Brave Announces Verifiable and Transparent TEE Support in Leo
Today, Brave announced that their Leo AI assistant inside of the Brave browser will utilize NEAR AI Nvidia-backed Trusted Execution Environments (TEE).
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Android's Quick Share is Now Compatible with AirDrop
According to Android Authority, Android's Quick Share feature for sending files wirelessly over the air is now officially compatible with AirDrop, without any help from Apple.
Sturnus Android Malware Directly Captures Screen, Bypassing E2EE
A new strain of insidious Android malware has been discovered that can “bypass encrypted messaging” by capturing content directly from the screen after decryption.
First Foreign Censorship Shield Bill Proposed in Wyoming
A blog post by Preston Byrne, the lawyer representing 4chan in their ongoing legal case with Ofcom, announced that the GRANITE Act, “the first foreign censorship shield bill ever conceived in the history of the United States,” has been filed in the state of Wyoming.
Element Will Soon Make Verifying Your Devices Mandatory
The Matrix-based messenger Element announced their plans to make verifying your devices mandatory, so you can be sure the person you’re messaging with end-to-end encryption is really them.
Mozilla’s Monitor Plus Service is Shutting Down
Mozilla’s paid data removal service, Monitor Plus, will be shut down on December 17.
Thousands of ASUS Routers Compromised in Suspected State-Sponsored Cyberattack
SecurityScorecard’s STRIKE team has worked with ASUS to unveil a massive malware campaign against End-of-Life (EoL) ASUS WRT routers.
EU Digital Omnibus Supposedly Simplifies Digital Privacy Regulation
The EU Commission has put forth their Digital Omnibus Regulation Proposal, which aims to simplify the GDPR in order to foster competitiveness.
Windows Announces “Experimental Agentic Features,” Admits Potential for Prompt Injection and Malware
Windows will be getting a new feature called Copilot Actions that will allow Copilot to perform actions on behalf of the user by interacting with local files and applications.
Microsoft Issues Patch After Extended Security Updates Fail
Microsoft has put out preparation package KB5072653 for their Extended Security Updates (ESU) program to fix errors users who believed they were enrolled in the ESU program were experiencing when trying to update after Windows 10 support ended.
Elcomsoft Achieves Full Filesystem Extraction for Apple TV 4K on tvOS 26
Elcomsoft, purveyor of forensic extraction tools, announced that they were the first to achieve a full filesystem extraction for the Apple TV 4K running tvOS 26, marking the first forensic extraction of one of Apple's latest operating systems, according to them.
Trail of Bits Discloses Vulnerabilities in Elliptic JavaScript Library
Today, Trail of Bits, a well-respected security research and auditing firm, has released a blog post outlining two vulnerabilities in elliptic, a widely used JavaScript cryptographic library.
Swathes of the Internet are Down Due to Cloudflare Outage
Cloudflare, a widely-used provider of anti-DDoS services to a significant portion of websites on the internet, is out, leaving large portions of the internet inaccessible.
GrapheneOS Builds Based on Android QPR1 Available for Public Testing
The long-awaited QPR1 update was pushed to AOSP on November 11th after a long two-month delay, and the GrapheneOS team are hard at work on a QPR1 update for their operating system.
Google: Less Than 20% of New Vulnerabilities in Android are Memory Safety Related
A recent blog post by Google shows that memory safety vulnerabilities account for less than 20% of new vulnerabilities in Android this year, down from 76% in 2019.
Brave Unveils Coral, Their New System for Verifiable Parsing
In a new paper and accompanying blog post, Brave has unveiled Coral, “a system for proving in zero-knowledge that a committed byte stream corresponds to a structured object in accordance with a Context Free Grammar.”
WhatsApp Rolls Out Messaging Interoperability for Europeans
Meta has started allowing third-party messengers to interoperate with WhatsApp in compliance with the European Digital Markets Act (DMA).
Ben Jordan Exposes Severe Security Vulnerabilities in Flock Surveillance Cameras
YouTuber Ben Jordan released a 40 minute exposé, showing just how easy it is for hackers to get info the sensitive data stored inside Flock's now ubiquitous surveillance cameras.
Android Might be Getting an iOS NameDrop Equivalent
According to Android Authority, an equivalent to iOS’ NameDrop contact sharing feature might be coming to Android.
Email Security: Where We Are and What the Future Holds
Email is ubiquitous. If you want to function in modern society, you pretty much have to have an email address, but what was originally just a simple protocol to send messages between machines has morphed beyond what it was originally intended for.
OpenAI Announces Plans for "Client-Side Encryption" for ChatGPT
Coming hot off the heels of their lawsuit with the New York Times, OpenAI has announced new plans to improve the privacy of its users.