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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has reached a settlement with telehealth firm Cerebral in which the company will pay $7,000,000 over allegations of mishandling people's sensitive health data. In March 2023, the company sent out notices of data breach to 3.2 million people who had interacted with its websites, applications, and services, that their information had been exposed due to using tracking pixels on its platform.
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Google has disclosed that two Android security flaws impacting its Pixel smartphones have been exploited in the wild by forensic companies. The high-severity zero-day vulnerabilities are as...
Google has fixed two Google Pixel zero-days exploited by forensic firms to unlock phones without a PIN and gain access to the data stored within them. While the April 2024 security bulletin for Android didn't contain anything severe, the corresponding April 2024 bulletin for Pixel devices disclosed active exploitation of two vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2024-29745 and CVE-2024-29748 flaws.
Google has shared a temporary fix for owners of Google Pixel devices that were rendered unusable after installing the January 2024 Google Play system update. As previously reported by BleepingComputer, after the January 2024 Google Play system updates came out, some owners of various Google Pixel models experienced internal storage access problems, the inability to open apps or the camera, or even take screenshots.
Google Pixel smartphone owners report problems after installing the January 2024 Google Play system update, being unable to access their devices internal storage, open the camera, take screenshots, or even open apps. The root cause is unknown but is likely a software issue with the January 2024 Play system update that Google hasn't pinpointed or fixed yet.
While cyberattacks on websites receive much attention, there are often unaddressed risks that can lead to businesses facing lawsuits and privacy violations even in the absence of hacking...
A team of researchers at Georgia Tech, the University of Michigan, and Ruhr University Bochum have developed a novel attack called "Hot Pixels," which can retrieve pixels from the content displayed in the target's browser and infer the navigation history. Next, the team experimented with data-dependent leakage channels on discreet and integrated GPUs, including Apple's M1 and M2, AMD Radeon RX 6600, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, and Intel Iris Xe. The researchers performed a detailed investigation and characterization of how different processing behaviors could impact observable factors like power consumption, temperature, and frequency and used this data as a foundation to evaluate the "Hot Pixels" attack.
In the image editing tool on Google's Pixel phones. The old data - the tail-end of last week's football game, in our VCR analogy - would remain behind on the stoarge device, but it would no longer be part of the digital file containing the new image.
aCropalypse Now, starring any 2018-or-later device If you've owned a Google Pixel smartphone since the 3 series came out in 2018, bad news: any screenshot that you've cropped or redacted on your...