LG A recent update from LG has revealed security vulnerabilities present in webOS-enabled smart TVs. The exploits, which were first discovered by Romanian cybersecurity firm Bitdefender, could have been exploited to give an attacker remote root access to users’ TVs. The four vulnerabilities, which LG says the company fixed on March 22, 2024, were first … Read more
An Indian state government has fixed security issues impacting its website that exposed the sensitive documents and personal information of millions of residents. The bugs existed on the Rajasthan government website related to Jan Aadhaar, a state program to provide a single identifier to families and individuals in the state to access welfare schemes. The … Read more
Hey, folks, and welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter covering notable happenings in tech over the past few days. On the agenda for this edition is Disney’s innovative VR treadmill, OpenAI fixing its “lazy” AI and MIT’s high-capacity, fast-charging organic battery tech. We also cover Apple’s new stolen device protection feature, AI … Read more
Hyundai’s India subsidiary has fixed a bug that exposed its customers’ personal information in the South Asian market. TechCrunch reviewed a portion of the exposed data that included the registered owner name, mailing address, email address, and phone number of Hyundai Motor India customers who have serviced their vehicles at any of the company’s authorized … Read more
December was a hectic month for updates as firms including Apple and Google rushed to get patches out to fix serious flaws in their products before the holiday break. Enterprise software giants also issued their fair share of patches, with Atlassian and SAP squashing several critical bugs during December. Here’s what you need to know … Read more
Ubiquity, the networking and video surveillance camera maker, has fixed a bug that users say mistakenly allowed them access to the accounts and private live video streams of other customers. Reports first emerged on Reddit that some customers received push notifications on their phones featuring Ubiquiti account-related information and private video streams belonging to other … Read more
Google’s Pixel devices have already received the November update, along with some additional fixes. The November Android Security Bulletin has also started to roll out to some of Samsung’s Galaxy line. Microsoft Microsoft has a Patch Tuesday every month, but November’s is worth notice. The update fixes 59 vulnerabilities, two of which are already being … Read more
Apple’s got an update for the iPhone, and this one will be of particular interest to BMW owners. The new iOS 17.1.1 update fixes an odd bug that disables the phone’s NFC chip after you wirelessly charge the iPhone in a BMW. While that may sound innocuous, the fact that some BMW owners were unable … Read more
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In 2020, scientists decided just to rework the alphanumeric symbols they used to represent genes rather than try to deal with an Excel feature that was interpreting their names as dates and (un)helpfully reformatting them automatically. Yesterday, a member of the Excel team posted that the company is rolling out an update on Windows and … Read more
A security researcher says a bug on an Indian state government website inadvertently revealed documents containing residents’ Aadhaar numbers, identity cards, and copies of their fingerprints. The bug was fixed last week after the security researcher disclosed the bug to local authorities. Sourajeet Majumder found the bug in the West Bengal government’s e-District web portal … Read more