Technology

Fake Cisco Webex Google Ads abuse tracking templates to push malware (www.malwarebytes.com)

A new malvertising campaign is targeting corporate users who are downloading the popular web conferencing software Webex. Threat actors have bought an advert that has been online for almost a week and that impersonates Cisco’s brand and is displayed first when performing a Google search. The malware being used in this campaign...

Android App Pin Security Issue Allowing Unauthorized Payments via Google Wallet (github.com)

There is a possible way for a general purpose NFC reader to read the full card number and expiry details when the device is in locked screen mode due to a logic error in the code. This could lead to local information disclosure with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation....

BLASTPASS: NSO Group iPhone Zero-Click, Zero-Day Exploit Captured in the Wild (citizenlab.ca)

Last week, while checking the device of an individual employed by a Washington DC-based civil society organization with international offices, Citizen Lab found an actively exploited zero-click vulnerability being used to deliver NSO Group’s Pegasus mercenary spyware. This latest find shows once again that civil society is...

Google faces a £7 billion lawsuit in the UK for blocking search engine competition at the expense of consumers (consumervoice.uk)

The claim accuses Google of shutting out search engine competition on smartphones by fixing things to make itself the default on practically all mobile phones in the UK. This led to higher prices for advertisers who, to a large extent, have passed costs onto consumers, forcing them to pay more for goods and services than they...

U.S., CBP Tells Airports Its New Facial Recognition Target is 75% of Passengers Leaving the US (www.404media.co)

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has told airports it plans to increase its targets for scanning passengers with facial recognition as they leave the U.S., according to an internal airport email. Whitney Merrill, a privacy attorney, encountered a facial recognition system last month when boarding an international United...

Biotech Research on Station: Exploring DNA and Organ Printing in Space (scitechdaily.com)

The Expedition 69 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS) focused its main research activities on biotechnology on Wednesday. The orbital residents also continued the ongoing maintenance of lab hardware. Research on the Space Station Researchers on the ground use the facilities aboard th

Big ISPs will dominate $42B grant fund if rules aren’t changed, advocates say (arstechnica.com)

Upfront grant costs are "too steep for all butThe biggest Internet service providers will dominate a $42.45 billion broadband grant program unless the Biden administration changes a rule requiring grant recipients to obtain a letter of credit from a bank, according to a joint statement from consumer advocacy groups, local...

As the US election campaign heats up, so could the market for misinformation (www.theguardian.com)

Social media firms’ handlings of misinformation and divisive speech reached a breaking point in the 2020 US presidential elections when Donald Trump used online platforms to rile up his base, culminating in the storming of the Capitol building on 6 January 2021. But in the time since, companies have not strengthened their...

Better Cybersecurity With a New Quantum Random Number Generator (scitechdaily.com)

Quantum random number generation based on a perovskite light emitting diode. Digital information exchange can be safer, cheaper, and more environmentally friendly with the help of a new type of random number generator for encryption developed at Linköping University, Sweden. The researchers behin

Court Says Texas’ Adult Content Age Verification Law Clearly Violates The 1st Amendment (www.techdirt.com)

We’ve been talking a lot by the rush of states to push for age verification laws all over the world, despite basically every expert noting that age verification technology is inherently a problem for privacy and security, and the laws mandating it are terrible. So far, it seems that only the Australian government has decided...

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