacy watchdog probes Google over data used for AI training

   By Karlston, September 12, 2024   

   • google
   • privacy
   • (and 1 more)

     Tagged with:

     • google
     • privacy
     • eu
   • 0 comments
   • 1,078 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • September 12, 2024

3. YouTube on TVs reportedly showing ads even when pausing videos to more users

   By Karlston, September 12, 2024   

   • youtube
   • ads
   • 0 comments
   • 1,588 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • September 12, 2024

4. Adobe fixes Acrobat Reader zero-day with public PoC exploit

   By Karlston, September 12, 2024   

   • acrobat reader
   • security patch
   • 0 comments
   • 1,469 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • September 12, 2024

5. Rogue WHOIS server gives researcher superpowers no one should ever have

   By Karlston, September 11, 2024
   • 0 comments
   • 1,174 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • September 11, 2024

6. Zyxel warns of vulnerabilities in a wide range of its products

   By Karlston, September 5, 2024   

   • zyxel
   • vulnerabilties
   • 0 comments
   • 1,289 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • September 5, 2024

7. Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Amazon partner admits your phone could listen to everything

   By Karlston, September 4, 2024   

   • privacy
   • snooping
   • 1 comment
   • 1,333 views
   • 
   • Comment by aeri
   • September 5, 2024

8. YubiKeys are vulnerable to cloning attacks thanks to newly discovered side channel

   By Karlston, September 4, 2024   

   • yubikeys
   • vulnerability
   • 0 comments
   • 1,999 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • September 4, 2024

9. D-Link says it is not fixing four RCE flaws in DIR-846W routers

   By Karlston, September 3, 2024   

   • d-link
   • vulnerability
   • 0 comments
   • 1,394 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • September 3, 2024

10. Major Sites Are Saying No to Apple’s AI Scraping

    By Karlston, August 29, 2024   

    • apple
    • ai
    • 0 comments
    • 1,358 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • August 29, 2024

11. WhatsApp testing Passkeys feature to make accessing your encrypted backups much easier

    By Karlston, August 28, 2024   

    • whatsapp
    • 0 comments
    • 1,288 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • August 28, 2024

12. Uber fined $325 million for moving driver data from Europe to US

    By Karlston, August 26, 2024   

    • uber
    • 0 comments
    • 1,234 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • August 26, 2024

13. Telegram says CEO has ‘nothing to hide’ after being arrested in France

    By Karlston, August 26, 2024   

    • telegram
    • 3 comments
    • 2,172 views
    • 
    • Comment by aeri
    • August 30, 2024

14. Hackers steal banking creds from iOS, Android users via PWA apps

    By Karlston, August 23, 2024
    • 1 comment
    • 1,791 views
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    • Comment by esi
    • August 25, 2024

15. Phrack hacker zine publishes new edition after three years

    By Karlston, August 21, 2024
    • 0 comments
    • 1,555 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • August 21, 2024

16. Toyota confirms third-party data breach impacting customers

    By Karlston, August 21, 2024   

    • toyota
    • data breach
    • 1 comment
    • 1,421 views
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    • Comment by esi
    • August 24, 2024

17. WhatsApp may bring support for usernames with an option to set PIN to limit spam messages

    By Karlston, August 20, 2024   

    • whatsapp
    • pin
    • 1 comment
    • 1,480 views
    • 
    • Comment by UberGeek
    • August 21, 2024

18. Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse.

    By Karlston, August 19, 2024   

    • smart tv
    • ads
    • (and 1 more)

      Tagged with:

      • smart tv
      • ads
      • privacy
    • 2 comments
    • 2,252 views
    • 
    • Comment by meohmy
    • August 27, 2024

19. New Mad Liberator gang uses fake Windows update screen to hide data theft

    By Karlston, August 17, 2024
    • 0 comments
    • 1,293 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • August 17, 2024

20. NationalPublicData.com Hack Exposes a Nation’s Data

    By Karlston, August 16, 2024
    • 2 comments
    • 1,786 views
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    • Comment by aeri
    • August 30, 2024

21. Debian LTS Team takes over Debian 11 security updates from today

    By Karlston, August 15, 2024   

    • debian
    • lts
    • (and 1 more)

      Tagged with:

      • debian
      • lts
      • security updates
    • 0 comments
    • 1,284 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • August 15, 2024

22. Microsoft posts guidance for CVE-2024-21302 VBS flaw that downgrades modern Windows PCs

    By Karlston, August 15, 2024   

    • windows
    • vulnerability
    • 0 comments
    • 1,662 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • August 15, 2024

23. Proton VPN: free VPN users can use the browser extensions now

    By Karlston, August 14, 2024   

    • proton vpn
    • 1 comment
    • 1,426 views
    • 
    • Comment by esi
    • August 27, 2024

24. India telecom watchdog directs carriers to stop spam calls, blacklist callers

    By aum, August 13, 2024
    • 0 comments
    • 1,259 views
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    • Added by aum
    • August 13, 2024

25. Windows 11/10 system driver has BSOD-triggering CVE-2024-6768 flaw on fully updated PCs

    By Karlston, August 12, 2024   

    • windows 10
    • windows 11
    • (and 1 more)

      Tagged with:

      • windows 10
      • windows 11
      • vulnerability
    • 0 comments
    • 1,488 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • August 12, 2024