Weekly Cyber Security News 18/02/2022

A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. For a daily selection see our twitter feed at #ionCube24. Those movies where they zoom in and sharpen the CCTV footage to absolute clarity is one step closer! (just kidding):

• Researcher fully recovers text from pixels: how to reverse redaction

There could well have been other things this guy could have done, a jammer was perhaps a little too blunt:

• Dad takes down town’s internet by mistake to get his kids offline

The case involving a journalist who pressed F12 in his browser and discovered PII and was charged for hacking has finally reached the end:

• Journalist won’t be prosecuted for pressing “view source”