Google has unveiled the new stable release of Chrome 140, accompanied by the open-source Chromium, which serves as its foundation. Unlike Chromium, Chrome includes proprietary branding, DRM modules for protected content playback, an automatic...
Most people remain unaware that their Wi-Fi and Bluetooth devices have quietly become part of a vast, global geolocation tracking system — open, precise, and alarmingly accessible. And if this sounds threatening, it is:...
A new study by specialists at The Trail of Bits has revealed a previously unknown vulnerability in the Google Gemini ecosystem and its associated services, enabling the covert exfiltration of user data through images...
The popular Chrome extension FreeVPN.One, installed by more than 100,000 users and marked with a verification check, has been exposed as spyware. Researchers from Koi Security discovered that it secretly captures screenshots of user...
Elon Musk’s company xAI has found itself at the center of a scandal after it was revealed that user conversations with the chatbot Grok had been inadvertently exposed to the public. By clicking the...
The book From Day Zero to Zero Day, published by No Starch Press, has been released, offering a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of vulnerability research. The author presented it at DEF CON 33...
Washington and London have at last managed to reach an accord on an issue that threatened to escalate into a serious diplomatic and technological conflict. U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced that...
TikTok has found itself at the center of a new scandal following an investigation by 404 Media: through TikTok Shop, vast numbers of GPS trackers and covert audio devices are being sold, brazenly advertised...
Researchers from University College London and the University of the Mediterranean in Reggio Calabria, Italy, have conducted the first large-scale investigation into privacy practices among generative AI assistants for web browsers, revealing that even...
Israel’s military intelligence unit, Unit 8200—specializing in cyber-espionage and electronic surveillance—has been using Microsoft’s cloud servers to store a vast archive of data on residents of Gaza and the West Bank. This trove, leveraged...
Whonix 17.4, a distribution purpose-built for uncompromising anonymity online, has been released. Based on Debian GNU/Linux, the system routes all network traffic exclusively through Tor, with its source code available under the GPLv3 license....
A researcher operating under the pseudonym dead1nfluence has discovered that the Internet Archive contains over 130,000 recorded conversations with popular chatbots — including Claude, Grok, ChatGPT, and others. This finding suggests that with improper...
