CVE-2019-5246

Smartphones with software of ELLE-AL00B 9.1.0.109C00E106R1P21, 9.1.0.113C00E110R1P21, 9.1.0.125C00E120R1P21, 9.1.0.135C00E130R1P21, 9.1.0.153C00E150R1P21, 9.1.0.155C00E150R1P21, 9.1.0.162C00E160R2P1 have an insufficient verification vulnerability. The system does not verify certain parameters...

CVE-2019-5246

Smartphones with software of ELLE-AL00B 9.1.0.109C00E106R1P21, 9.1.0.113C00E110R1P21, 9.1.0.125C00E120R1P21, 9.1.0.135C00E130R1P21, 9.1.0.153C00E150R1P21, 9.1.0.155C00E150R1P21, 9.1.0.162C00E160R2P1 have an insufficient verification vulnerability. The system does not verify certain parameters...

CVE-2019-5213

CVE-2019-5213 affects Huawei Honor Play Cornell-AL00A devices running versions earlier than 9.1.0.321 (C00E320R1P1T8). The issue stems from a logic judgment error that enables an attacker to modify alarm clock settings without unlocking the screen. Huawei PSIRT notes the vulnerability and has rel...

CVE-2019-5228

The CVE-2019-5228 entry describes a race condition in the detection module of Huawei P30, P30 Pro, and Honor V20 devices prior to specific firmware versions (ELLE-AL00B 9.1.0.193, VOGUE-AL00A 9.1.0.193, Princeton-AL10B 9.1.0.233). The vulnerability arises from the system not locking certain funct...

Samsung Rolls Out Fix For Galaxy S10 Fingerprint Sensor Glitch

Samsung has reportedly started rolling out a software patch for the Galaxy S10 and Note10, addressing glitches in both phone models that allow the bypass of their built-in fingerprint authentication sensors. The fix comes after Samsung admitted last week that anyone can bypass the Galaxy S10...

Beware of Stalking Apps

The Federal Trade Commission FTC has released an article warning consumers of “stalking apps”—spyware that secretly monitors smartphones. These apps can share information like call history, text messages, photos, GPS locations, and browser history without the user's knowledge. Although this can b...

The Perils of Distracted Fighting

Opinion: Without proper guidelines, smartphones on the battlefield may kill more soldiers than they save...

A Simple Way to Make It Harder for Mobile Ads to Track You

Beating back the scourge of online ad tracking entirely is almost impossible. But you can futz with your smartphone's "ad ID" to slow it down...

A Feminist Take on Information Privacy

Maria Farrell has a really interesting framing of information/device privacy: What our smartphones and relationship abusers share is that they both exert power over us in a world shaped to tip the balance in their favour, and they both work really, really hard to obscure this fact and keep us...

Security Advisory - Race Condition Vulnerability on Several Smartphones

There is a race condition vulnerability on certain detection module of smartphone. The system does not lock certain function properly, when the function is called by multiple processes could cause out of bound write. An attacker tricks the user into installing a malicious application, successful...

Multiple Huawei Product Version Downgrade Vulnerabilities (CNVD-2019-30711)

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Security Advisory - Brute Forcing Encrypted Backup Data Vulnerability on Huawei Smartphones

There is a vulnerability that Huawei smartphone user backup information can be obtained by brute forcing the password for encrypting the backup. Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2019-08102 This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE ID: CVE-2019-5263. Huawei has...

Thumbnails of files leaked via Android content provider (NC-SA-2019-007)

If an attacker has physical access to an Android smartphone without a screen lock, but with nextcloud installed and set up, he can easily access the nextcloud-files even if the nextcloud app is locked with a fingerprint or pin...

Bypass lock protection in Android app (NC-SA-2019-008)

If an attacker has physical access to an Android smartphone without a screen lock, but with nextcloud installed and set up, they can circumvent the passcode protection by repeatedly opening and closing the app in a very short time...

On the IoT road: perks, benefits and security of moving smartly

Kaspersky has repeatedly investigated security issues related to IoT technologies for instance, here, or here. Earlier this year our experts have even gained foothold in the security of biomechanical prosthetic devices. The same implies to smart car security: our own research has indicated that...

Huawei Honor Magic 2 Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Huawei Honor Magic 2 is a smartphone from Chinese company Huawei Huawei. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the secure keyboard feature in previous versions of the Huawei Honor Magic 2 Tony-AL00B 9.1.0.216C00E214R2P1, which stems from the program's failure to properly restrict syst...

Spanish Soccer League App Spies on Fans

The Spanish Soccer League's smartphone app spies on fans in order to find bars that are illegally streaming its games. The app listens with the microphone for the broadcasts, and then uses geolocation to figure out where the phone is. The Spanish data protection agency has ordered the league to...

9 risky apps that you need to monitor on your kids’ smartphone

By Owais Sultan Parents should know if their under 18 child has these apps on their smartphone - No underage child should use these apps. Apart from being a great invention, smartphones are also taken as a most apt tool for killing time. Kids between the age of 11-19 spend 90 percent of their tim...

CVE-2019-5216

There is a race condition vulnerability on Huawei Honor V10 smartphones versions earlier than Berkeley-AL20 9.0.0.156C00E156R2P14T8, Honor 10 smartphones versions earlier than Columbia-AL10B 9.0.0.156C00E156R1P20T8 and Honor Play smartphones versions earlier than Cornell-AL00A...

CVE-2019-5296

Mate20 Huawei smartphones versions earlier than HMA-AL00C00B175 have an out-of-bounds read vulnerability. An attacker with a high permission runs some specific commands on the smartphone. Due to insufficient input verification, successful exploit may cause out-of-bounds read of the memory and the...