Research Outlines New Deep Freeze Data Recovery Technique on Android Phone

Hackers and data recovery specialists alike could soon be turning to a new technique that under the right conditions can allow for the harvesting of personal information from phones, even after they’ve been frozen. A group of German researchers from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg have...

CVE-2012-6336

The Missing Device feature in Lookout allows physically proximate attackers to provide arbitrary location data via a "commonly available simple GPS location spoofer."...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Missing Device feature in Lookout allows physically proximate attackers to provide arbitrary location data via a "commonly available simple GPS location spoofer."...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Track My Mobile feature in the SamsungDive subsystem for Android on Samsung Galaxy devices does not properly implement Location APIs, which allows physically proximate attackers to provide arbitrary location data via a "commonly available simple GPS location spoofer."...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Anti-theft service in AVG AntiVirus for Android allows physically proximate attackers to provide arbitrary location data via a "commonly available simple GPS location spoofer."...

CVE-2012-6334

The Track My Mobile feature in the SamsungDive subsystem for Android on Samsung Galaxy devices does not properly implement Location APIs, which allows physically proximate attackers to provide arbitrary location data via a "commonly available simple GPS location spoofer."...

CVE-2012-6335

The CVE-2012-6335 entry concerns AVG AntiVirus for Android: the Anti-theft service can be manipulated by a physically proximate attacker to supply arbitrary location data via a simple GPS location spoofer, potentially affecting app behavior. Impact described as location data spoofing with evidenc...

CVE-2012-6336

The Missing Device feature in Lookout allows physically proximate attackers to provide arbitrary location data via a "commonly available simple GPS location spoofer."...

CVE-2012-6334

The CVE-2012-6334 entry concerns Samsung Galaxy devices' SamsungDive Track My Mobile feature on Android. The vulnerability arises because Location APIs are not properly implemented in Track My Mobile, enabling physically proximate attackers to inject arbitrary location data via a simple GPS locat...

CVE-2012-6335: Undefined Security Weakness

The Anti-theft service in AVG AntiVirus for Android allows physically proximate attackers to provide arbitrary location data via a "commonly available simple GPS location spoofer."...

CVE-2012-6336: Undefined Security Weakness

The Missing Device feature in Lookout allows physically proximate attackers to provide arbitrary location data via a "commonly available simple GPS location spoofer."...

GPS based tracking service provided by Samsung vulnerable to thieves

Samsung which is currently believed to the highest Smartphones Seller in the World is now providing a Remote tracking solution in all its smartphones to Track the lost phone with the name "Samsung Dive". The Service is based on the Architecture which primarily acquires precise location of the sma...

GPS based tracking service provided by Samsung vulnerable to thieves

Samsung which is currently believed to the highest Smartphones Seller in the World is now providing a Remote tracking solution in all its smartphones to Track the lost phone with the name "Samsung Dive". The Service is based on the Architecture which primarily acquires precise location of the sma...

Sandia Lab's MegaDroid Project Builds Out Massive Android Test Platform

It might sound like a security researcher’s worst nightmare to string together 300,000 virtual instances of the Android OS, but for scientists at Sandia National Laboratories, it’s just another day. The Department of Energy-sponsored national security-focused laboratory released the MegaDroid...

New Trojan Spreading On App Store and Google Play

A new Trojan that uploads users’ phonebooks to a remote server is making the rounds, circulating on both Apple’s App Store and the Google Play marketplaces, according to research by Kaspersky Lab posted on the Securelist web site earlier today. Kaspersky virus researchers, responding to a request...

Drones can be hijacked by terrorist, Researchers says Vulnerability Exist

Drones can be hijacked by terrorist, Researchers says Vulnerability Exist Fox News is reporting that researchers say that terrorists or drug gangs, with the right kind of equipment could turn the drones into "suicide" weapons. A University of Texas researcher illustrated that fact in a series of...

MobileSpy Android|iPhone|W7P|sOS - Web Vulnerabilities

Exploit for hardware platform in category web applications Title: ====== MobileSpy Android|iPhone|W7P|sOS - Web Vulnerabilities Common Vulnerability Scoring System: ==================================== 7.3 Introduction: ============= Mobile Spy defines the latest in high-tech cell phone...

Senator Seeks More Info On DOJ Location Tracking Practices

Senator Al Franken D-MN is demanding answers to questions about the U.S. Department of Justice DOJ practice of gathering data from wireless providers in order to monitor individuals’ movements using mobile phone location data. Franken released a copy of a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder on...

Forensic FOCA - Power of Metadata in digital forensics

Forensic FOCA - Power of Metadata in digital forensics Most of the e ort in today's digital forensics community lies in the retrieval and analysis of existing information from computing systems. Metadata is data about data. Metadata plays a number of important roles in computer forensics. It can...

FBI track Anonymous hacker using his girlfriend's boobs

FBI track Anonymous hacker using his girlfriend's boobs The FBI swooped on Higinio O Ochoa III after he posted the snap, which included a gloating message to his online victims.He took the picture on his iPhone and posted it on Twitter without realising it contained GPS data pointing directly to...