Collaborate Disseminate
Researchers allege LG smart TVs can capture ambient audio and scan home networks, while LG disputes the findings and explains its privacy controls.
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Several times this summer, Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday, the monthly roundup of major security patches for Microsoft products, has included record-breaking numbers of security fixes. The August 2026 patch set actually …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: It’s Patch Tuesday Again, TVs Spying, Supply Chain Worms Return, Prolonged Hack Impacts, Stolen IDs
A new report reveals that LG’s smart TVs are collecting a lot of user data, even when they’re not connected to the Internet.
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LG will disable McAfee ads shown through its Windows monitor app after Microsoft intervened, raising new questions about user consent and control.
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LG will disable McAfee ads shown through its Windows monitor app after Microsoft intervened, raising new questions about user consent and control.
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[Ayush Paul] posts about extracting data from Claude agents while it accesses web data to fulfill user requests. But it wasn’t that easy. [Ayush] discovered that Anthropic anticipated many of …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: AI is a Mess, Hacking Car Chargers, an OpenSSL DoS, and Factories Under Attack
Microsoft asked LG to stop showing McAfee pop-ups to Windows 11 users via its LG Monitor app, which can be installed automatically when an LG monitor is connected to a PC.
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Connecting certain LG monitors prompts Windows Update to install an LG app without consent, while the software runs at startup and displays McAfee trial adverts. Continue reading LG Monitors Spotted Installing Adware-Like App on Windows PCs
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today it worked with industry partners to seize hundreds of domains associated with NetNut, a sprawling residential proxy service operated by the publicly-traded Israeli company Alarum Technologies [NASDAQ: ALAR]. The action comes roughly two weeks after KrebsOnSecurity published findings from multiple security firms connecting NetNut to the Popa botnet, a collection of at least two million devices that have been compromised by malicious software with little or no consent from victims. Continue reading FBI Seizes NetNut Proxy Platform, Popa Botnet
For the past four years, a sprawling Android-based botnet called Popa has forced millions of consumer TV boxes to relay Internet traffic linked to advertising fraud, account takeovers, and mass data-scraping efforts. This week, researchers from multiple security firms concluded that the Popa botnet is linked to NetNut, a “residential proxy” provider operated by the publicly-traded Israeli firm Alarum Technologies Ltd [NASDAQ: ALAR]. Continue reading ‘Popa’ Botnet Linked to Publicly-Traded Israeli Firm