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Teen sues school and Meta after being arrested and detained over cyber-threats she didn’t make
Daily Archives: February 21, 2022
Nurse and Marine Charged Over Fake Vaccination Card Scheme
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Marine Corps reservist and nurse allegedly sold hundreds of forged coronavirus inoculation cards
Maryland Couple Conspired to Sell Nuclear Secrets
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Nuclear engineer and wife admit plot to steal restricted data and sell it to a foreign power
FBI warns of fake CEO attacks taking place via video conferencing systems
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The FBI has issued a warning that organisations should be on their guard against BEC (Business Email Compromise) attacks involving virtual meeting platforms.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
USN-5293-1: c3p0 vulnerability
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Aaron Massey discovered that c3p0 could be made to crash when
parsing certain input. An attacker able to modify the application’s
XML configuration file could cause a denial of service.
USN-5288-1: Expat vulnerabilities
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It was discovered that Expat incorrectly handled certain files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash or
execute arbitrary code.
vim-8.2.4428-1.fc34
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FEDORA-2022-7ef65e6444
Packages in this update:
vim-8.2.4428-1.fc34
Update description:
Security fix for CVE-2022-0696
Security fix for CVE-2022-0629
Security fix for CVE-2022-0572
Security fixes for CVE-2022-0408, CVE-2022-0413, CVE-2022-0393, CVE-2022-0417, CVE-2022-0443
vim-8.2.4428-1.fc35
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FEDORA-2022-8622ebdebb
Packages in this update:
vim-8.2.4428-1.fc35
Update description:
The newest upstream commit
Security fix for CVE-2022-0629
Stealing Bicycles by Swapping QR Codes
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This is a clever hack against those bike-rental kiosks:
They’re stealing Citi Bikes by switching the QR scan codes on two bicycles near each other at a docking station, then waiting for an unsuspecting cyclist to try to unlock a bike with his or her smartphone app.
The app doesn’t work for the rider but does free up the nearby Citi Bike with the switched code, where a thief is waiting, jumps on the bicycle and rides off.
Presumably they’re using camera, printers, and stickers to swap the codes on the bikes. And presumably the victim is charged for not returning the stolen bicycle.
This story is from last year, but I hadn’t seen it before. There’s a video of one theft at the link.
Sex attacker jailed after police track his hire bike
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Officers based at London’s Charing Cross police station were able to identify a man who committed two sexual assaults, after they were able to track him via his hire bike.