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Mollitiam Industries is the Newest Cyberweapons Arms Manufacturer
Wired is reporting on a company called Mollitiam Industries: Marketing materials left exposed online by a third-party claim Mollitiams interception products, dubbed "Invisible Man" and "Night Crawler," are capable of remotely accessing a targets files, location, and covertly turning on a devices...
Your Amazon Devices to Automatically Share Your Wi-Fi With Neighbors
Starting June 8, Amazon will automatically enable a feature on its family of hardware devices, including Echo speakers, Ring Video Doorbells, Ring Floodlight Cams, and Ring Spotlight Cams, that will share a small part of your Internet bandwidth with nearby neighbors — unless you choose to opt-out...
Apple's Find My Network Can be Abused to Exfiltrate Data From Nearby Devices
Latest research has demonstrated a new exploit that enables arbitrary data to be uploaded from devices that are not connected to the Internet by simply sending "Find My" Bluetooth broadcasts to nearby Apple devices. "It's possible to upload arbitrary data from non-internet-connected devices by...
Groups Call for Ethical Guidelines on Location-Tracking Tech
The Locus Charter asks companies to commit to 10 principles, including minimizing data collection and actively seeking consent from users...
Security Analysis of Apple’s “Find My…” Protocol
Interesting research: "Who Can Find My Devices? Security and Privacy of Apples Crowd-Sourced Bluetooth Location Tracking System": Abstract: Overnight, Apple has turned its hundreds-of-million-device ecosystem into the worlds largest crowd-sourced location tracking network called offline finding O...
Apple’s Device Location-Tracking System Could Expose User Identities
Two vulnerabilities in a crowdsourced location-tracking system that helps users find Apple devices even when they’re offline could expose the identity of users, research claim. Offline Finding, a proprietary app introduced by Apple in 2019 for its iOS, macOS and watchOS platforms, enables the...
Bug in Apple's Find My Feature Could've Exposed Users' Location Histories
Cybersecurity researchers on Thursday disclosed two distinct design and implementation flaws in Apple's crowdsourced Bluetooth location tracking system that can lead to a location correlation attack and unauthorized access to the location history of the past seven days, thereby deanonymizing user...
High-Severity Cisco Flaw Found in CMX Software For Retailers
A high-severity flaw in Cisco’s smart Wi-Fi solution for retailers could allow a remote attacker to alter the password of any account user on affected systems. The vulnerability is part of a number of patches issued by Cisco addressing 67 high-severity CVEs on Wednesday. This included flaws found...
How Your Digital Trails Wind Up in the Police’s Hands
Phone calls. Web searches. Location tracks. Smart speaker requests. They’ve become crucial tools for law enforcement, while users often are unaware...
Apple, Google to ban X-Mode’s location tracking apps from stores
By Deeba Ahmed The decision came after a media outlet reported about data gathering tactics of location data collection firm X-Mode Social. Find out why. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Apple, Google to ban X-Modes location tracking apps from stores...
Waze app vulnerability allowed users’ real-time location tracking
By Waqas Waze app has more than 130 million active monthly users globally and that makes it a lucrative target for hackers. Here's what happened. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Waze app vulnerability allowed users real-time location tracking...
SAS@Home is back this fall
The world during the pandemic prepares many surprises for us. Most of them are certainly unpleasant: health risks, inability to travel or meet old friends. One of these unpleasant surprises awaited us in the early spring, when the organizing team of the beloved SAS conference were forced to...
IBM Settles Lawsuit Over Weather Channel App Data Privacy
IBM, the owner of the Weather Channel mobile app, has reached a settlement with the Los Angeles city attorney’s office after a 2019 lawsuit alleged that the app was deceiving its users in how it was using their geolocation data. The 2019 lawsuit claimed, the app’s permission prompt for users to...
Flaws in Samsung Phones Exposed Android Users to Remote Attacks
New research disclosed a string of severe security vulnerabilities in the 'Find My Mobile '—an Android app that comes pre-installed on most Samsung smartphones—that could have allowed remote attackers to track victims' real-time location, monitor phone calls, and messages, and even delete data...
Flaws in Samsung Phones Exposed Android Users to Remote Attacks
New research disclosed a string of severe security vulnerabilities in the 'Find My Mobile'—an Android app that comes pre-installed on most Samsung smartphones—that could have allowed remote attackers to track victims' real-time location, monitor phone calls, and messages, and even delete data...
US firm accused of secretly installing location tracking SDK in mobile apps
By Zara Khan AUS government contractor 'Anomaly Six' has location tracking software hidden in more than 500 mobile apps. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: US firm accused of secretly installing location tracking SDK in mobile apps...
Collecting and Selling Mobile Phone Location Data
The Wall Street Journal has an article about a company called Anomaly Six LLC that has an SDK that's used by "more than 500 mobile applications." Through that SDK, the company collects location data from users, which it then sells. Anomaly Six is a federal contractor that provides...
Google Bans Stalkerware Ads – With a Loophole
Google will soon prohibit ads on its platform that promote stalkerware products and services – but the tech giant’s ban comes with a catch that some security experts worry will render it ineffective. Starting August 2020, Google’s ads policy will be updated to ban advertisements for stalkerware,...
Google Location Tracking Lambasted in Arizona Lawsuit
Google has been hit by a lawsuit alleging that it violates user privacy by collecting location data via various means – and claiming that Google makes it nearly “impossible” for users to opt out of such data tracking. The lawsuit, filed by Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, alleges that Goog...