Threat Source newsletter (Oct. 6, 2022) — Continuing down the Privacy Policy rabbit hole

By Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter. As I wrote about last week, I’ve been diving a lot into apps’ privacy policies recently. And I was recently made aware of a new type of app I never knew existed — family trackers. There are countless mobile apps for...

CVE-2022-32883

A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions. This issue is fixed in macOS Monterey 12.6, iOS 15.7 and iPadOS 15.7, iOS 16, macOS Big Sur 11.7. An app may be able to read sensitive location information...

CVE-2022-32883

A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions. This issue is fixed in macOS Monterey 12.6, iOS 15.7 and iPadOS 15.7, iOS 16, macOS Big Sur 11.7. An app may be able to read sensitive location information...

Apple macOS Big Sur 安全漏洞

Apple macOS Big Sur is the 17th major version of Apple's macOS, the operating system used by Apple Inc. for MACs in the United States. A security vulnerability exists in Apple macOS Big Sur versions prior to 11.7, which stems from the fact that applications may be able to read sensitive location...

PT-2022-26606 · Apple · Macos Monterey +3

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: macOS Big Sur versions prior to 11.7 macOS Monterey versions prior to 12.6 macOS Ventura versions prior to 13 Description: An access issue was addressed with improved access restrictions, allowing an app to potentially read sensitive location...

A week in security (August 29 - September 4)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Twilio data breach turns out to be more elaborate than suspected Playing Doom on a John Deere tractor with Sick Codes: Lock and Code S03E18 Chromium browsers can write to the system clipboard without your permission British Airways customers targeted in lost luggag...

FTC Sues Data Broker Over Selling Location Data for Hundreds of Millions of Phones

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission FTC on Monday said it filed a lawsuit against Kochava, a location data broker, for collecting and selling precise geolocation data gathered from consumers' mobile devices. The complaint alleges that the U.S. company amasses a "wealth of information" about users b...

CVE-2022-20352

In addProviderRequestListener of LocationManagerService.java, there is a possible way to learn which packages request location information due to a missing permission check. This could lead to local information disclosure with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not...

The FTC will go after companies misusing location, health, and other sensitive data

After the overturning of Roe V Wade, many feared that using, having access to, and sharing reproductive and sexual health data—once done freely—would be outlawed with the practice of abortion in many states. To protect such data from falling into the wrong hands, Congresswoman Sara Jacobs D-CA...

CVE-2022-26725

A logic issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in macOS Monterey 12.4. Photo location information may persist after it is removed with Preview Inspector...

Data Brokers Track Abortion Clinic Visits for Anyone to Buy

Plus: Russia rerouted internet in occupied Ukraine, Grindr sold its users' location data to ad networks, and more...

CVE-2022-28780

Improper access control vulnerability in Weather prior to SMR May-2022 Release 1 allows that attackers can access location information that set in Weather without permission. The patch adds proper protection to prevent access to location information...

CVE-2022-28780

Improper access control vulnerability in Weather prior to SMR May-2022 Release 1 allows that attackers can access location information that set in Weather without permission. The patch adds proper protection to prevent access to location information...

CVE-2021-3720

An information disclosure vulnerability was reported in the Time Weather system widget on Legion Phone Pro L79031 and Legion Phone2 Pro L70081 that could allow other applications to access device GPS data...

Limiting your exposure to location data resellers

Location data is valuable, just ask Huq Industries, who make a living out of selling your location information, then found that the apps they bought it from hadn’t asked the end users permission to have it! Naughty! The organisations they sell it to use it for better marketing, to get a better...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2019-16256

SIMalliance Toolbox Browser contains an command injection vulnerability that could allow remote attackers to retrieve location and IMEI information or execute a range of other attacks by modifying the attack message...

A Simple Software Fix Could Limit Location Data Sharing

Carriers know where you are every time your phone reconnects to the cell network—but with Pretty Good Phone Privacy, they wouldn’t have to...

De-anonymization Story

This is important: Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill was general secretary of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops USCCB, effectively the highest-ranking priest in the US who is not a bishop, before records of Grindr usage obtained from data brokers was correlated with his apartment, place of work,...

Commercial Location Data Used to Out Priest

A Catholic priest was outed through commercially available surveillance data. Vice has a good analysis: The news starkly demonstrates not only the inherent power of location data, but how the chance to wield that power has trickled down from corporations and intelligence agencies to essentially a...

CVE-2021-0518

In Wi-Fi, there is a possible leak of location-sensitive data due to a missing permission check. This could lead to local information disclosure with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions: Android-13Android ID: A-176541...