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Texas AG Sues Meta Over Collection and Use of Biometric Data

Hunton Privacy

On February 14, 2022, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton brought suit against Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, over the company’s collection and use of biometric data. The suit focuses on Meta’s “tag suggestions” feature, which the company has since retired.

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Facebook to End Use of Its Facial Recognition System

Hunton Privacy

On November 2, 2021, Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. The Facebook platform has long used facial recognition to provide recommendations for who to tag in photos and videos, and to alert users when a photo they were in is uploaded by another user.

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Facebook is going to shut down Face Recognition system and data it collected

Security Affairs

Facebook announced to shut down its Face Recognition system and is going to delete over 1 billion people’s facial recognition profiles. Facebook announced it will stop using the Face Recognition system on its platform and will delete over 1 billion people’s facial recognition profiles. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Facebook).

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Critical Remote Code Execution issue impacts popular post-exploitation toolkit Cobalt Strike

Security Affairs

This can be exploited using an object tag, which in turn can load a malicious payload from a webserver, which is then executed by the Cobalt Strike client.” “Disabling automatic parsing of html tags across the entire client was enough to mitigate this behaviour.” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Actively exploited Windows Mark-of-the-Web zero-day received an unofficial patch

Security Affairs

In order to prevent unauthorized actions, files downloaded from the internet in Windows are tagged with a MotW flag. “You can see the effect of our micropatch in the following video.” ” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Which we now know means “Run.”” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Google disrupts the Glupteba botnet

Security Affairs

. “In the summer of 2020, Google determined that Glupteba malware was being disseminated on numerous third-party software download sites, online movie streaming sites, and video downloader sites, often advertised as “free downloads.” TAG also partnered with CloudFlare and others take down servers. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Researcher hacked Apple AirTag two weeks after its launch

Security Affairs

The researcher explained that has found a way to modify the tracker software running on the tag, he was able to modify its NFC URL. Smashing published a video PoC of the hack, it shows two Apple AirTag devices and one of them was hacked by the researcher. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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