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You use the Xiaomi mobile phone? You the MIUI system is a 7. 2 The stable version before the system? If Yes, then congratulations you won the lottery. Your phone will likely be hack via a remote code execution vulnerability in the control. ! Millet user Be careful a system vulnerability has been...

Warning: Millions of Xiaomi Phones Vulnerable to Remote Hacking

Millions of Xiaomi smartphones are vulnerable to a dangerous remote code execution RCE vulnerability that could grant attackers complete control of handsets. The vulnerability, now patched, exists in MIUI – Xiaomi's own implementation of the Android operating system – in versions prior to MIUI...

This Android Hacking Group is making $500,000 per day

Own an Android smartphone? Hackers can secretly install malicious apps, games, and pop-up adverts on your smartphone remotely in order to make large sums of money. Security researchers at Cheetah Mobile have uncovered one of the world's largest and most prolific Trojan families, infecting million...

Google finally announces Android N's name and It's not Nutella

No, it's not Nutella. Google has finally announced the official name of the latest version of its Android mobile software, codenamed Android N: "Nougat." Yes, the next version of sugary snack-themed Android and the successor to Android Marshmallow will now be known as Android Nougat, the company...

STOP Rule 41 — FBI should not get Legal Power to Hack Computers Worldwide

We have been hearing a lot about Rule 41 after the US Department of Justice has pushed an update to the rule. The change to the Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure grants the FBI much greater powers to hack legally into any computer across the country, and perhaps anywhere in the...

Mitsubishi Hybrid SUV Hack Puts Drivers At Risk, Says Researcher

Security experts are warning owners of Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles that their cars can be hacked via the automobile’s on-board WiFi network used for remote control of key car features. The hybrid electronic vehicle, which is slated to be sold here in the U.S. starting th...

WordPress Patches WP Mobile Detector Plugin Zero Day

A WordPress plugin was patched Thursday night, close to a week after reports began to surface of public attacks against a zero-day vulnerability. WP Mobile Detector was pulled from the WordPress Plugin Directory once the attacks went public. It was restored last night and users are urged to updat...

Google to Face a Record $3.4 Billion AntiTrust Fine in Europe

Google faces a record anti-trust penalty of about 3 BILLION Euros US$3.4 Billion from the European Commission in the coming days, according to reports. After 7-years of the investigation, the European Commission filed anti-trust charges against Google last year for violating antitrust laws. The...

FCC takes initiative to Speed Up Mobile Security Updates

In Brief The Smartphone users are fed up with slow security updates, so two United States federal agencies have launched an official inquiry to know how manufacturers and carriers deal with mobile phone security updates and what they are doing to roll out patches as quickly as possible. The...

Security Advisory - XSS Vulnerability in the Email App of Huawei Smartphone

There is a vulnerability due to the lack of output encoding for some particular characters in the email APP built in the affected Smart Phones. A successful exploitation of the vulnerability could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to perform a cross-site scripting XSS attack and lead to...

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...

California Kills Phone Decryption Bill

Civil liberty groups and tech firms are celebrating the defeat of a controversial California bill that would have forced phone makers to decrypt their devices by court order. The proposed legislation, AB 1681, died when lawmakers refused to give the bill a vote. But opponents of the bill, who...

CVE-2016-1496

The graphics driver in Huawei P8 smartphones with software GRA-TL00 before GRA-TL00C01B230, GRA-CL00 before GRA-CL00C92B230, GRA-CL10 before GRA-CL10C92B230, GRA-UL00 before GRA-UL00C00B230, and GRA-UL10 before GRA-UL10C00B230 allows attackers to cause a denial of service system crash via a craft...

CVE-2015-8681

The CVE-2015-8681 entry describes an interface access control vulnerability in the ovisp driver affecting Huawei P8 (GRA-TL00/GRA-CL00/GRA-CL10/GRA-UL00/GRA-UL10 variants) and Mate S (CRR-TL00/CRR-UL00/CRR-CL00 families). A crafted app with camera permission can cause a denial of service (system ...

Garmin Smartphone Link - Customized SSL, Exported components, External URLs vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Garmin Smartphone Link published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Smartphone Hilfe - Corrupted files, Dangerous filesystem permissions, External URLs vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Smartphone Hilfe published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

TV Manager für Smartphones - External URLs, SD-card access, Unsafe deleting vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application TV Manager für Smartphones published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Amazon Backtracks On Encryption Removal

Amazon reversed course on its unpopular decision to remove encryption from its Fire OS 5 tablets. Over the weekend, Amazon said, customers’ device-level encryption support will return this spring. The move comes after Amazon customers and privacy activists expressed outrage over the company’s...

How To Keep Your Android Phone Secure

As the number of threats is on the rise, Android platform is no longer safe, which isn't a surprise to anyone. Most of us are usually worried more about the security of our desktops or laptops and forget to think about the consequences our smartphones can make if compromised or stolen. Unlike...

Nissan Car Hack Allowed Remote Access To Car

Automaker Nissan deactivated a remote access feature that let owners of its Leaf electric car remotely adjust climate controls and check battery status via a smartphone app. The move comes after a security researcher posted his finding regarding a simple hack that allowed anyone with the right Le...