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Thieves Using AirTags to “Follow” Cars

Schneier on Security

Brand name “air tags” are placed in out-of-sight areas of the target vehicles when they are parked in public places like malls or parking lots. Apple responded with a slew of anti-stalking measures , but those are more intended for keeping people safe than cars.

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Burger King forgets to put a password on their systems, again

Security Affairs

Another piece of sensitive information that the research team observed included a Google Tag Manager ID. Google Tag Manager is a tool used to optimize update measurement codes and related code fragments, collectively known as tags, on a website or mobile app.

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Retrofitting Temporal Memory Safety on C++

Google Security

To further quantify this overhead, we use a selected set of Chrome’s real-world browsing benchmarks to measure memory consumption. Hardware Memory Tagging to the Rescue MTE (Memory Tagging Extension) is a new extension on the ARM v8.5A Every 16 bytes of memory are assigned a 4-bit tag. The extension works as follows.

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Arm, Qualcomm Patch Multiple Zero-Days Reported by Google

SecureWorld News

In the case of Qualcomm, the situation became critical when Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) and Project Zero teams discovered several vulnerabilities, including CVE-2023-33106, CVE-2023-33107, CVE-2023-33063, and CVE-2022-22071. Arm also found itself in a similar predicament.

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RFID: Is it Secret? Is it Safe?

Approachable Cyber Threats

RFID uses electromagnetic fields in the form of radio waves to establish communication links between an RFID tag or transmitter and an RFID reader or receiver. Pieces of information are transmitted through the link that the reader uses to establish authenticity of the tag or transmitter and authorize access. Is RFID secure?

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Indian power generation giant Tata Power hit by a cyber attack

Security Affairs

“All critical operational systems are functioning; however, as a measure of abundant precaution, restricted access and preventive checks have been put in place for employee and customer facing portals and touch points.” The Company has taken steps to retrieve and restore the systems.” ” reported The Economic Times. .”

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Quebec shuts down thousands of sites as disclosure of the Log4Shell flaw

Security Affairs

Quebec shut down nearly 4,000 of its sites as a preventative measure after the disclosure of a PoC exploit for the Log4Shell flaw ( CVE-2021-44228 ) in the Apache Log4j Java-based logging library. Query our API for "tags=CVE-2021-44228" for source IP addresses and other IOCs. Tags available to all users and customers now. .