Researchers on Wednesday reported critical vulnerabilities in a widely used networking appliance that leaves some of the world’s biggest networks open to intrusion.
https://eclypsium.com/blog/big-vulnerabilities-in-next-gen-big-ip/
vulnerabilities allow attackers to gain full administrative control of a device then create accounts on systems managed by the Central Manager. “attacker-controlled accounts would not be visible from the Next Central Manager itself, enabling ongoing malicious persistence within the environment,”
proposed measures to improve children's online safety
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/news-centre/2024/our-proposed-measures-to-improve-childrens-online-safety
parents of children who died after exposure to harmful online content have described the proposed new rules as "insufficient" - one told the BBC change was happening "at a snail's pace."
People under 18 could be banned from using social media apps including TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat if the tech firms don’t follow new Ofcom rules to protect children.
But what is Ofcom and why does it want to change what people see online?
Here’s a quick guide to get you up to speed.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68976826
Could Ofcom ban social media for under-18s?
And Ofcom’s own data suggests a significant minority of parents can be willing collaborators in allowing underage children to use social media sites under the minimum age
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68838029
Can we really 'reset the internet' to make it safer for children?
"A major reset of the internet to make it much safer” is how Ofcom's Gill Whitehead described the communications watchdog's child safety announcements
Internet Matters, which provides advice on online safety, has just published research, external which suggests one in seven teenagers aged 16 and under have experienced a form of image-based sexual abuse, with more than half saying that a young person known to them was to blame.
The Pentagon announced on May 7 that the U.S. military had completed construction of the humanitarian aid pier off the coast of central Gaza
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/05/08/u-s-announces-completion-of-gaza-aid-pier/
Earlier on April 25, Gazan terrorists attacked the construction site for the pier’s marshaling area, causing minimal damage. During the attack, IDF troops had to rush UN officials touring the site to shelter
Meanwhile:
About 1,750 people in the UK are living with an undiagnosed hepatitis C infection after being given a transfusion with contaminated blood, according to BBC analysis.
Infected blood: Hundreds of victims living with undetected hepatitis C
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-68978513
Official documents, seen by BBC News, reveal how the UK government and the NHS failed to adequately trace those who were most at risk of having the virus
Together with 176 other organizations, researchers and journalists, Mozilla is calling on Meta to rethink the decision.And Meta’s already feeling the pressure
Open letter
Meta wants to replace CrowdTangle with new tools – but currently, these tools don’t provide the transparency, insights and search capabilities offered by CrowdTangle and, most importantly, currently only a small number of researchers have access to it
TELL META: Don't Kill Your Crucial Transparency Tool, CrowdTangle!
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/crowdtangle-petition/
Meta has announced it will be abandoning CrowdTangle, its industry leading transparency tool, this August - in the middle of the biggest election year on record.
CrowdTangle is used by thousands of researchers, journalists and advocates to monitor political disinformation and hate speech
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EXPERTS INSIST: NO, YOUR PHONE ISN’T SECRETLY LISTENING TO YOU
https://futurism.com/the-byte/phones-listen-theory-debunked
Do a search you'll find many articles yourself
(Sorry for all caps copy & paste job cause I'm lazy 😆)
@AnnetteTRemain yeah I know that that's why I put it at bottom of my post
Stephen works for the government as a spokesperson for TIA, a database that monitors people's actions. But he soon realises that the officials are using him to gain benefits
The Last Enemy:(2008) With Benedict Cumberbatch, Anamaria Marinca, Max Beesley, Robert Carlyle. Britain has been transformed into a security state.
Just starting this tonight looks good
Meanwhile: in Scotland
NHS Dumfries and Galloway has confirmed some children’s mental health data has been published by criminals following a cyber attack.
A ransomware group targeted the health board earlier this year and has now published a large volume of patient data on the dark web.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cglvpnpxx87o
"We’ve not heard anything directly from the NHS and it raises my concerns and I know other people will be worried,"
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