🕶️ Meta's Smart Glasses, Dogecoin Accepted, Zimbra Hack Alert
Good morning. It’s Thursday, October 03. Today we are covering:
Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers
Elon Musk and Mark Cuban Agree on One Thing: Dogecoin Is No Longer a Joke
Critical Zimbra RCE flaw exploited to backdoor servers using emails
Digital bank Revolut slams Meta over approach to scams, says tech giant should compensate victims
Biden exempts some semiconductor factories from environmental reviews
Let’s dive in
Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers
By Joseph Cox via 404 Media
Two Harvard students created I-XRAY, a project that integrates facial recognition technology into Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses, instantly identifying people and pulling personal information from the web.
The project, meant to highlight privacy risks, can reveal a subject's name, home address, phone number, and even family members, raising concerns about anonymity in public spaces.
The creators, AnhPhu Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio, are not releasing their code, emphasizing that their goal is to raise awareness rather than distribute the technology.
𝕏: New from 404 Media: someone put facial recognition on Meta's smart glasses to instantly dox strangers. You look at them, sends face to a facial recognition tool. LLM infers name, sends to people site. Gets phone number, address. I've seen it in action - Joseph Cox (@josephfcox)
Elon Musk and Mark Cuban Agree on One Thing: Dogecoin Is No Longer a Joke
By Teresa Xie via Bloomberg
Elon Musk and Mark Cuban agree that Dogecoin is no longer a joke, with the cryptocurrency gaining popularity among small businesses.
Dogecoin is being accepted as payment at places like Williamsburg Pizza in New York and University Sports Grill in Arizona.
Elon Musk has hinted that Tesla may once again accept Dogecoin for its merchandise.
𝕏: "Dogecoin was invented as a joke, essentially to make fun of cryptocurrency. What would be the most ironic outcome? The currency that started as a joke in fact becomes the real currency. - Tetiana Claudius Nero's Legion (@helloitstanya98)
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Critical Zimbra RCE flaw exploited to backdoor servers using emails
By Bill Toulas via BleepingComputer
Hackers are actively exploiting a critical RCE vulnerability (CVE-2024-45519) in Zimbra email servers, allowing them to backdoor servers simply by sending specially crafted emails.
The vulnerability enables attackers to execute commands through the email's CC field, leading to the installation of a webshell that grants full access to the compromised server.
Zimbra has patched the flaw in the latest versions, and administrators are urged to update immediately or apply mitigation measures such as disabling the postjournal service if not needed.
𝕏: If you're using @Zimbra, mass-exploitation of CVE-2024-45519 has begun. Patch yesterday. Malicious emails are coming from 79.124.49[.]86 and attempting to curl a file from that IP. - Ivan Kwiatkowski (@JusticeRage)
Digital bank Revolut slams Meta over approach to scams, says tech giant should compensate victims
By Ryan Browne via CNBC
Revolut criticized Meta for its insufficient approach to fraud prevention, urging the tech giant to compensate victims of scams originating on its platforms.
Meta's recent partnership with NatWest and Metro Bank on a data-sharing framework to combat fraud was labeled as inadequate by Revolut, which called for more significant actions.
A new U.K. law, effective Oct. 7, will require banks and payment firms to compensate victims of authorized push payment fraud up to £85,000, but Revolut argues that social media platforms like Meta should also be held accountable.
Biden exempts some semiconductor factories from environmental reviews
By David Shepardson via Reuters
President Biden signed legislation exempting some U.S. semiconductor manufacturing facilities from federal environmental reviews, aiming to speed up projects funded by the $52.7 billion CHIPS Act.
The U.S. Commerce Department has allocated over $35 billion for 26 projects, including major grants to Samsung, Intel, TSMC, and Micron Technology to expand chip production in the U.S.
Environmental groups like the Sierra Club oppose the legislation, arguing that reviews are crucial for protecting communities and workers from hazardous contaminants used in semiconductor manufacturing.
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