Uber Now Tracks Your Location Even After Your Ride

Uber was in controversies at the mid of this year for monitoring the battery life of its users, as the company believed that its users were more likely to pay a much higher price to hire a cab when their phone's battery is close to dying. Uber is now tracking you even when your ride is over, and,...

Zizai Tech Nut Plaintext Password Vulnerability

Zizai Tech Nut is a Nut smart finder and anti-loss patch product from China's Zizai Tech. Zizai Tech Nut stores passwords in plaintext. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to track a user's location...

Hackers can spy on your calls and track location, using just your phone number

In Brief The famous ‘60 Minutes’ television show shocked some viewers Sunday evening when a team of German hackers demonstrated how they spied on an iPhone used by U.S. Congressman, then recorded his phone calls and tracked his movement through Los Angeles. Hackers leverage a security flaw in SS7...

A common GPS satellite positioning platform vulnerability disaster the user's location information in an emergency-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Recently, in the news of the exposure of the many by the GPS positioning device, tracking the abduction of the event http://news.xinhuanet.com/legal/2015-11/15/c1284295262.htm in. Many users have to consult, there is no method for detecting it? So in the market to buy some GPS positioning...

Cisco Emergency Responder Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability (CNVD-2015-08365)

Cisco Emergency Responder's real-time location-address tracking database and enhanced routing capabilities can transfer emergency calls directly to the appropriate Public Safety Answering Point PASP based on the caller's location. A security vulnerability exists in the Web framework of Cisco...

For Better Privacy & Security, Change these iOS 9 Settings Immediately

iOS 9 is out, and it's time to update your iPhone or iPad to the latest version of Apple's mobile operating system. The new iOS is better, faster, and more efficient than its predecessors, with a number of new features and improvements including enhanced multitasking for iPad, Proactive Assistant...

Facebook Fired An Intern After He Exposes How to Track Users' Location

Previously, we posted about a privacy issue in Facebook messenger; Aran Khanna, a Harvard University student, discovered ‘A Marauder’s Map’ that could sense and give the geolocations of your friends on the messenger. Khanna had received an opportunity to work as an intern for Facebook… …But desti...

This Facebook Hack Allows You to Track Your Friends On Map

Remember the magical Marauder’s Map from the Harry Potter books that reveal the whereabouts of characters as they roam classrooms and the halls of Hogwarts school? A student developer from Cambridge has created a Chrome extension that works similar and also named it Marauder’s Map. The extension...

Your Location has been Shared 5,398 Times in Last 14 Days

Do you realize how often your smartphone is sharing your location data with various companies? It is more than 5000 times in just two weeks. That is little Shocking but True! A recent study by the security researchers from Carnegie Mellon reveals that a number of smartphone applications collect...

Is It Possible to Track Smartphone Location By Monitoring Battery Usage?

Data leaks through power consumption? Don’t be surprised because security researchers have discovered a way to track your every move by looking at your Android smartphone's consumption of the battery power,even if you have GPS access unable. Researchers at Stanford University and Israeli Defense...

Visa Wants To Track Your Smartphone to Prevent Credit Card Fraud

If you are a traveler and loves to travel then you must be annoyed of those calls you sometimes get from your bank when buying things far from home, and the most annoyed part is when the company won't approve the transaction as it fears your card was stolen. VISA MOBILE LOCATION CONFIRMATION APP...

Cellular Privacy, SS7 Security Shattered at 31C3

The recently concluded Chaos Communications Congress 31c3 in Hamburg, Germany was an all-out assault on cellular call privacy and security. Of particular interest was the SS7 protocol used to route calls between switching centers. Researchers, doing parallel research as it turns out, found gaping...

Ekahau Real-Time Location Tracking System weak encryption

It's possible to read and generate messages...

Xsser Trojan Spies on Jailbroken iOS Devices in Hong Kong

An iOS version of an Android espionage Trojan targeting activists and protestors in Hong Kong has been discovered on the command and control server hosting the Android malware. The iOS version, a mobile remote access Trojan dubbed Xsser by Lacoon Mobile Security, affects only jailbroken iOS...

How a Cell Phone User Can be Secretly Tracked Across the Globe

Since we are living in an era of Mass surveillance conducted by Government as well as private sector industries, and with the boom in surveillance technology, we should be much worried about our privacy. According to the companies that create surveillance solutions for law enforcement and...

Study: Uyghur Remain in Crosshairs of Targeted Attacks

It’s no secret that activists groups supporting the Uyghur and other ethnic minorities living either in exile or in oppressed nations have been in the crosshairs of targeted attacks for years. Regimes use phishing emails, other social engineering tactics, and drive-by downloads to infect computer...

Kaspersky, Citizen Lab Uncover HackingTeam Mobile Malware

Controversial spyware commercially developed by Italy’s HackingTeam and sold to governments and law enforcement for the purpose of surveillance, has a global command and control infrastructure and for the first time, security experts have insight into how its mobile malware components work...

Google Play App Permissions Privacy, Security Concerns

Google’s revamped app permissions for Google Play are not being well received by Android users. Reddit threads are rife with adjectives such as “stupid” and “dangerous,” primarily because Google’s attempt to simplify permissions granted to automatically updated applications may in fact expose use...

CO-TRAVELER : NSA’s Cellphone Location Tracking Tool gathering 5 Billion records a day

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NSA: Steve Jobs is the real Big Brother and iPhone buyers are zombies

As we reported yesterday that, your Smartphone is a goldmine for the US National Security Agency NSA, they have the full access to your Data available on your Smartphones including Android, iPhone and Blackberry. But among other Smartphones, iPhone apparently is the most popular with the National...