Google Settles $5B Lawsuit for ‘Incognito Mode’ Privacy Issues
Google agreed to pay the $5B settlement brought by the class-action lawsuit filed in 2020, due to concerns about the tech giant continuously tracking sensitive data while on Google Chrome’s supposedly private ‘incognito mode’.
The plaintiffs who complained about Google Chrome’s privacy issues claim that Google yields an “unaccountable trove of information” on their ‘incognito mode’ users.
Researchers Uncover a Tesla Autopilot Exploit
Researchers from the Technische Universität Berlin managed to hack into Tesla’s autopilot system, granting them access to internal hardware and hidden capabilities.
The university’s researchers using inexpensive tools amounting to $600 hacked into Tesla’s ARM64-based circuit board of the car’s autopilot system. The researchers’ hack on Tesla allowed them access to arbitrary code, user data, cryptographic keys, system parts, a deleted GPS coordinates video, and the hidden “Elon-mode” allowing the cars to have a fully hands-free self-driving feature.
New DLL Search Order Hijacking Tactic Bypasses Windows OS Security
Security Joes reported on a dynamic link library (DLL) search order hijacking tactic used to execute malicious code into Microsoft Windows 10 and 11 operating systems.
The threat actor tactics leverage executables found in the WinSxS folder and exploit them via the DLL search order hijacking technique.