Holes in 4G and 5G Networks Could Let Hackers Track Your Location

New research shows how nearby attackers can see where you are, send you spoofed carrier messages, and more...

A week in security (February 18 – 24)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we explored the world of crack hunting, gave you a 101 on the world of bots and their threats and advantages, and took a look at some clever phishing scams. We also explained how a Mac fends off malware, posted a handy “lazy person's guide to cybersecurity,” and du...

New Attacks Against 4G, 5G Mobile Networks Re-Enable IMSI Catchers

At NDSS Symposium 2019, a group of university researchers yesterday revealed newly discovered cellular network vulnerabilities that impact both 4G and 5G LTE protocols. According to a paper published by the researchers, "Privacy Attacks to the 4G and 5G Cellular Paging Protocols Using Side Channe...

New Attacks Against 4G, 5G Mobile Networks Re-Enable IMSI Catchers

At NDSS Symposium 2019, a group of university researchers yesterday revealed newly discovered cellular network vulnerabilities that impact both 4G and 5G LTE protocols. According to a paper published by the researchers, "Privacy Attacks to the 4G and 5G Cellular Paging Protocols Using Side Channe...

How to Stop Facebook App From Tracking Your Location In the Background

Every app installed on your smartphone with permission to access location service "can" continually collect your real-time location secretly, even in the background when you do not use them. Do you know? — Installing the Facebook app on your Android and iOS smartphones automatically gives the...

How to Stop Facebook App From Tracking Your Location In the Background

Every app installed on your smartphone with permission to access location service "can" continually collect your real-time location secretly, even in the background when you do not use them. Do you know? — Installing the Facebook app on your Android and iOS smartphones automatically gives the...

Reverse Location Search Warrants

The police are increasingly getting search warrants for information about all cell phones in a certain location at a certain time: Police departments across the country have been knocking at Google's door for at least the last two years with warrants to tap into the company's extensive stores of...

Directory Traversal

wordpress is vulnerable to directory traversal. A privileged user with permissions to crop an image is able to abuse the vulnerability to write an image to an arbitrary location on the file system using the ../ characters in the file name...

Android Users: Check This Facebook Location Privacy Setting ASAP

Android users can now stop Facebook from tracking their location when they aren't using the Facebook app...

February 19, 2019—KB4487016 (Preview of Monthly Rollup)

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Critical OkCupid Flaw Exposed Daters to App Takeovers

A critical flaw in the OkCupid app has been found that could allow a bad actor to steal credentials, launch man-in-the-middle attacks or completely compromise the victim’s application. This is separate from the OKCupid account-takeover incident reported earlier in the week, but it does fit the...

Lenovo Watch X Riddled with Security Vulnerabilities

Researchers are raking the Lenovo Watch X over the security coals in a report that blasts the device for shipping with a half dozen “disturbing” privacy and security vulnerabilities. The budget $50 smartwatch was introduced in June 2018 and was initially praised for its design, features and...

A week in security (February 4 – 8)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we took a closer look at the technical and reputational challenges for Facebook as it tries to integrate secure messaging across Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram. We explored Google’s latest attempts to change how the public sees—literally—web browser URLs, gave...

An Apple-Hacking Teen, SIM-Swap Indictments, and More Security News This Week

Location data scandals, a Zcash bug, and more of the week's top security news...

Yokogawa Powercert PC parameter setting tool Detection (Windows SMB Login)

Detects the installed version of Yokogawa Powercert PC parameter setting tool for Windows. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only...

OPC UA Local Discovery Server Detection (Windows SMB Login)

Detects the installed version of OPC UA Local Discovery Server for Windows. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Joomla WebMapPlus 1.0 SQL Injection

Exploit Title : Joomla WebMapPlus Components 1.0 SQL Injection Author Discovered By : KingSkrupellos Team : Cyberizm Digital Security Army Date : 04/02/2019 Vendor Homepage : artio.net Software Download Link : github.com/bkulyk/webmapplus.git Software Information Link : github.com/bkulyk/webmappl...

Open Positioner: my new project for tracking IT and security jobs

The idea of my new project is to retrieve the data from job-searching websites and provide better filtering, searching and visualization. I think for the most people who read this, searching for a job in Internet is a pretty common activity. Even if you are not going to change job right now, it...

Crlf injection

www/resource.py in Buildbot before 1.8.1 allows CRLF injection in the Location header of /auth/login and /auth/logout via the redirect parameter. This affects other web sites in the same domain...

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-7313

www/resource.py in Buildbot before 1.8.1 allows CRLF injection in the Location header of /auth/login and /auth/logout via the redirect parameter. This affects other web sites in the same domain...