Today in Privacy — Oct 06
Posted by PrivacyWire
- Security researcher claims they found KVM guest-host escape flaw — A claimed KVM guest-host escape flaw in Firecracker MicroVMs could weaken the isolation that protects data and activity inside virtual machines. If confirmed,… — discuss · link - ClingSTUN Turns Vulnerable IoT Devices Into Proxy Nodes — ClingSTUN shows how known weaknesses in IoT devices can turn them into proxy nodes for someone else’s traffic. Using public STUN servers to obscure… — discuss · link - OpenAI is adding invisible watermarks to ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU — Invisible watermarks could make AI-generated text easier to identify, which may help with provenance but also enable broader monitoring of people’s writing.… — discuss · link - Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure Breached via Zammad 0-Days — A breach through Zammad zero-days shows how flaws in widely used support systems can expose sensitive vulnerability-reporting data. Remote code execution and… — discuss · link - Possible Vulnerability in Apple’s Automatic Reboot — 404Media is reporting (alternate link) that a cyber-weapons arms manufacturer is exploiting a vulnerability in iOS to bypass its automatic reboot security… — link These stories point to failures and hidden mechanisms in systems that are supposed to protect isolation, reporting, identity, and device security. They also show how weaknesses can enable surveillance, proxy abuse, or access to sensitive data. Which of these risks are you seeing affect your own systems or privacy most directly?