Researchers on Wednesday reported critical vulnerabilities in a widely used networking appliance that leaves some of the world’s biggest networks open to intrusion.

#CoSoSec

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."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czrx13jj9p3o

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?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cxe94vpx111o

#Tech #SocialMedia

"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.

https://www.internetmatters.org/hub/research/methods-prevent-self-generated-child-sexual-abuse-11-13s/

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

#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

Steve Albini, the uncompromising producer, audio engineer, and musician revered for his work with Nirvana, Pixies, PJ Harvey, and countless others in the underground rock scene, died suddenly of a heart attack in his Chicago home last night

RIP Steve Albini

#JusSayin

This so this

What the government knows about ME

https://youtu.be/ae5C590Mq8c

😆

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

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/open-letter-to-meta-support-crowdtangle-through-2024-and-maintain-crowdtangle-approach/

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!

#Meta #SocialMedia

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

https://counter.social/@ecksmc/112104111982396826

@AskTheDevil

@Diyaguse @ps9714

Here ya go

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 😆)

@Diyaguse @ps9714 OK then stay paranoid lol

Sometimes your voice assistant can be triggered when you are talking by accident it doesn't mean your device is always listening there are many articles now debunking that myth not just that one I shared

@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

#CoSoTV #PrimeVideo

The Last Enemy:(2008) With Benedict Cumberbatch, Anamaria Marinca, Max Beesley, Robert Carlyle. Britain has been transformed into a security state.

https://youtu.be/RRa113Vg6pE

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,"