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Flock, a company known for its license plate readers, is facing significant challenges as multiple cities terminate contracts due to privacy concerns. In response to the loss of customers, Flock is implementing a voluntary severance program for employees. This trend highlights the increasing scrutiny and regulatory pressure on surveillance technologies, particularly in urban areas. Organizations in the surveillance sector may need to adapt to the growing demand for privacy and data protection. The situation underscores the ongoing tension between technological innovation and civil liberties.
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Researchers wanted to test if LG's smart TVs come with any security risks - but their lawyers noticed a snag: the terms and conditions would forbid it. So they came up with a solution. They got plastered before setting up the TV, on the reasoning that you can't be legally bound to a contract you agr...
 The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit handed internet users and programmers a big win today, by rejecting an attempt to stretch a narrow provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) into a new source of copyright liability. Â
The case involves Section 1202 of the DMCA, which p...
New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues.
New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues.
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Several security issues were fixed in libheif.
Several security issues were fixed in python-cryptography.
The AWS European Sovereign Cloud is a new, independent cloud for Europe, physically and logically separate from existing AWS Regions and operated within the European Union (EU). It provides the same services, features, and APIs as AWS commercial Regions, but runs as a distinct AWS partition (aws-eus...
Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird, which could result in the execution of arbitrary code. For the stable distribution (trixie), these problems have been fixed in version 1:140.16.0esr-1~deb13u1. We recommend that you upgrade your thunderbird packages.
“It's really complicated, and I wouldn't want to do something in a lame duck session to do it quickly and not get it right,” said House Energy and Commerce Chairman Brett Guthrie about the FRONTIER Act.
Microsoft is investigating reports that the Windows 11 KB5124008 security update is breaking domain trust relationships on some enterprise systems, preventing users from logging in with valid domain credentials. [...]
Agency's shift from static CVSS scores to risk-based prioritization sends the old format packing September 28
Government agencies are warning that Iranian state-linked hackers are using a Windows malware strain named CHOSEN BRICK to target dissidents, activists, and journalists worldwide. [...]
It’s the first guidance from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on deploying decoys, like honeypots, to detect and distract adversaries.
The post CISA promotes a fresh way to deter cyberattackers: Lie to them appeared first on CyberScoop.
Lumen exposes BambooToken, a stealthy malware family using MQTT and sideloading to quietly infect targets across Asia and beyond. BambooToken is a new malware family that uses MQTT, a lightweight messaging protocol commonly found in smart devices and industrial systems, to quietly control infected W...
It was discovered that python-cryptography incorrectly accepted objects
with immutable buffers when performing certain cipher operations. This
would result in corrupted output, contrary to expectations. This issue only
affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-23931)
It was discovered that python-crypto...
A modern storefront can look healthy while malicious JavaScript quietly siphons revenue, hijacks clicks, or rewrites analytics. See how Cloudflare's machine learning models surface evasive client-side attacks for analyst investigation.
Microsoft’s top lawyer argued Tuesday that legislators “must make secrecy [orders] the exception” in government subpoenas demanding information about LinkedIn users.
LinkedIn, which is owned by Microsoft, is fighting what it calls overly broad subpoena demands from the US g...
ESET Endpoint Security for macOS version 10.0 is available for download.
A banking malware operation active since mid-2025 has been using a toolkit named KREMLIN to install malicious Chrome and Edge extensions that steal credentials, session tokens, and sensitive data. [...]