Notices by Catalin Cimpanu (campuscodi@mastodon.social)

That recent Firefox zero-day was used to target Tor Browser users

https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-6-8-1/

Security researcher Alexander Hagenah has released TotalRecall, a tool that extracts and displays data from the Recall feature in Windows 11.

https://github.com/xaitax/TotalRecall

YouTube is intentionally slowing down page loads for users with ad blockers

https://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-blames-ad-blockers-slow-load-times-3387523/

The UK's Online Safety Act is now an official UK law

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-children-and-adults-to-be-safer-online-as-world-leading-bill-becomes-law

"Using Side Eye, a machine learning assisted tool that Fu and his research team created, Fu can determine the gender of someone speaking in the room where a photo was taken –– and even the exact words they spoke."

https://news.northeastern.edu/2023/09/25/audio-recovery-still-images-silent-videos/

Just a reminder to everyone to never use Chrome for anything than downloading another browser.

RIP Kevin Mitnick

August 6, 1963 – July 16, 2023

https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/las-vegas-nv/kevin-mitnick-11371668

Mozilla's Mastodon instance is now live

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-social-mastodon-private-beta-announcement/

"I scanned every package on PyPi and found 57 live AWS keys"

https://tomforb.es/i-scanned-every-package-on-pypi-and-found-57-live-aws-keys/

Italian security researcher RE-Solver has found several backdoor credentials in the firmware of some ZyXEL routers. This includes hardcoded superuser credentials that can bypass web UI authentication and hardcoded credentials to allow root access via Telnet.

https://resolverblog.blogspot.com/2022/12/cve-2022-40602-zyxel-lte3301-m209.html

FBI recommends using ad-blockers when performing internet searches to avoid malicious ads in search results

https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2022/PSA221221